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Seventy-five years after the Hollywood Blacklist, the ‘Hollywood Ten’ screenwriter’s legacy gets its due.

Los Angeles is a vast city that has been the setting for a wide variety of movies over the course of history. Here are the 15 best movies about life in LA.

In our biggest ever poll in 2012, 846 critics, programmers and curators nominated ten best movies ever made – and the results gave us a new top film, ending the 50-year reign of Citizen Kane.

EXAMINING THE ETYMOLOGY of forager reveals that the word has evolved to convey starkly distinct meanings. It appears in fifteenth-century English to describe someone who roves in search of sustenance; a century earlier, the Old French foragier referred to a plunderer. This slippage befits Foragers, 2022, Jumana Manna’s most recent film and the centerpiece of “Break, Take, Erase, Tally,” the Berlin-based Palestinian artist’s current midcareer survey, curated by Ruba Kartrib, at MoMA PS1 i...

Aesthetics and politics: a new reader from The Visible Press offers a bracing introduction to Afterimage's ever-curious, ever-relevant quest for the contours of a radical cinema

Westworld envisions a city without fossil fuels. Why is it so miserable?

There’s a new breed of American comedians using unscripted slices of the real world to make us laugh.

The director Anthony Banua-Simon discusses his documentary about how the lives of Hawaii residents have been affected by tourism.

The California Institute of the Arts Board of Trustees have awarded 14 admired, acclaimed and longtime faculty members emeritus status in recognition of their contributions to CalArts.

Yasujirô Ozu