A Look Back at ‘Black Girl’ and Other Ousmane Sembène Films
At Film Forum, a retrospective of the Senegalese director’s work shows the care he took in telling female stories.
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‘Winter Kills’ Returns in New Print at Film Forum
Part black comedy, part paranoid thriller, the 1979 movie returns after four decades in a new 35 mm print at Film Forum.
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Claire Simon Finds a New Subject: Herself
The French director Claire Simon was making a movie about a Paris hospital when she found out she had cancer. So she became a character in her own film.
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‘The Oak’: A Post-Communist Pinwheel
Lucian Pintilie’s newly restored mad farce, now at Film Forum, paved the way for the Romanian new wave.