In a new short presented by the New York Times, filmmaker and 2012 MacArthur Fellow Laura Poitras documents the return of Adnan Latif’s body to Yemen from Guantanamo, where he was imprisoned without charge for 11 years.

The 2013 Oscar nominations held few big surprises, save one: provocateur Michael Haneke’s Amour received nominations in five categories, including best director. It’s only the third film to be nominated both in Best Foreign Language and Best Picture catgeories.

In Still Dots, our yearlong dive into the deep end of Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949), I became so obsessed I began to live and breathe Vienna. So much so, in fact, that I went so far as to draw a few pages of a comic book based on one of the film’s most […] In Still Dots, our yearlong dive into the deep end of Carol Reed’s The Third Man(1949), I became so obsessed I began to live and breathe Vienna. So…

November 29 was a momentous day: After one year and 102 blog posts, Still Dots was complete. Since December 13, 2011, we’d been pulling one frame for every 62 seconds of screen time in Carol Reed’s The Third Man and writing a biweekly analysis of it. With more than 125,000 words behind us, we reflect on what this micro-analysis taught us—and how it might suggest a new kind of film criticism.

2012 festival favorite Tabu, by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (The Face You Deserve, Our Beloved Month Of August), will have its area premiere at the Walker this weekend. Taking its title from F. W. Murnau’s 1931 film, Tabu contemplates the sublime connections between memory and cinema, a subject that Gomes has spoken about at length […] 2012 festival favorite Tabu, by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (The…

Despite implicating violent media in the recent spate of mass killings, the NRA has for two years run an exhibition called Hollywood Guns, which features 125 guns from films including Machete, Dirty Harry, and Lethal Weapon.

The water cooler always buzzes with talk of movies, and it can reach a fever pitch in the Film/Video Department, occasionally roping in people from other departments. The lists below reflect the camaraderie, belligerence, and free-form sharing of these conversations as we digest the year in film each in our own special way. Courtney Sheehan Film/Video Intern […] The water cooler always buzzes with talk…

Kickstarter reports that more than $100 million has been pledged to independent film projects through the crowdfunding site since its 2009 launch. Of that amount, around $85 million has been collected, more than half of which went to documentaries.

“The official cinema all over the world is running out of breath. It is morally corrupt, esthetically obsolete, thematically superficial, temperamentally boring.” So declared the New American Cinema Group in a manifesto sent out in 1962. Fifty years later, Genevieve Yue looks back on a notoriously turbulent decade through the work of underground filmmakers of the day.