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American novelist, author of Telex from Cuba (2008), The Flamethrowers (2013), The Mars Room (2018) and Creation Lake (2024).
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3 WomenOther Robert Altman
3 Women, filmed around various desert locales in Coachella Valley, is mesmerizingly weird. It’s lively and funny and at the same time haunting and melancholic.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Rachel Kushner, the entry for 3 Women.
2021-05-20·criterion.com ↗
Black GirlOther Ousmane Sembène
Legendary Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène’s first feature film, Black Girl, is as visually perfect as the best of Antonioni, and as with Antonioni, each scene adds to our sense of dread.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Rachel Kushner, the entry for Black Girl.
2021-05-20·criterion.com ↗
Hiroshima mon amourOther Alain Resnais
The common interpretation of Hiroshima mon amour that it was “anti-nuclear,” a treatise on peace, is not quite correct. It’s more accurate to say that Duras condemned human suffering, but then again, she framed it as the only vital condition for the possibility of meaning. This movie has an unsettling moral ambivalence that leaves me unsure and yet draws me to watch it repeatedly.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Rachel Kushner, the entry for Hiroshima mon amour.
2021-05-20·criterion.com ↗
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