Film

I saw myself in the loneliness of her passing, and studied it for ways to avoid the same fate. 

Watching Irrfan Khan over the years.

What does it take to preserve an independent filmmaker's oeuvre?

A calculated veneer of identity is our most valuable modern resource.

Matsuda Eiko's career illustrates the erasure that occurs when women's creative work is falsely reduced to autobiography.

Susan Peters was an Academy Award-nominated actress, a trainee pilot, a medical student. But it was a shooting incident in 1945 that would come to define her.

In their decades of collaboration, the company created films tethered in a new language for what it means to be a human of multiple descriptions.

In her fifty years on screen, her palpable desperation to be liked has moved audiences or grated on them. But she projects something constant and knowable—the marker of a true star.

Rose McGowan suffered from the worst of the Hollywood machine and reclaimed her body and her narrative. But her all-for-one methods have alienated fellow activists.