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There’s a scene in Memoria, the spellbinding new film from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, in which Tilda Swinton’s Jessica struggles to describe a sound that she’s been hearing in her head, owing to many sleepless nights and involuntary…

For the longest time, I had sworn off doing a PhD. The idea of a PhD, as a friend once said to me, will haunt us until we either get one or we die. I had believed that if I wound up doing one, something had gone wrong. Pursuing a PhD meant…

Birds of Passage is a gangster film. Yet, by being set in a culture unfamiliar to many Western viewers, directors Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego (Embrace of the Serpent) expand the scope of what movies of the genre can do. Set in the…

History in February: It’s the month of Valentine’s Day, usually the month of Ash Wednesday – hence Pancake Tuesday – and every four years, the 29th of February, when women traditionally can propose to the man of their choice. But what else…