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Editor’s Note
EDITOR’S NOTE
Show Biz Kids • Paul Thomas Anderson on Licorice Pizza
Higher Power • Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta and the Legacy of Nunsploitation
Too Good at Goodbyes • The Souvenir Part II and Joanna Hogg’s Cinema of Memory
The Flower and the Braided Rope • Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog
The Other Half Is You • Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato and Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession
What Lies Beyond • Michelangelo Frammartino on Il buco
CINEMA STUDIES
Looking for Trouble • Interventionist Documentaries and the Practice of Conflict
In a Year of Six Kostrovs
Grace Notes and Ghosts • Jan Troell’s The Emigrants and The New Land
Benediction • Terence Davies, UK/US
Earwig • Lucile Hadihalilovic, UK/France/Belgium
Espíritu sagrado • Chema García Ibarra, Spain
El Gran Movimiento • Kiro Russo, Bolivia/France/Qatar/Switzerland
A Night of Knowing Nothing • Payal Kapadia, India/France
Outside Noise • Ted Fendt, Germany/South Korea/Austria
The Space Between • The Films of Borhane Alaouié
The Gift of Charity • Faraz Anoushapour, Parastoo Anoushapour, and Ryan Ferko’s Charity and Surface Rites
Musique concrète • Lucy Raven’s Ready Mix
Deliveries of Smart Dialogue by Dieterle and Others
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
CRY MACHO
Ken Jacobs’ Blonde Cobra