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Film Appreciation: “Raise the Red Lantern” at 35 — The Aesthetics of Confinement

November 15, 2026
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Restored in 4K and screening at the Brattle Theatre, Zhang Yimou’s sumptuous, suffocating masterpiece turns household rituals into instruments of control.

Film Reviews: Escaping Putin’s Russia, Serving Vichy France — Three Films at the New York Film Festival

October 18, 2026
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Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.

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