Sarah Friedland‘s debut feature Familiar Touch—the Opening Night selection of this year’s New Directors/New Films Festival—is the rare film about aging that bypasses the lurid and the exploitative ...

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Morels sprout in the forests of France from late winter through spring. These mushrooms are rare and elusive to foragers; prized by chefs for their rich, earthy flavor; and toxic if eaten raw or ...

It is not hard to imagine a terrible future. Ours is an age of cynical catastrophism. “How much worse could it get?” is a question no one bothers to ask; a quick scan of the disastrous present gives ...

An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

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