Union Cab Cars jam the Nines' loading zone on Southwest Morrison Street, so Berhan double parks his Prius. "What's up?" a doorman calls out as Berhan rolls down the window. "You have any customer?" Berhan asks. "No," the doorman says. He smacks his gum, impatient. "Uber and Lyft?" "Oh yeah," the…

The camera loves nothing the way it loves the desert. The sun across an uninterrupted sky; sand or clay swallowing up the light the same way it swallowed up the water. A desert suggests a story before anything enters the frame. It’s a landscape of the psyche that presents an essential cinematic…

Max Philipson CAÑAFISTOLA RANCH, Venezuela— With dozens of bird species nesting in its trees, congregations of caiman peering from its ponds, and 15-foot anacondas lurking by the roadside, the Venezuelan Llanos are one of the best spots to see wildlife in all of Latin America. Another reason it's…

Does that blog post header meet the standards of Buzzfeed? Not long ago I was asked this question in connection with a talk, but I didn’t have time to answer it: Suppose you had a time machine you that you solely wanted to use for financial gain. You can bring one item from the present back to any…

The President and others have praised the U.S.A. Freedom Act, but haven’t mentioned the blindingly obvious fact that without Edward Snowden the law wouldn’t exist. Photograph by CARSTEN REHDER / AFP / Getty Now that Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed, the U.S.A. Freedom Act , which…

FLINT, MI -- It's been 25 years since Michael Moore introduced the world to his take on Flint, GM and corporate responsibility through his first documentary, "Roger & Me." The film, which premiered in film festivals in 1989, went on to become an international success. For the city, Michael Moore put…

I n 2012, two massive storms pounded the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless, hungry or without power for days and weeks. Americans did what they so often do after disasters. They sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Red Cross, confident their money would ease the…

I went to Brooklyn, New York to visit Nina Freeman , who is currently making a game called Cibele . It is an autobiographical game about Nina’s experience having sex for the first time with someone she met through an online game. The game uses real filmed sequences and sections of an MMO-like game…

Rock sees his new film as a last chance. “If this doesn’t work, I can definitely see no one letting me direct a movie again,” he says. Photograph by Pari Dukovic In 1988, when Chris Rock had been doing standup comedy for four years, he took part in a special called “Comedy’s Dirtiest Dozen.” The…

When Audrey Hepburn starred in Roman Holiday in 1953, she was 23 years old. She had arrived in America from Europe a couple of years earlier, at a time when the very idea of a movie star was in flux. Marlon Brando and his Method-acting mob were charging out of New York’s Actors Studio and into…

Skip to main content You are here Home / Explore film & TV / Sight & Sound magazine / Sight & Sound articles / Polls and surveys Critics’ 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time What are the greatest documentaries ever made? We polled 340 critics, programmers and filmmakers in the search for…

Photograph by Sebastian Meyer/Corbis. To the defense of Erbil: this was the main cause that drew President Obama back to combat in Iraq last week, two and a half years after he fulfilled a campaign pledge and pulled the last troops out. After Mazar-i-Sharif, Nasiriyah, Kandahar, Mosul, Benghazi, and…

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Last November, we published a story, ‘A Rape on Campus’ [RS 1223], that centered around a University of Virginia student’s horrifying account of her alleged gang rape at a campus fraternity house. Within days, commentators started to question the veracity of our narrative.…

“I’d sell my soul for total control...” Gina Healey molded her body into an S to The Motels’ new wave dirge “Total Control.” She was “scat dancing,” relying on her instincts, and not one bit of her — neither head nor toe nor in between — stood still. On that Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1980,…

On the afternoon of Aug. 9, a police officer fatally shot an unarmed, black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. Details remain in dispute. Eyewitnesses have said that Brown was compliant with police and was shot while he had his hands up. Police maintain that the 18-year-old had…

POLITICS, wrote the political scientist Harold Lasswell in 1936, is about “who gets what, when, and how.” If you want to understand the racial power disparities we’ve seen in Ferguson, Mo., understand that it’s not only about black and white. It’s about green. Back in 1876, the city of St. Louis…

Published on May 30, 2015 David D. Clark, an MIT scientist whose air of genial wisdom earned him the nickname “Albus Dumbledore,” can remember exactly when he grasped the Internet’s dark side. He was presiding over a meeting of network engineers when news broke that a dangerous computer worm — the…

Disponible en Español By the first days of October, the outdoor basketball court at the Rural Teachers College in Ayotzinapa, a town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, had become an open-air waiting room of despair. Pain emanated like heat. Under the court’s high, corrugated tin roof, the families of…

Peter Yang Smile at the customer. Bake cookies for your colleagues. Sing your subordinates’ praises. Share credit. Listen. Empathize. Don’t drive the last dollar out of a deal. Leave the last doughnut for someone else. Sneer at the customer. Keep your colleagues on edge. Claim credit. Speak first.…

I was talking to someone who works on one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept that distracted us for a few years while they settled into their roles as slightly different ways to text. He mentioned something,…

Illustration by Tom Bachtell A year ago, at the Cannes film festival, Leila Hatami, an Iranian movie star best known in this country for her role in “A Separation,” was walking the red carpet, wearing a gold-embroidered turban and a matching long-sleeved dress, when she encountered Gilles Jacob, the…

One afternoon just a month and a half after the Battle of Gettysburg, Christopher Spencer, the creator of a seven-shot repeating rifle, walked Abraham Lincoln out to a grassy field near where the Washington Monument now stands in order to demonstrate the amazing potential of his new gun. Lincoln had…

Problems in the relationship between Bangladesh and India are nothing new, but the controversy surrounding the chitmahals , or the Bangladesh-India enclaves, has proved particularly tricky for governments on both sides. A patchwork of about 160 microscopic states-within-states lies scattered across…

To her, it looked like a harmless piece of coal, about the size of her fist. She remembers passing it to a Chinese secret agent. She remembers later learning about the train, the bridge, the explosion. Sometimes she thinks she has suppressed many wartime memories, but even after almost 70 years,…

Most of September 17, 2012, has evaporated from my mind. I still have a few memories. I have the way the surgeon's voice shook. I remember my wife calling my name while she was still under sedation. And I have an image of the hospital floor, up close. I remember white tile and a hope: Maybe I will…

Share 2K Share Jump straight to a section Crafting the Citadel Into the toxic storm Through the canyon Delivering day for night The final chase The guitar gets it Arming Furiosa Shifting the skies The postvis process When George Miller looked to return to the world of Mad Max with his new Fury Road…

TAKEOFF As we push back from our gate at Heathrow Airport we light the Boeing 747’s engines in pairs, starting with those under the starboard wing. A sudden hush falls in the cockpit as the air flow for the air-conditioning units is diverted. It’s this, air alone, that begins to spin the enormous…

I recently met with the advanced design team of a Japanese client to discuss how autonomous mobility could play out. The following are behavioral musings/predictions based on research into practices across markets as diverse as the US, China, Japan and India. The elasticity of a vehicle: its…

Although most of our world is not white, the end of the world is always so. The math does not add up. Mad Max: Fury Road is making waves as a must-see “feminist” film, largely in reaction to calls for a boycott by so-called men’s rights activists (MRAs) based on analyses such as “[Charlize] Theron…

The first full shot we get of the escaping women shows them standing tall against a gorgeous sun-blasted horizon, wearing white muslin bikinis and other resort-wear, and looking exactly like supermodels posing for a Vogue shoot in the deserts of Namibia. Men’s rights advocates (MRAs) have been…

Years ago some feminist on the Internet told me I was "privileged." "THE F&CK!?!?" I said. I came from the kind of poor that people don't want to believe still exists in this country. Have you ever spent a frigid northern-Illinois winter without heat or running water? I have. At 12 years old were…

Games are grotesque. I’m not talking about games like Grand Theft Auto or Manhunt , games whose subjects are moral turpitude, games that that ask players to murder, maim, or destroy. I mean games in general, the form we call “games.” Games are gross, revolting heaps of arbitrary anguish. Games are…

Psilocybin may be useful in treating anxiety, addiction, and depression, and in studying the neurobiology of mystical experience. Illustration by Stephen Doyle On an April Monday in 2010, Patrick Mettes, a fifty-four-year-old television news director being treated for a cancer of the bile ducts,…

What’s News Turkey Crisis Rattles Currency Markets, Pushes Dollar Higher The Turkish lira plunged to its lowest level ever on worries about Ankara’s stability, sending tremors through Europe and emerging markets while the country’s leader and President Trump ratcheted up their war of words. 12…

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In mid-September, while President Obama was fending off complaints that he should have done more, done less, or done something different about the overlapping crises in Iraq and Syria, he traveled to Central Command headquarters, at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. There he addressed some of the…

April 28, 2017 gluekit How a chicken farmer, a pair of princesses, and 27 imaginary spies helped the Allies win World War II. In the weeks leading up to D-day, Allied commanders had their best game faces on. “This operation is not being planned with any alternatives,” barked General Dwight D.…