Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing…

An analysis of director Sidney Lumet’s work (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead) in his own words, based on a five-day interview recorded shortly…

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building’s residents.