While an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, in 1971, Carrie Rickey took a course taught by Manny Farber called “A Hard Look at the Movies.” On the syllabus was Agnès Varda‘s ...

The cinema, social theorist and sometime filmmaker Edgar Morin argued, is the model for our “mental commerce” with the world. Even awake and in the street, Morin wrote, we walk in solitary daydreams, ...