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Carlos Valladares

Carlos Valladares is a writer, critic and PhD student in the departments of art history and film at Yale University, New Haven, USA.

The director’s 1963 film, ‘The Cool World’, is a unique misstep in her lauded career

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‘Evil Does Not Exist’ is a complex exploration of sensations that indulges in the withheld and sublimely ambiguous

BY Carlos Valladares |

A new translation of the writer’s rarest novel The Apple in the Dark is a revelation

BY Carlos Valladares |

For the release of ’Showing Up’, Carlos Valladares speaks to the director and actor about how their new film reframes the idea of working artists

In Damien Chazelle’s newest film, the altar of Hollywood crumbles under the weight of its own spectacle

BY Carlos Valladares |

The director’s return to the body horror genre exposes crimes of the heart

BY Carlos Valladares |

The surreal rock opera, which opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a gritty musical examining sex, power and family relations under intense glare of fame

BY Carlos Valladares |