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"Consider Every Movie is a Miracle a heartfelt thank you to movies, the lives they shape, and the friendships they help form."

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"Much more than an overview of a filmography, Darkness Visible is a thoughtful, at-times poetic consideration of how one of today’s most formally daring auteurs grapples with the darkest corners of the human condition."

"Lipman provides a much-needed meta-analysis of the film-preservation discipline in 2025, outlining a series of questions about the nature of archives, the ephemerality of cultural objects, and the history of cinematic technology."

"The book is witty, minutely detailed, and braced by common sense — a welcome gift in an often obsessive environment. If you have any interest in the collision of old and new, in any field of endeavor—architecture, archeology, sexuality, table manners—I recommend a particular chapter of Lipman’s book, ‘The Gray Zone.’ Lipman is graced with a talent to enthuse." — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

Drawing on essays by filmmakers about what (they think) they’re doing and about the nature of the medium in which they’re doing it, public and private interviews and conversations with them, and details in the films they’ve made, Adrian Martin offers an insightful survey of the "threefold dialogue" involved in any filmmaker’s creative work.

Anthony Ray's Circle of Lions and other Sticking Place Books titles in Criterion's monthly books roundup.

Russian Poland, a newly published screenplay he wrote in the 1990s, is a collection of Jewish fables that shows Mamet stretching himself in unexpected directions.