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EDITOR’S LETTER

NE YEAR AGO, WE FEATURED director Ryan Coogler on the cover of and wrote about how the record-setting film broke new ground in the realm of genre. For our March/April issue, we are drawn inexorably back into that realm, looking now at another corner of the universe through Claire Denis’s eyes in her terminal space journey . And that’s far from the last we’ll hear from adventurous filmmakers pushing into reality-bending genres: James Gray’s intergalactic effort premieres this year, Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy looms, and closer at hand, Jordan Peele’s opens up fresh horrors in March (following his foray into science fiction with the series ). What on earth (or off it) is going on?

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