Tag: cinema

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Côte d’Illusion

James Wham

June 06, 2023

Cannes as we know it is an invention of the aristocracy.

Bully Superstar

Jeremy Lybarger

May 23, 2023

The high drama and cool shallows of Fassbinder.

Cinema Is Never on Time

A. S. Hamrah

September 06, 2022

On the late film critic Serge Daney.

Palais Intrigue

James Wham

June 08, 2022

For all its cash-flashing and celebrity worship, Cannes still offers moments of possibility.

Apichatpong the Memorious

Dennis Zhou

March 09, 2022

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films uncover long-suppressed histories.

Trivial Pursuits

Marlowe Granados

August 30, 2019

From Ann Harding to Kay Francis—the romantic politics of the adventuress.

WorryFree™ and Always on Script

Gene Seymour

July 17, 2018

Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You faces race and abasement in a battered republic.

The Book of No Despair

J.W. McCormack

March 26, 2018

Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.

The Trash of the System

Dan Duray

November 20, 2017

Is the art world total bullshit? Two new films offer an enthusiastic, "Yes!"

The Miseducation of Lady Bird

Lauren Oyler

November 15, 2017

Greta Gerwig's much-praised "Lady Bird" puts us all in a teenage wasteland.

Signs and Blunders

Judy Berman

November 08, 2017

Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" finds moral complexity where it needed moral certitude.

Tom Hanks: Typewriter Fetishist

J.W. McCormack

October 18, 2017

The impregnable constellation we call “Tom Hanks" has gifted us with a collection of typewriter-fetish fiction.