Tag: film

Columns

The Afterlife of a Coup

Sammy Feldblum

December 13, 2023

Fifty years of Chilean life in the films of Patricio Guzmán.

Boy Afraid

Grace Byron

December 07, 2023

Hayao Miyazaki’s grief-soaked kingdom of boyhood dreams.

Paul Schrader’s American Carnage

Robert Rubsam

October 31, 2023

How the director became our chief chronicler of U.S. violence, at home and abroad.

Sacklerama!

John Semley

September 28, 2023

Why we can’t look away from opioid epidemic entertainments.

Atomic Sad Boy

Zachariah Webb

July 31, 2023

Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic of Robert Oppenheimer sands off the complexities of the man.

Imaginary Current Events

Chris Marker

July 05, 2023

Chris Marker wore as many hats as he had pseudonyms.

Lorenza Mazzetti’s Kingdom for Children

Ian Wang

June 27, 2023

The writer-director rejected the bourgeois adult world.

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.

Creature’s Pet

Steve Macfarlane

May 17, 2023

Ricou Browning’s aquatic athleticism is what made the creature real, and therefore terrifying.

Radical Dilettantism

Mary Retta

April 13, 2023

On Allison Mills Newman and the art of living well.

Riding the Goddamn Elephant

A. S. Hamrah

March 09, 2023

You're all going to hell.