Tag: film

Columns

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.

Donkey Work

Robert Rubsam

January 18, 2023

What does the pained animal signify?

By the Bomb’s Filmic Light

Nicholas Russell

December 27, 2022

How did the threat of nuclear war become little more than a footnote?

Shortsighted

James Wham

December 12, 2022

Sight and Sound’s consumer criticism.

Remembrance of Things Present

Yasmina Price

November 22, 2022

On the Sankofa Film and Video Collective.

Art Is the New Puberty

David Leo Rice

July 07, 2022

David Cronenberg's new film is both a return to form and a reckoning with the body in revolt.

Despite All His Cage

J.W. McCormack

July 01, 2022

Nicolas Cage’s career is a categorical triumph of style over substance.

Our Man in Hollywood

Joel Whitney

June 15, 2022

With help from the CIA, Joseph Mankiewicz took a stand against “anti-Americanism.”

Palais Intrigue

James Wham

June 08, 2022

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

Weak at the Knees

James Wham

April 07, 2022

“Ahed’s Knee” has little to say about the gravest crimes of the state it sets out to criticize.

Silver Screen Sphinxes

Christina Newland

April 04, 2022

How Greta Garbo and Buster Keaton invented celebrity privacy.