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Film
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Scenes of Instruction
by Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon February 22, 2012
Caught between the death of film and a digital childhood, it would appear that cinema has developed a debilitating neurosis.
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Auteur Delusion
by Aaron Cutler February 15, 2012
In an era where large-scale filmmaking is often careless and disposable, a high-profile work that takes itself seriously (let alone its audience) can feel like a relief.
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I Want the Work to be Useful: An Interview with Dani Leventhal
by James Cole January 17, 2012
I’m aware that I’m in a safe room with my materials, doing this thing that I love, while in the larger world there’s something really fucked up going on.
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Sketches from Life: Jonas Mekas’s Sleepless Night Stories
by Aaron Cutler December 19, 2011
He lets the direct sound from his digital camera stand, so that everyone speaks in their own voices, and together give the film its title.
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A Summer Place: Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy
by Courtney A. Fiske November 28, 2011
Tomboy paints that moment, poised on the cusp of adolescence, when make-believe can still be guileless.
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Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
by Michael Joshua Rowin October 17, 2011
To say Optic Antics, the first book devoted entirely to the films of Ken Jacobs, is long overdue would constitute a gross understatement.
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The Film of Tomorrow will be an Act of War
by Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon October 17, 2011
Rossellini uses cheating, lying, stealing, and dying — the elements of melodrama — to reveal a new reality defined by surveillance and reconnaissance, occupation and militarism.
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Pragmatic Illusionism: John Smith on DVD
by Colin Beckett October 17, 2011
His best movies devour their own boundaries and turn ever outward: toward life and the stories by which we try to understand it.
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Introduction to Idiom Film
by Tom McCormack October 17, 2011
We’d like to get polemical. We want to get argumentative. Film criticism has become toothless.
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
by Courtney A. Fiske September 12, 2011
He scrawls the Hebraic name “Schechina” across the top of a canvas, pencils the digits one through ten on a stiffened white dress, and shouts.
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