The Current
A magazine of film culture past and present, with new articles, interviews, and videos published every day
Recent Articles
Least Wanted—Film Noir’s Character Actors: Wallace Ford
A haven for aging Hollywood actors, film noir had plenty of room for performers like Wallace Ford, who brought a hard-scrabble energy to the roles of has-beens and losers.
Get into the Groove in Augusta
Travel back to the dawn of the eighties with The Last Days of Disco, playing today at Augusta University in a series of screenings celebrating its writer-director.
Notorious: The Same Hunger
In this pitch-perfect noir romance, Alfred Hitchcock explores what happens when the masks we wear in the world clash with our innermost desires.
“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” Captures the Ache of Fleeting Friendships
The Scottish band Simple Minds took the Breakfast Club theme song to the top of the charts. But its success—and its plea for loyalty—couldn’t save the group from its ultimate demise.
A World-Cinema Master Gives the World One Last Look
After his father’s death in 2016, Ahmad Kiarostami helped complete the conceptually daring meditation on image-making the great Iranian director had been working on for the last five years of his life.
The Wealthy Gone Wild in Indiana
Luis Buñuel skewers high society in his audaciously experimental late-career satire The Exterminating Angel, playing at the Indiana University Cinema this week.
Wild Child: A Conversation with Sandi Tan
The award-winning director of Shirkers looks back on her memories of growing up as a rebellious teenage cinephile and the movie-besotted culture of her native Singapore.
24 Frames: The World Made Visible
After years of paring his filmmaking down to the bare essentials, Abbas Kiarostami delivered this gorgeous and boldly minimalist meditation on time, movement, and image-making.
The Key Moment: Drawing a New Look for Notorious
The artist behind our new cover for Hitchcock’s spy-noir masterwork remembers falling in love with the film as a child and walks through the process of illustrating one of its most iconic scenes.
Celebrating Al Reinert
A longtime friend of the company, the award-winning director of For All Mankind has passed away at the age of seventy-one.
Ruthless Ronin in Massachusetts
Often imitated but never duplicated, Akira Kurosawa’s genre-bending samurai classic Yojimbo plays tomorrow in the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s After Midnite series.
Happy New Year!
See if you can guess what we have coming up in 2019.
Video
Spotlight
Dark Passages
Critic Imogen Sara Smith delves into the shadows of film noir in this ongoing series of articles about the genre’s most fascinating figures and abiding themes.
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