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Over Time
This week sees new issues of film and literary journals as well as great writing on Stanley Kwan, Hong Sangsoo, and Claire Denis.
From the Surreal to the Too Real
This week: Surrealism and cinema, a Cold War “travesty,” talking about Bruno, and walking in Hong Kong.
“Let’s Be Scared All the Time”
This week: Sarah Maldoror and Wayne Wang, plus new issues and features and the return of Film Studies for Free.
Early Summer Reading
Along with a fresh round of new issues from film journals, we’re reading about Mike Leigh, Juliet Berto, Julie Dash, and Clint Eastwood.
Fits and Starts
It wasn’t always smooth going for Max Ophuls, Mike Hodges, or Irrfan Khan.
“I’ll Die of Love”
This week: Tarkovsky’s answer to Kubrick, the Otolith Group, Brooklyn filmmakers, German scenes, and Béatrice Dalle.
They’ve Got the Look—and the Beat
This week swerves from the slick cinéma du look to the harshest punk noise.
A Lot of Gaul
Cannes tops off its lineup, and we’re reading about Rivette, Resnais—and more.
Remarkable Women
This week we’re reading interviews with Mira Nair and Jane Schoenbrun, profiles of Viola Davis and Maggie Cheung, and an essay on Joan Micklin Silver.
Perpetual Evolution
This week we’re imagining possible futures with David Lynch, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Gus Van Sant.
A Genius for Flourish
This week: A new Cinema Scope, Robert Siodmak, Theodore Witcher, reenactment in nonfiction, and the science of Dune.
Oscars 2022—and 1992
This week’s reads include a survey of this year’s contenders, a look back to the last big sweep, and interviews with Wayne Wang and Valentyn Vasyanovych.
Perceptive Splits
Ukrainian cinema, suspense vs. dread, and the opposite of synesthesia are on our minds this week.
Screwballs and Mobsters
This week’s roundup roams from pre-Code Hollywood to the New Hollywood of the 1970s.
Down into the Unknown
Freud and Jung make surprise appearances in this week’s roundup.
Time and the Times
A young Luc Moullet’s thoughts on Luis Buñuel and Ethan Hawke’s work with Richard Linklater are among this week’s highlights.
Daring Independence
This week we’re celebrating pioneers of queer cinema and reading about Melville, Menelik Shabazz, Patrick Wang, and Francis Ford Coppola.
Berlin and Beyond
The week wraps with swift thrills from Steven Soderbergh and Dominik Graf and fresh appreciations of Louis Malle and Julien Duvivier.
Electric Liberation
This week: Céline Sciamma, Julia Ducournau, Jane Campion, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve.
The All-Determining Lens
Names in the news this week: Asta Nielsen, Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino, Alexandre Rockwell, James Blue, and Mou Tun-fei.
Soulful and Defiant
This week: Sundance at thirty and Ways of Seeing at fifty, plus the Márta Mészáros and Bill Morrison retrospectives and a new Cinema Scope.
What Happened Then . . . and Next?
This week we’re watching and reading about Tom Noonan, Jean Vigo, Marie-Claude Treilhou, and Miklós Jancsó.
From Far and Long Away
Travel this weekend with Stanley Kubrick, David Bowie, Sarah Maldoror, Lana Wachowski, and Tsai Ming-liang.
“Cinema Seems To Me Above All Inexhaustibly Generous”
A Nicole Brenez dossier and writing on Melvin Van Peebles and Nicolas Cage are among this week’s highlights.