A Cultural Film

Thomas Elsaesser is professor emeritus in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of New German Cinema: A History (1989) and Fassbinder’s Germany: History Identity Subject (1996). His recent publications include European...

Mar 27, 2023 — Karina Longworth launches a new season of You Must Remember This and a screening series in Los Angeles.

Nov 22, 2018 — Celebrate Thanksgiving with one of the grimmest and grimiest comedies of the eighties, Bruce Robinson’s beloved Withnail and I.

Nov 5, 2018 — With the gradual rollout of his two-part semi-musical, Wang is seeing his strongest reviews yet.

Nov 5, 2014 — A review of the American auteur’s posthumously published novel

Sep 29, 2023 — The newly reconstructed and restored seven-hour version of the 1923 melodrama screens on Saturday and again next week in New York.

Jun 16, 2021 — We’re catching up with news of projects in the works from Todd Haynes, the Dardennes, Rebecca Miller, Todd Solondz, and Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Dec 4, 2018 — Twelve episodic works and seventy-three shorts will premiere in Park City, while Rotterdam shines its spotlight on Parajanov and Godard.

Mar 25, 2018 — Since our last roundup on new issues, two more publications have each put out another. The new March 2018 issue of Film Criticism opens with Julia Vassilieva’s essay on Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan (2014; image above). “While earlier discussions of the...

Nov 12, 2017 — In Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero, Nancy Schoenberger “has hidden a provocative thesis,” suggests Stephen Metcalf, writing for the Atlantic. “She asks us to remember the beauty of masculine self-mastery as...