The Cove

Sep 21, 2018 — This week’s round of five highlights begins with a new column and a new issue of Film Quarterly.

Aug 31, 2018 — And a pillar of American film criticism falls.

Jul 25, 2018 — And Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind will finally see the light of day.

Jul 4, 2018 — New issues of Cinema Scope, Film Comment, and Senses of Cinema take stock of the year in cinema—so far.

May 24, 2018 — The late novelist’s work has proven to be an all but insurmountable challenge to screenwriters—but there’s hope.

May 1, 2018 — Working within the strict rules and tight budget of a commissioned television project, one of France’s finest contemporary directors made an artistic breakthrough that would go on to define his career.

Dec 23, 2017 — Let’s first take a quick break from 2017 and look back fifty years (as I suspect we’ll be doing a lot in 2018). For Little White Lies, Justine Smith has been rifling through various archives and has put together a...

Nov 20, 2017 — “Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday after nearly...

Nov 7, 2017 — A haughty socialite is torn between the affections of three men in George Cukor’s blissful comedy of manners.

Oct 27, 2017 — This has to be one of the most tentative “in the works” roundups yet. The top three items relate to projects that may never be realized, but they’re certainly intriguing enough to make note of here.Mark Frost, for example, who...