A Last Note

Jan 3, 2023 — With lists, polls, and remembrances, we look back once again to the year that was.

Dec 10, 2022 — Screening the Past returns, Another Screen presents films from Iran, and Céline Sciamma talks about the thirtieth greatest film of all time.

Nov 22, 2022 — Spike Lee’s transcendent portrait of an American hero is an urgent call for the nation to live up to everything it claims to be.

Aug 26, 2022 — Louise Brooks, Marguerite Duras, Lucrecia Martel, and Jacquelyn Mills headline this week’s roundup.

May 18, 2022 — Just slightly northwest of Death Valley, in what is now eastern California, a mountain range carves out the eastern edge of the Owens Valley. Sculpted by bedrock pushed between tectonic faults during the late Proterozoic to Cambrian periods, the Inyo...

Jan 28, 2022 — Names in the news this week: Asta Nielsen, Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino, Alexandre Rockwell, James Blue, and Mou Tun-fei.

Nov 17, 2021 — Decades after Peter Lorre’s knife-toting creep Hans Beckert prowled the Berlin streets in search of little girls in Fritz Lang’s M (1931); after Robert Mitchum’s silver-tongued Harry Powell cut down all the “smooth and curly-haired things” he could get his...

Oct 1, 2021 — This week we’re celebrating Haile Gerima, reading the new Cinema Scope, and listening to Julie Delpy.

Sep 3, 2021 — Faya Dayi opens, Sight & Sound revives the Black Film Bulletin, and Tsai Ming-liang and Tony Leung Chiu Wai look back—and ahead.

May 27, 2021 — First Person I first watched Yi Yi on a busted cassette tape, in my small Texas town, rented from a Blockbuster behind a rice field and a pharmacy. If you were a high schooler growing up just outside of Houston...