Up to You

Jul 2, 2020 — New issues of photogénie, Comparative Cinema, and SCMS+ take on an array of raging crises.

Apr 20, 2020 — This month sees new books by and about Woody Allen, Miranda July, and Michael Snow as well as fresh translations and collections of criticism.

Mar 18, 2020 — People talk a lot about the way that Rita Hayworth looked. She was the Hollywood “love goddess,” with a sensational figure, a dazzling smile, and hair that fell in long, auburn waves. The pinup so iconic that her posters were...

Jan 13, 2020 — Soon after completing his 1928 silent masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer turned his attention to a genre he had not yet explored on-screen, undertaking to make a horror movie that was, in his...

Jan 6, 2020 — 1917 is now repositioned as a late frontrunner in the Oscar race.

Oct 24, 2019 — D irector Ishiro Honda gathered his crew and gave them an ultimatum. He was about to put his career at risk, and he would only work with those who approached his current project—a movie about a radiation-spewing prehistoric reptile that...

Oct 10, 2019 — Dark Passages Where the sea and the city meet, they corrupt each other. Around docks, the ocean’s margins are scummy with oil and floating garbage; the water corrodes hulls, encrusts pilings, and slimes steps. Ports cater to men who come...

Sep 20, 2019 — In the winter of 1981, when I was young, I fell madly in love with a handsome poet. About two weeks into our affaire de cœur, we went to the Thalia on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to see...

Jul 8, 2019 — Ben Barenholtz and Milos Stehlik helped shape the tastes of generations of cinephiles.

May 31, 2019 — Cannes 2019 Cannes has been top dog in the festival world as long as anyone can remember. It was originally set to launch in 1939 as a conscious political reply by liberal democracy to the success of Mussolini in establishing...