From Karkhe to Rhein

Jul 16, 2018 — The legendary baseball writer talks about the no-nonsense pleasures of one of the all-time great sports movies and the classic essay he wrote about it.

Jul 16, 2018 — NECSUS, a freely accessible, international journal of media studies, is rolling out its new issue.

Jul 16, 2018 — Burning Secret would have been an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s 1913 novella.

Jul 10, 2018 — The popular podcast You Must Remember This takes on Kenneth Anger’s movie industry gossip.

Jul 9, 2018 — His days as an on-screen heartthrob peaked in the 1950s and early ’60s, but John Waters made him a star all over again.

Jul 7, 2018 — The writer and director lived a full and robust life both before and after his monumental Shoah.

Jul 1, 2018 — In one of Criterion’s earliest commentary tracks, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader talk about how they got lucky with their gripping New York City classic.

Jun 28, 2018 — As two festivals in New York survey the best of new Japanese cinema, it’s “Summer in Japan” in Toronto.

Jun 20, 2018 — Françoise Bonnot, who passed away last week at the age of seventy-eight­, was one of the world’s most versatile and seasoned film editors, with a five-decade career that encompassed work with such international auteurs as Costa-Gavras, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Volker Schlöndorff. But...

Jun 17, 2018 — “The music for A Woman Under the Influence is basically about love,” says Bo Harwood, the longtime collaborator of John Cassavetes’s who composed that film’s score. “It’s about loving somebody, loving your family, loving them no matter what.” This purity of emotion...