Chronic

Chris Vognar is a culture journalist. He writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He is a former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu is an Oscar-winning director and writer. His films include Amores perros (2000), Babel (2006), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022).

David Sterritt is a contributing writer at Cineaste, a film professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the former film critic of the Christian Science Monitor, and past chair of the National Society of Film Critics. His books include...

Feb 28, 2013 — Chronicle of a Summer, a sui generis 1961 collaboration between sociologist Edgar Morin and documentary filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch, is considered a pioneering work of cinéma-vérité. That term—coined by Morin himself—gets thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean?...

Feb 25, 2013 — When an ethnographic filmmaker and a sociologist joined forces, they helped change the course of nonfiction cinema.

Oct 14, 2026 — Putin’s crackdown on independent media sends TV Rain journalists fleeing the country.

Oct 5, 2026 — Andrew Scott and Rami Malek play dying actors determined to give their all to their art in the late 1980s.

Sep 18, 2026 — We’re remembering Patricio Guzmán and spotlighting new writing on Sarah Maldoror, Tsui Hark, and the Up series.

Sep 17, 2026 — Our Halloween programming includes a tour of cinema’s scariest road movies, an anthology of TV-movie nightmares, and collections built around our fears of sinister intruders and mysterious possessive forces.

Sep 3, 2026 — This year’s Venice opener propels us through the origin story of our current media hellscape.