The Club

Jun 10, 2014 — Douglas Sirk once said: “This is the dialectic—there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.” When All That Heaven Allows was...

Dec 13, 2011 — Just what is it that makes Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter (1966) so different, so appealing? The cherubic hero in the neat powder blue suit, who looks like he was torn out of a yakuza pop-up book? That hauntingly cornball theme...

Nov 15, 2011 — The thematic ideas and inspirations that sparked Three Colors: Blue (1993), though typically ambitious in scope, seem sketchy when compared to the intense experience of watching this exquisite film. We know that Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy corresponds to the...

Apr 18, 2011 — An Eagle for an Emperor, a Gyrfalcon for a King;   a Peregrine for a Prince, a Saker for a Knight, a Merlin for a Lady;   a Goshawk for a Yeoman, a Sparrowhawk for a Priest,   a Musket...

Apr 12, 2011 — After Army of Shadows, Melville and I stayed in touch . . . One day, he announced: “I’m going to make a new film. You’re not composing the score for it; I’ve contacted Michel Legrand . . .” Of course, I was disappointed....

Apr 28, 2003 — François Truffaut’s short Antoine Doinel film exposes an entire universe of male adolescent experience.

Murtada Elfadl is a culture writer, critic, and film curator. Born and raised in Khartoum, Sudan he currently resides in New York. His work has appeared in Variety, SEEN , and the A.V. Club, among other publications. He is a...

Donna Bowman is a theologian and professor in the Norbert O. Schedler Honors College at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author and editor of several books on theology, including The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Being Human. Her...

Emily VanDerWerff is the critic at large for Vox and was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Her writing has also appeared in Grantland and the Los Angeles Times. She is the coauthor of Monsters of the Week:...

Nathan Rabin is the former head writer of the A.V. Club and the author of six books, including Weird Al: The Book (with Al Yankovic) and You Don’t Know Me but You Don’t Like Me. He lives in Atlanta with...