Letter from an Editor
When we look at the images gliding across the screen, mirror-like, we see human figures and we look for our selves in them.
View ArticleSacred Texts and Ruined Childhoods: On Aronofsky’s Noah
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah ruined my childhood, and thank God.
View ArticleThis Mass of Conflicting Impulses: A Former Teen Narcissist Watches Margaret
To watch Margaret is to spend three hours in the nearly uninterrupted company of a caustic, bright, naive, and passionate 17-year-old girl as she navigates a difficult passage of her life.
View ArticleWitch-Craft: Why Robert Eggers is Our Next Great Filmmaker
One has to peel back a few layers of accreted cultural criticism to get to what The Witch actually is, as a film.
View ArticleDeath is the Curator: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro
Lauren Wilford goes long with director Guillermo del Toro on art, life, death, morality and movies.
View ArticleTowards a True Children’s Cinema: on ‘My Neighbor Totoro’
My Neighbor Totoro is a children’s film for the world as it is, and for the world as it should be.
View ArticleSam Shakusky Goes To College: An Interview with Jared Gilman
"One's a fictional character who just happens to look exactly like the sixth-grade version of me. And the other one is me."
View ArticleYou Get to Live a Lot of Life: An Interview with Liv Ullmann
"I’ve done a lot of other things, but when I look back on my work… [my work with Bergman was] probably what gave me most life. Because I was so alive, and I was trusted so much."
View ArticleCracking Up: On Liv Ullmann in Face to Face
The first half of Ingmar Bergman's script seems to call for an almost comically tight-lipped, stone-faced blankness; the second half calls for at least four different coloratura breakdowns. Ullmann...
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