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From the Magazine

• Issue 59 Table of Contents
  

  This is the complete list of articles from the print magazine issue of Cinema Scope #59. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For More →

• Declarations of Independence: A Conversation Between Alex Ross Perry and Joel Potrykus
  

  I first encountered Joel Potrykus’ Ape (2012) when I was a jury member for the Filmmakers of the Present competition at Locarno. As it was More →

• Diary of a Mad Housewife: Robert Greene’s Actress
  

  By Adam Nayman “I tend to break things,” says Brandy Burre early on in Actress, and Robert Greene’s film gives her plenty of opportunities to More →

• Deborah Stratman: Safe and Sound
  

  By Samuel La France “Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”—Samuel Butler Since I’ve never lived in an earthquake zone—or a war zone, More →

• Each Memory Creates Its Own Legend: The Films of John Torres
  

  By Max Nelson John Torres has the sensibility of a romantic poet, the mode of address of a personal essayist, and an anthropologist’s curious, lingering, More →

• Cannes 2014: Who Let the Dogs Out? 
  

  ...another Cannes film festival whose lineup reads like it could have been cobbled together by a computer programmed with Frémaux DNA... More →

• Cannes 2014 | Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  

  By Blake Williams The first on-screen text in Toutes les histoires (1988), the first chapter of Histoire(s) du cinéma, reads (as translated), “May each eye More →

• Cannes 2014 | Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/Mexico/Denmark/France/Germany/USA/Brazil)
  

  By Quintín After the completion of his “Lonely Men Trilogy” of La libertad (2001), Los muertos (2004), and Liverpool (2008), people started to say that More →

• Cannes 2014 | Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey/Germany/France)
  

  By Jordan Cronk Seemingly preordained, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s overdue Palme d’Or win provided a nonetheless satisfying conclusion to a rather undramatic Cannes film festival—and, More →

• Cannes 2014 | The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy/Switzerland/Germany)
  

  By Tom Charity For those “in the know,” the Grand Jury Prize accorded to Alice Rohrwacher’s second film was the one surprise on a night More →

• Cannes 2014 | Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  

  By Boris Nelepo “Names, no doubt, are whimsical draughtsmen, giving us of people as well as of places sketches so unlike the reality that we More →

• Issue 59 Editor’s Note
  

  Another year, another two weeks wasted on the Riviera, but at least I got a tan. By now there’s no need to dwell on my More →

• Deaths of Cinema | The World in His Arms: Michael Glawogger, 1959-2014
  

  By Christoph Huber “The theatre is not a classroom, so there is nothing to learn. But there is a lot to see,” Michael Glawogger quipped More →

• Global Discoveries on DVD: Extras, Promos, Prices

  By Jonathan Rosenbaum I shelled out $56.19 US (including postage) to acquire the definitive and restored, director-approved DVD of Providence (1977) from French Amazon, and More →