Cinema Scope
Interviews Tales from the Unama’ki Hospital: Ashley McKenzie on Queens of the Qing Dynasty by Adam Nayman Pointing the Moral Index Finger: Ruth Beckermann on Mutzenbacher by Darren Hughes Not on the Lips: Claire Denis on Avec amour et acharnement by Jordan Cronk Bravo, Richie: Ulrich Seidl on Rimini by Giovanni Marchini Camia Features I Know…
Read MoreInterviews Show Biz Kids: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza by Adam Nayman What Lies Beyond: Michelangelo Frammartino on Il buco by Jordan Cronk Features Higher Power: Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta and the Legacy of Nunsploitation by Christoph Huber Too Good at Goodbyes: The Souvenir Part II and Joanna Hogg’s Cinema of Memory by Katherine Connell The…
Read MoreInterviews I Remember Everything: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria by Jordan Cronk Do the Hustle: Sean Baker on Red Rocket by Blake Williams Cartooning Unlimited: Dash Shaw on Cryptozoo and Discipline by Sean Rogers Features To Sir, with Love: Maria Speth’s Mr. Bachmann and His Class by Michael Sicinski Next Stop Eternity Peter Tscherkassky’s Train Again and…
Read MoreAlexandre Koberidze, Dasha Nekrasova,Radu Jude, Amalia Ulman, Monte Hellman, TV or not TV, Eberhard and Phyllis Kronhausen, Azor, New Order, Siberia
Read MoreThe Cinema Scope Top Ten of 2020 Interviews *En plein air: Denis Côté on Hygiène sociale by Jordan Cronk *The Primacy of Perception: Ramon & Silvan Zürcher on The Girl and the Spider by Blake Williams Learning to Swim: Dominik Graf on Fabian – Going to the Dogs by Christoph Huber Hollywood Ending: Jim Cummings…
Read More1. Days (Tsai Ming-liang) 2. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C.W. Winter and Anders Edström) 3. The Year of Discovery (Luis López Carrasco) 4. The Last City (Heinz Emigholz) 5. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen) 6. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sangsoo) 7. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu) 8. DAU. Degeneration (Ilya…
Read MoreFEATURES The Play for Tomorrow: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe by Michael Sicinski The Crowd is Dead, Long Live the Crowd! by Erika Balsom All the Fountains of the Great Deep: Artavazd Pelechian’s La Nature by Phil Coldiron Minority Report: Armond White Wants to Make Spielberg Great Again by Adam Nayman F for Fake: Mank by Andrew Tracy…
Read MoreINTERVIEWS *The Act of Living: Gianfranco Rosi on Notturno By Mark Peranson *Reconstructing Violence: Nicolás Pereda on Fauna By Jordan Cronk FEATURES *A Pierce of the Action: On Claudine and UptightBy Andrew Tracy *I Lost It at the Movies: Charlie Kaufman’s Antkind and I’m Thinking of Ending ThingsBy Adam Nayman *Open Ticket: The Long, Strange…
Read MoreInterviews The Land Demands Your Effort: C.W Winter (and Anders Edström) on The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) by Mark Peranson DAU. Diary & Dialogue. Part One: A Living World by Jordan Cronk As If We Were Dreaming It: Christian Petzold’s Undine by James Lattimer The Math of Love Triangles: Athina…
Read MoreInterviews A State of Uncertainty: Tsai Ming-liang on Days by Darren Hughes New Possible Realities: Heinz Emigholz on The Last City by Jordan Cronk This Dream Will Be Dreamed Again: Luis López Carrasco’s El año del descubrimiento by James Lattimer Out of the Inkwell: Kim Deitch on Reincarnation Stories by Sean Rogers Features Impresión de un…
Read MoreInterviews Anything Is Possible: Josh and Benny Safdie on Uncut Gems by Adam Nayman A Concept of Reality: Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral by Daniel Kasman Fairytales and Freudian Females: A Conversation with Jessica Hausner by Jordan Cronk Features They Are All Equal Now: The Irishman’s Epic of Sadness by Robert Koehler I Shall Be Released: Amazing…
Read MoreInterviews No God But the Unknown Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci on Martin Eden by Jordan Cronk I See a Darkness: Pedro Costa on Vitalina Varela by Haden Guest and Mark Peranson Naked in Paris: Nadav Lapid on Synonyms by Robert Koehler Features Natural Wonders: The Films of Jessica Sarah Rinland by Darren Hughes Woman…
Read MoreCinema Scope Issue 79 with Features including .. Truth and Method: The Films of Thomas Heise by Michael Sicinski, Thinking in Images: Scott Walker and Cinema by Christoph Huber, 58th Venice Biennale, Cannes and DVD Reviews.
Read More*The Land of the Unknown: Roberto Minervini on What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? By Jordan Cronk.
“Poetry floats up in my memory like sailboats in the fog”:Alexei German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! By Daniel Witkin.
With Forever Presence: Jonathan Schwartz (1973-2018). By Max Goldberg.
*Soft and Hard: Claire Denis on High Life. By Adam Nayman.
Read More*The Land of the Unknown: Roberto Minervini on What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? By Jordan Cronk.
“Poetry floats up in my memory like sailboats in the fog”:Alexei German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! By Daniel Witkin.
With Forever Presence: Jonathan Schwartz (1973-2018). By Max Goldberg.
*Soft and Hard: Claire Denis on High Life. By Adam Nayman.
Read MoreINTERVIEWS *Teller of Tales: Mariano Llinás on La Flor by Jordan Cronk *Everything Transitory Is But an Image: Andrea Bussmann on Fausto by Josh Cabrita and Adam Cook A Banished Life: Ying Liang on A Family Tour by Clarence Tsui. *Mass Ornaments: Jodie Mack on The Grand Bizarre by Blake Williams FEATURES *Tous les garçons…
Read MoreINTERVIEWS Apt Pupil: Bi Gan on Long Day’s Journey Into Night By Blake Williams I Like America and America Likes Me: An Interview with Lars von Trier By Mark Peranson The Morals of Nature: Lee Chang-dong on Burning By Jordan Cronk FEATURES Exchange Rate: The Silent Partner at 40 By Adam Nayman Transgressions in the…
Read MoreINTERVIEWS *Paul Schrader: Deliberate Boredom in the Church of Cinema. By Alex Ross Perry. Community/Theatre: A Conversation with Stephen Cone. By Blake Williams. *Whatever Happened to Lizzie Borden? By Christoph Huber. Let Art Flourish, Let the World Perish: Morgan Fisher on Another Movie. By Jordan Cronk FEATURES *“You Never Heard of Code-Switching, Motherfucker?”: Joseph Kahn’s Bodied. By…
Read MoreInterviews Sightsurf and Brainwave: Blake Williams’ PROTOTYPE by Michael Sicinski In the Shadow of the Magic Kingdom: Sean Baker on The Florida Project by Adam Cook Giving Credibility to the Universe: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani on Laissez bronzer les cadavres by Christoph Huber Features The Uses of Disenchantment: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of…
Read MoreInterviews *The New Workout Plan: Denis Côté’s Ta peau si lisse by Adam Nayman Denis Côté’s Ta peau si lisse by Adam Nayman *Inner and Outer Space: Wang Bing Talks About Mrs. Fang by Daniel Kasman and Christopher Small *The Land of Terrible Legends: Narimane Mari on Le fort des fous by Jordan Cronk Add…
Read MoreThis the full table of contents from Cinema Scope Magazine #70. We post selected articles from each issue on the site which you can read for free using the links below. This is only possible with support from our subscribers, so please consider a subscription to the magazine, or the instant digital download version.
Read MoreThis the full table of contents from Cinema Scope Magazine #69. We post selected articles from each issue on the site which you can read for free using the links below. This is only possible with support from our subscribers, so please consider a subscription to the magazine, or the instant digital download version.
Read MoreThis the full table of contents from Cinema Scope Magazine #68. We post selected articles from each issue on the site which you can read for free using the links below. This is only possible with support from our subscribers, so please consider a subscription to the magazine, or the instant digital download version. Note: Articles marked * are in our TIFF Reviews…
Read MoreThis the full table of contents from Cinema Scope Magazine #67. We post selected articles from each issue on the site which you can read for free using the links below. This is only possible with support from our subscribers, so please consider a subscription to the magazine, or the instant digital download version. FEATURES *El Filibustero: Lav Diaz’s A Lullaby to the Sorrowful…
Read MoreThis the full table of contents from Cinema Scope Magazine #66. We post selected articles from each issue on the site which you can read for free using the links below. This is only possible with support from our subscribers, so please consider a subscription to the magazine, or the instant digital download version. Interviews Era Extraña: Lewis Klahr on Sixty…
Read MoreThis the full table of contents from Cinema Scope Magazine #65. We post selected articles from each issue on the site which you can read for free using the links below. This is only possible with support from our subscribers, so please consider a subscription to the magazine, or the instant digital download version. Interviews Two Years at Sea: An Interview…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from the print magazine issue of Cinema Scope #64. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. Articles available free online are linked below. Interviews Infinite Worlds Possible: Hong Sangsoo on Right Now, Wrong Then Essay by…
Read MoreChristian Petzold’s Phoenix, Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Postman’s White Nights, Peter Strickland on The Duke of Burgundy and more…
Read MoreChristian Petzold’s Phoenix, Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Postman’s White Nights, Peter Strickland on The Duke of Burgundy and more…
Read MoreChristian Petzold’s Phoenix, Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Postman’s White Nights, Peter Strickland on The Duke of Burgundy and more…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from the print magazine issue of Cinema Scope #60. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. Articles available free online are linked below. INTERVIEWS L’avventura: Pedro Costa on Horse Money by Mark Peranson Quest for…
Read MoreThis 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 the complete content please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. Articles available free online are linked below. FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS *Declarations of Independence: A Conversation Between Alex Ross Perry…
Read MoreI first encountered Joel Potrykus’ Ape (2012) when I was a jury member for the Filmmakers of the Present competition at Locarno. As it was the sole American narrative film in the selection, my curiosity was piqued before the festival even began. Ape was a revelation, and the jury agreed: we awarded Joel the Best…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope #58. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. Features What is Boyhood? by Gabe Klinger Hardbodies and Soul: The Professional Wrestler as Actor by Adam Nayman Game…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope #57. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. INTERVIEWS Architecture of Desire: Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition by Paul Dallas Time and Space: Moments with Lois Patiño by Aaron…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 56. We post a few selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content, and to help Cinema Scope continue, please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. * Articles available available free online Fall Festival Preview Interviews The Beauty of Horror…
Read MoreBy Calum Marsh Chad Hartigan’s This Is Martin Bonner tells a simple story: two fiftysomething men develop what can only be described, in clichéd trailer-speak, as an unlikely friendship. Thankfully this proves less precious than it sounds. Its men are serious, world-weary, and inhabited so naturally by their performers that they seem to carry the…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 55. We post a few selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content, and to help Cinema Scope continue, please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. * Articles available available free online Features and Interviews *Pretending…
Read MoreJoão Pedro Rodrigues: I’ve watched L’inconnu du lac twice, and now realize that the film takes place over ten days. Alain Guiraudie: Yes, you’re right. Rodrigues: Only on the ninth day do you omit the establishing shot of the parking lot, which introduces all the other nine days. Was this shot already planned when you…
Read MoreBy Calum Marsh “This movie’s gonna be so good,” raves a zealous teenaged filmmaker to two young kids at the beginning of The Dirties. “It’s set in the club from Irreversible [2002].” The children are understandably baffled by the reference, and their reaction is genuine—they don’t know they’re acting in a film at all. The…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 54. We post a few selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content, and to help Cinema Scope continue, please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. * Articles available available free online Interviews Leaping and Looping…
Read More1. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel) 2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes) 3. Holy Motors (Leos Carax) 4. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) 5. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) 6. Viola (Matías Piñeiro) 7. The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata) 8. autrement,…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 53. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. * Articles available online Interviews He and “I”: João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata on The…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 52. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content please subscribe to the magazine, or consider the instant digital download version. * Articles available online Features *Blood and Thunder: Enter the Leviathan by Phil Coldiron…
Read MoreBy Christoph Huber and Mark Peranson Regularly dismissed by critics as an ADD action hack director, Tony Scott’s sixth collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer has a title that can be taken as a provocation: Déjà Vu seems to invite glib puns about the recurrence of heated fast cuts and heavily filtered celluloid, of slick surfaces and…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from Cinema Scope issue 51. * Articles available online Features *Get Out of the Car: David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis by José Teodoro and Adam Nayman *Eight Footnotes On a Brief Description of Footnotes to a House of Love, and Other Films by Laida Lertxundi by Phil Coldiron Holy Terror: Robert…
Read MoreThis is the complete list of articles from Cinema Scope issue 50. * Articles available online Features and Interviews *Film Criticism After Film Criticism: The J. Hoberman Affair by Mark Peranson *The Animal Equation by Denis Côté small roads, 103 minutes, 47 shots, 2011 by James Benning *Epinephrine, Man: The Cranked-Up Films of Neveldine/Taylor by…
Read MoreBy Mark Peranson, Michael Sicinski, Alan Franey, José Teodoro, Tom Charity, C.W. Winter, Olivier Père, Robert Koehler, Olaf Möller, Adam Nayman, Gabe Klinger, Jason Anderson, and Andrew Tracy A tantalizing rumour, never confirmed, spread around Cannes that Thierry Frémaux instructed his jury that if they did not award Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life…
Read MoreWelcome to Cinema Scope online, a weekly updated web supplement to the print version of Cinema Scope. In the magazine, we have a limited amount of space to pack the world of Cinema As We Know It in. So, for example, while we might cover the “major” “premiere” festivals in print, in the weekly updates…
Read More1. Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000) 2. In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa, 2001) 3. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso, 2001) 4. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003) 5. 13 Lakes (James Benning, 2004) 6. Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz, 2004) 7. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000) 8. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006) 9. Memories…
Read MoreWEB ONLY The Monster Is Afraid: The Elephant Man, David Lynch By Serge Daney Letter: On Malaysian Cinema By Pierre Rissient INTERVIEWS Vulgar Moralism: Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book By Robert Koehler The Dark Horse: Robinson Devor on Zoo By Rob Nelson and in the magazine.. A Relay Race of the Week: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host…
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