
Interviews No God But the Unknown Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci on Martin Eden by Jordan Cronk I See a
*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
*Tous les garçons et les filles: Philippe Lesage’s Genèse and Les demons by Adam Nayman
*Touch Me I’m Sick: Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell by Jason Anderson
*First Person Plural: On Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind by Phil Coldiron
Hidden Lives and Quiet Passion: Alias John M. Stahl by Christoph Huber
No Emperor, Only an Empress: The Self-Made Myth of Marlene Dietrich by Alicia Fletcher
The Business of Horror: John Carpenter, Stephen King, and In the Mouth of Madness by Sean Rogers
Beyond Good and Evil: Damon Packard’s Los Angeles by Michael Sicinski
On No Thing: Jean-Luc Godard’s Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de cinéma by Lawrence Garcia
*Editor’s Note by Mark Peranson
*Deaths of Cinema: Hu Bo by Celluloid Liberation Front
Film/Art: Jeremy Shaw’s Quantification Trilogy by Jesse Cumming
*Global Discoveries on DVD by Jonathan Rosenbaum
DVD Bonus: G.W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft by Peter Mersereau
*Exploded View: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty by Chuck Stephens
Sorry to Bother You by Madeleine Wall
Blaze by Robert Koehler
A moving study of mourning and memory, Pedro Costa’s revelatory new film offers an indelible portrait of Vitalina Taveres Varela, a fragile yet indomitable woman who makes the long voyage from Cape Verde to Lisbon to attend her estranged husband’s funeral, but misses the event itself because of cruel bureaucratic delays.
The prospect of spending an hour and a half with people lacking in notable virtue, alluring vice, or any apparent interest, may seem like an unproductive exercise in forced empathy—but consider this skepticism a function, as opposed to a fault, of these tightly orchestrated, seemingly soporific character studies.
Although there have always been intrepid critics and cinephiles who have engaged with films belonging to the non-narrative avant-garde, there has existed a perception that such films, operating as they do on somewhat different aesthetic precepts, could be considered a separate cinematic realm, one that even the most dutiful critic could engage with or not, as he or she saw fit.
Interviews No God But the Unknown Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci on Martin Eden by Jordan Cronk I See a Darkness: Pedro Costa on Vitalina More →
By Jordan Cronk “Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty More →
A moving study of mourning and memory, Pedro Costa’s revelatory new film offers an indelible portrait of Vitalina Taveres Varela, a fragile yet indomitable woman who makes the long voyage from Cape Verde to Lisbon to attend her estranged husband’s funeral, but misses the event itself because of cruel bureaucratic delays. More →
The prospect of spending an hour and a half with people lacking in notable virtue, alluring vice, or any apparent interest, may seem like an unproductive exercise in forced empathy—but consider this skepticism a function, as opposed to a fault, of these tightly orchestrated, seemingly soporific character studies. More →
Although there have always been intrepid critics and cinephiles who have engaged with films belonging to the non-narrative avant-garde, there has existed a perception that such films, operating as they do on somewhat different aesthetic precepts, could be considered a separate cinematic realm, one that even the most dutiful critic could engage with or not, as he or she saw fit. More →