Embittered Spinster
"Get the word out while there is still time: poetry is fatal, especially to unmarried women." Johanna Drucker on "A Quiet Passion."...
After the Facts
What can a 1957 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy movie tell us about the fate of middle-class jobs?...
His Emily Dickinson: The Visual Poetics of Terence Davies’s “A Quiet Passion”
Kathleen B. Jones interviews director Terence Davies and reviews his new film about Emily Dickinson....
The Spirit of Things: On “Personal Shopper”
Francey Russell on the specters that haunt "Personal Shopper."...
Fictions of Temperament
Alex Weintraub on the truthiness of "Cézanne et Moi."...
The Ghost in the Ghost
Anne Anlin Cheng on "Ghost in the Shell."...
Notes of Actuality: A New Anthology Documenting the Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
Kevin McMahon finds that the “Writings” of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet enrich our appreciation of their films....
Big Oil’s High-Risk Love Affair with Film
Big oil and Hollywood came of age together....
Pussy Wars
“Ovarian Psycos” and “Antibirth” take up the biology of the feminized body, but anatomy doesn’t determine their politics....
“Toni Erdmann” and the Anti-Hollywood Ending
Why does Maren Ade end "Toni Erdmann" where she does?...
By Immigrants, For Immigrants: Why “Casablanca” Still Matters
Noah Gittell on Noah Isenberg's "We'll Always Have Casablanca."...
Skip the Words, Read the Pictures
Jonathan Shapiro on Edward Sorel's "Mary Astor's Purple Diary."...
