FILM

My Lonely and Beautiful Country: On Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Kaya Genç analyzes the body of work of Turkey’s foremost contemporary filmmaker, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, through the lens of a recent academic monograph....

KAYA GENÇ

FILM

Is This Desire?: On Jane Campion’s Anguished New Epic, “The Power of the Dog”

Ryan Coleman considers the anguished, queer theology behind Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog.”...

RYAN COLEMAN

FILM

“Assa”: The Film that Brought Down the Soviet Union

Sam Kahn looks back at “Assa,” the 1987 cult film that put Soviet rock on the map. Its director, Sergei Solovyov, died on December 13, 2021....

SAM KAHN

AROUND THE WORLD

FILM

The Art and Science of Movies: The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is not a reliquary but a marquee....

KEVIN MCMAHON

FILM

Free Association: Fireflies Press and Contemporary Film Criticism

Holly Willis examines Fireflies Press’s journal and monograph series as artifacts of contemporary cinephilia....

HOLLY WILLIS

FILM

“A Hymn From the Mouth of Reality”: Obscenity, Psychosis, Sweetback

Matthew Tchepikova-Treon situates “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” in its cultural zeitgeist....

MATTHEW TCHEPIKOVA-TREON

FILM

Trespassing Borders: On Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s “Drive My Car”

Eugene Kwon examines how Hamaguchi Ryusuke thematizes traitorous adaptation in “Drive My Car,” a film reimagining of the short story by Murakami Haruki....

EUGENE KWON

FILM

Against Ethnic Absolutism: The Hybrid Cinema of Med Hondo

Giovanni Vimercati reviews an unprecedented three-volume set on African filmmaker Med Hondo....

GIOVANNI VIMERCATI

FILM

Having a Job Sucks: Talking Sex, Labor, and Pre-Code Cinema with Amalia Ulman

Eileen G’Sell sits down with actress-filmmaker Amalia Ulman about her film, “El Planeta.”...

EILEEN G’SELL

FILM

A Beautiful Mess: On “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

Emily Suzanne Johnson considers “The Eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker,” a richly detailed biopic that also happens to be a lost soul....

EMILY SUZANNE JOHNSON

FILM

Mysteries of the Visible

“Passing” reminds us that the raced body, like race itself, is an enigma of visual experience....

ANNE ANLIN CHENG

FILM

Flick and Feather: On Diana’s Hair

Sarah Mesle reckons with what Diana's hair, in Spencer and in real life, says about feminism, power, whiteness, and princesses...

SARAH MESLE

DEAR TELEVISION

FILM

The Oskar Schindler of Hollywood

A new documentary about Carl Laemmle explores the movie mogul’s humanitarian accomplishments....

CHRIS YOGERST

FILM

Discreet 16: On Suzanne Lindon’s “Spring Blossom”

Alice Blackhurst reviews a novel take on the coming-of-age genre, Suzanne Lindon’s film “Spring Blossom.”...

ALICE BLACKHURST

FILM

Learning How to Die in “The Green Knight”: Existential Dread, Ecological Despair, and the Last Days of Camelot

Wilson Taylor considers the existential, political, and environmental resonances of “The Green Knight” (dir. David Lowery, 2021)....

WILSON TAYLOR

FILM

Megan’s Body: On Bringing Back Megan Fox

Philippa Snow dissects the dark, sexy star text of Megan Fox....

PHILIPPA SNOW

FILM

The Property of a Lady?: On Lashana Lynch — the First Black Female 007

Colin Burnett explores the racial politics of the Bond franchise in the wake of a new Black woman agent joining the latest film, “No Time to Die.”...

COLIN BURNETT

FILM

Memories of a Musical Journey

Madeleine Thien on the documentary “Beethoven in Beijing,” directed by Jennifer Lin and Sharon Mullally....

MADELEINE THIEN

FILM

Screening Deafness

Lennard Davis reviews “CODA” in the context of a recent cycle of films about Deafness and CODA (children of Deaf adults)....

LENNARD J. DAVIS

FILM

Historicizing Dystopia: Suburban Fantastic Media and White Millennial Childhood

Angus McFadzean explores the nostalgic and technophobic motives of the recent boom in suburban fantastic media....

ANGUS MCFADZEAN

FILM

Modes of Contempt: Therapists, Thrillers, and Therapist Thrillers

Ali Raz considers the “therapist thriller,” in which the talking cure stands in for the diagnostic rigors of the Hollywood screenwriting formula....

ALI RAZ

FILM

Alternative Archivists: On Jill Li’s “Lost Course”

Xueli Wang examines how Jill Li and the subjects of her documentary “Lost Course” archive an alternative history of Chinese dissent....

XUELI WANG

FILM

Beloved Objects: Two Books on Queer Fandom

Charles O’Malley compares two recent memoirs that explore queer attachments to and identification with popular culture....

CHARLES O’MALLEY

FILM

The Genre Guantánamo Made

With the recent releasee of "The Mauritanian," Miriam Pensack considers the legacy of Guantánamo Bay in music, movies, books, and art....

MIRIAM PENSACK

FILM

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