Christopher Nolan in Command: The Dunkirk Spirit Fleshed
How does Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" differ from earlier on-screen iterations of the evacuation?...
Stumbling Through Pixel Blizzards: Recent Books on Post-Cinema
Holly Willis surveys three new books about what it means to be post-cinema....
Transformative Suffering
Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo on what Alejandro González Iñárritu's VR installation "Carne y Arena" could teach us about suffering....
The Fictions of Documentary: An Interview with Charles Fairbanks
Simon Schatzberg interviews Charles Fairbanks about “The Modern Jungle,” his documentary portrait of modern life in an indigenous Zoque community in Mexico....
Between Her Body and the Stain
How does one maintain a self when losing an other who is also one's “self”?...
The Uses of Beauty: On “Daughters of the Dust” and Diasporic Inheritance
The Sea Islands might seem like a small place. But every point in diaspora is the cutting edge if you have the nerve to touch it....
Yawn with the Wind
"The Beguiled" is a movie about bored white women in rigorous pursuit of fantasy....
Privatizing the Putin Presidency
The Celluloid Liberation Front on Oliver Stone's "The Putin Interviews" and how it feeds the myth of Vladimir Putin....
From Sex Worker as Character to Sex Worker as Producer: A Review of Nicholas de Villier’s “Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary”
Nicholas de Villiers new book gives a fresh view on films about sex work by focusing on documentaries about sex workers, a genre that he calls “sexography.”...
The Warrior Class
J. D. Connor on "War Machine" and the cult of the warrior-scholar....
Cybersexism in Three Acts
Richard Grusin reviews Laura Poitras's "Risk," her look at Julian Assange....
Just Like the First Time? Revisiting “Beauty and the Beast” and “Trainspotting”
How does "Beauty and the Beast" express its own status as a fetish object? Sarah Chihaya on the right and wrong way to revisit a franchise....
