The Hills Are Alive: “Pet Sematary” and the Horror of Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom
Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo digs up Mary Lambert’s original 1989 film adaptation of the Stephen King novel “Pet Sematary.”...
Scientific Rebirth
“Genesis 2.0” is a panoramic master class in the strange unmodernity of modern science....
Films Without Borders: An Interview with Christian Petzold
Gregg LaGambina talks to director Christian Petzold about his new film, "Transit."...
The Return of the Return of the Repressed
“Peele wants to make clear just how long a nation can delude itself about what’s real.” Sarah Wasserman and Kinohi Nishikawa review “Us.”...
Hearing Gregor Samsa
Nathan Goldman reviews Kata Gellen’s “Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism.”...
Love App-tually: Grindr and Queer Cinema
Kyle Turner on how queer dating and hookup app Grindr has changed LGBTQ cinema....
Hell Down in Hollywood: On Duke Haney’s “Death Valley Superstars”
Peter L. Winkler plumbs the depths of “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland” by Duke Haney....
A Knack for Embracing Impermanence: On Pico Iyer’s “Autumn Light”
A new memoir about coming to terms with aging and death....
Une Française à Los Angeles: Remembering Agnès Varda
There are many ways to remember Agnès Varda — I will remember her time as an L.A. outsider and the first memories of the city that she gave me....
Christian Petzold’s Anti-Speculative Fiction
"Transit" offers the unreassuring thrill of a reasonable, intelligent person having the nerve to say, clearly, just how bad he thinks things are....
Thirteen Ways of Looking at “High Flying Bird”
"High Flying Bird’s" Lukácsian dramatization of class struggle remains trapped, visually and narratively, in a neoliberal perceptual apparatus....
Death and Magic
In Darío Guerrero’s “Rocío,” dying is as wondrous as life itself....
