Yuri Tynianov’s “Film — Word — Music” (1924)
Vera Koshkina and Ainsley Morse present “Film — Word — Music,” a 1924 essay on film by the great Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov....
Betty Davis, Grace Jones, and the Art of Anti-Confessional Cinema
Daphne Brooks on "Betty: They Say I'm Different" and "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami."...
Caring for Capitalism
"The Bleeding Edge" is a contemporary portrait of how a misguided quest for innovation is eroding the forms of connection that make us human....
David Lynch’s Sacred Clay
Does David Lynch and Kristine McKenna's hybrid biography-memoir "Room to Dream" offer the key to unlocking Lynch's film work?...
Plenty
Anne Anlin Cheng on Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary "Generation Wealth."...
From Hystorians to Bolex Dudes: The Many Descendants of Barbara Hammer
In a series of interviews with the filmmakers influenced by Barbara Hammer, Sarah Fonseca considers how the pioneering lesbian filmmaker broke new ground....
Exercises in Self-Destruction: On Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed”
"First Reformed" is a serious exercise in thinking through faith and despair, but at the same time it indulges unabashedly in oneiric pleasures....
Writer’s Brains: The Lasting Worth of Alfred Hayes
Alex Harvey surveys the career of Alfred Hayes, a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and screenwriter....
Los Angeles Pictured
Joshua Glick's "Los Angeles Documentary" is an encouragement to engage, now, with documentaries being made at the grassroots level by activist filmmakers....
“Color of Reality”: Jon Boogz, Lil Buck, and Black Lives in Livid Color
"Color of Reality" is a eulogy for all black men who dare step into three-dimensionality....
New Black Gothic
Sheri-Marie Harrison on "This Is America," "Get Out," "Sing, Unburied, Sing," and the new black Gothic....
Speeding Up Chekhov
Michael Mayer’s adaptation of “The Seagull” continues the tradition in American entertainment of fast-talking dames....
