“Two Catalonias”’s Pact of Forgetting
“Two Catalonias” makes no mention of the Spanish Civil War, an elision that is representative of Spain’s refusal to contend with the war’s lasting effects....
Housekeeping’s Patron Saint
"Roma" is a movie made to appease the ruling class: fawning in its praise of power, it dead-ends at an image that literally deifies servitude....
A Film by Bertolt Brecht
"Mack the Knife — Brecht’s Threepenny Film" is part-biopic, part-homage, part-metacinematic staging of a film that shouldn’t actually exist — but now does....
A Comprehensive Guide to the Entertainment Industry
Michael Donaldson evaluates Corey Field's "Entertainment Law: Fundamentals and Practice."...
Center Court
"The Favourite" reminds us that the court isn't a primitive version of modern political power but an altogether different institution....
The Grief of Others: A Conversation with Filmmaker Patrick Wang
A major independent filmmaker on the challenges of adaptation and the power of grief....
The Melodic Variations of “Cold War”
"Cold War" places its bets on the capacity of a small but carefully told story to embody historical tensions and tragedies much broader than itself....
Beautifying Beale Street
"What do we lose when we forget 'Beale Street’s' ugliness, its flaws, its darkness?" On Barry Jenkins's adaptation of "If Beale Street Could Talk."...
Eisenstein versus Sinclair: H. W. L. Dana and “¡Que Viva México!”
Angela Shpolberg provides a blow-by-blow account of the conflict between Upton Sinclair, Sergei Eisenstein, H. W. L. Dana, and Stalin....
Last Man: On Claire Denis’s “High Life”
"The film is not just about violence, the film is itself violent and the audience suffers this directly." Francey Russell on "High Life."...
Norway, Somalia, and the Specters of Terror
A British filmmaker and a Somali novelist explore migration, radicalization, and terror....
A Look in the Mirror: A Conversation with Marianna Yarovskaya About “Women of the Gulag”
Lydia Roberts speaks to award-winning filmmaker Marianna Yarovskaya, whose latest documentary is “Women of the Gulag.”...
