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Teapot Dome Pitch Meeting: Edward Doheny, Albert Fall, and Cecil B. DeMille
In the fifth installment in an ongoing series, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on the convergence of politics and cultural power in early Hollywood.
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers
Paranoia, Perspicacity, and Afro-Asian Pessimism
Anne Anlin Cheng looks deeper into Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” and its violent exploration of racial oppression.
Wave to the Camera
Grant Sharples interviews the filmmaker Alex Ross Perry about “Pavements,” his unconventional new feature about the band.
Becoming a Woman Who Screams
Gabrielle McClellan watches Durga Chew-Bose’s debut feature film “Bonjour Tristesse.”
The Empress
Oliver Wang interviews legendary Chinese American actress Lisa Lu about her 65-year film career.
In Defense of the Free Auteur
David Louis Zuckerman explores crisis and awakening in Amalia Ulman’s film, “Magic Farm,” at the 2025 Los Angeles Festival of Movies.
Avenging Angels
Travis Alexander considers what Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity” can teach us about Luigi Mangione and the insurance crisis.
Making Art Under Fascism
Kai Maristed reviews the new translation of Austro-German author Daniel Kehlmann’s 2023 novel “The Director,” translated by Ross Benjamin.
So Unnaturally Slow
Matthew K. Ritchie considers Carson Lund’s “Eephus” and the feeling of being washed-up.
Mann Men
Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Down the Manson Rabbit Hole
Abby Aguirre considers Errol Morris’s new documentary “CHAOS: The Manson Murders.”
Passing in Black-and-White
Akanksha Singh reviews Mayukh Sen’s “Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star.”
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