Film

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Miami Melancholia
The world depicted in “Moonlight” is an internal colony, abandoned by the state’s supposed benevolence, and stuck serving its ends through suffering.
Matt SandlerDec 16, 2016
- Film
What We’ve Got Here: “Arrival”
What is "Arrival" saying?
Jordan BrowerDec 12, 2016
- Film
“Home Guards”: A Film About Modern-Day Hungary or an Ode to Neo-Nazis?
“Home Guards” is, whatever its director says, a film for the far right.
Nanda DyssouDec 9, 2016
- Around the World
- Film
Why Moviegoing Matters
Moviegoing, like roller-skating and rotary telephone use, is in decline.
Graham DaselerDec 5, 2016
- Film
“The Handmaiden”’s Ars Erotica
Marta Figlerowicz considers the contradictions of Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden."
Marta FiglerowiczDec 2, 2016
- Film
A Train, an Old Guy with a Banjo, a Chained Dog: On Jeff Silva and Vic Rawlings’s “Linefork”
Peter Trachtenberg reflects on the work of music and the music of work in “Linefork.”
Peter TrachtenbergNov 28, 2016
- Film
- Music
Callin’ from the Fun House: Jim Jarmusch’s “Gimme Danger”
Derek Nystrom on the The Stooges's relation to 1960s radicalism and their contribution to the queer genealogy of punk.
Derek NystromNov 25, 2016
- Film
- Music
“Doctor Strange” and the Trump Presidency
"Doctor Strange" grasps the deepest ideological fantasies of our era: On both the left and the right, we yearn to revise the catastrophes we couldn't stop.
David M. HigginsNov 19, 2016
The Personal is Political: A Conversation on Race, Love, and “Loving”
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks to Jeff Nichols, director of "Loving," "Midnight Special," and "Mud."
Janice Rhoshalle LittlejohnNov 17, 2016
- Cultural Studies
- Film
An Education: On Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight”
Francey Russell on Barry Jenkins's coming-of-age film.
Francey RussellNov 14, 2016
- Film
Up Too-Close and Personal
Dudley Andrew on D. A. Miller's "Hidden Hitchcock."
Dudley AndrewNov 11, 2016
- Film
Why We Don’t Need Another Hero (Film): Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation”
Kenneth W. Warren on the problems of Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation."
Kenneth W. WarrenNov 4, 2016
- Film