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Max Nelson

Let’s Make a Deal: Faust on Film

By Max Nelson
November 14, 2013
From Murnau to noir to Sokurov, a look at versions of the enduring tale

50 Years of Film Comment: Part Five

By Max Nelson
November 13, 2013
The new millennium: Gavin Smith's editorship

50 Years of Film Comment: Part Four

By Max Nelson
November 13, 2013
The auterist Nineties: the Richard T. Jameson era

50 Years of Film Comment Part Three

By Max Nelson
November 7, 2013
Into the Eighties: Harlan Jacobson's tenure

50 Years of Film Comment: Part Two

By Max Nelson
November 7, 2013
From Richard Corliss to Harlan Jacobson

Off the Blacklist: The Films of Jan Němec

By Max Nelson
November 6, 2013
A retrospective at BAM gives the Czech New Waver his due

50 Years of Film Comment

By Max Nelson
November 4, 2013
Back when it was just Vision: from the founding days of Gordon Hitchens to Richard Corliss

Critical Dialogue: Blue Is the Warmest Color

By Max Nelson
October 29, 2013
Female trouble: is Abdellatif Kechiche's adaptation of budding lesbian sexuality exploitative or tenderly subjective?

Review: Carrie

By Max Nelson
October 19, 2013
Is the thrill gone? Kimberly Peirce draws a fresh bloodbath for the infamous outcast

Interview: Nathaniel Dorsky

By Max Nelson
October 15, 2013
Reaching out: a conversation with the empathic director of devotional cinema

Rep Diary: Gabriel & Creation

By Max Nelson
September 9, 2013
Gabriel, Agnes Martin's only film, and Stan Brakhage's Creation get their due at Anthology Film Archives

Archive Pick: Lost & Found: American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive

By Max Nelson
August 22, 2013
(National Film Preservation Foundation, $24.98)

Review: Bastards

By Max Nelson
August 22, 2013
(Claire Denis, France, 2013)

Review: Trouble Every Day

By Max Nelson
August 22, 2013
(Claire Denis, France, 2001)

Critical Dialogue: The Canyons

By Max Nelson
August 9, 2013
Leave Lindsay alone! Considering the foul and favorable reactions to The Canyons

Review: Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

By Max Nelson
August 1, 2013
Jamel Shabazz's spontaneous, unforced photography provides a poignant look at early-Eighties New York

Critical Dialogue: YouTube

By Max Nelson
July 23, 2013
Here comes everyone, misappropriating Andy Warhol and the Pop idea

Review: Pacific Rim

By Max Nelson
July 11, 2013
Holy kaiju! Guillermo del Toro's mega-mecha blockbuster is relentless

Review: Byzantium

By Max Nelson
June 25, 2013
Neil Jordan's latest suggests that maybe immortality isn't so bad after all

Museums on Film

By Max Nelson
June 22, 2013
Looking at art that looks at art