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Max Nelson

Review: Black Nativity

By Max Nelson
November 29, 2013
A star-studded update of a Langston Hughes play is more flash than feeling

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