Columns

Bearing Witness: The Load and Depth Two

By Imogen Sara Smith

August 29, 2019

On the road: two films by Ognjen Glavonic explore the same grim events through documentary and narrative fiction

Queer & Now & Then: 2019

By Michael Koresky

August 28, 2019

Looking back: Lucio Castro’s End of the Century is a temporally unexpected work in which possible pasts and potential futures intermingle to create an unstable now

Deep Focus: Ready or Not

By Michael Sragow

August 23, 2019

Bored games: the clumsy horror comedy pitches its blood-and-guts flakiness too absurdly high

Present Tense: Female Comedians

By Sheila O'Malley

August 23, 2019

Yes, and: why comedy and improv often produce some of the greatest actors

Queer & Now & Then: 1951

By Michael Koresky

August 14, 2019

School days: Jacqueline Audry’s melodrama Olivia all but luxuriates in an always imminent queer lust

Feeling Seen: A Day of Us

By Jaime Grijalba

August 8, 2019

Animal magnetism: a Korean animated web-series touches upon the small truths of living with a partner

Present Tense: Out of the Blue

By Sheila O'Malley

August 8, 2019

Into the black: Dennis Hopper's doom-ridden, death-stalked film takes punk rock at its word

Higher Learning: Chromatic Modernity

By Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe

August 2, 2019

Technicolor dreams: our modern sense of color as a standardized commodity is intertwined with the history of cinema

Classified: Eco-Horror

By April Wolfe

July 29, 2019

Natural reactions: cinema’s history of depicting nature as brute force equalizer and death dealer

Present Tense: Back-ting

By Sheila O'Malley

July 25, 2019

Can’t look away: the nearly lost art of acting with back to the camera