Features

Interview: Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Jonathan Romney

March 13, 2019

The mind behind the massively ambitious Dau discusses the mysterious, "pluridisciplinary" project

Ice Age

By Aliza Ma

March 6, 2019

With An Elephant Sitting Still, Hu Bo leaves behind a shattering final testament to China’s postindustrial no-hopers

Neither Here Nor There

By Imogen Sara Smith

March 1, 2019

Always leaving or being left behind, the refugee protagonists of Christian Petzold's Transit circulate on the tides of war and history

The Point of No Return

By Nick Pinkerton

March 1, 2019

Claire Denis’s volatile High Life bonds sex and death drives through the space voyage of convicts condemned to the void

Higher Learning: The Unwatchable

By W.J.T. Mitchell

February 26, 2019

See no evil: what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable,” whether disturbing, revolting, poor quality, tedious, or literally inaccessible?

Triumph of the Will

By J. Hoberman

February 5, 2019

Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics

Higher Learning: A Greater Los Angeles

By Laura Isabel Serna and Colin Gunckel

January 14, 2019

New Hollywood: Mexican-born critic and playwright Gabriel Navarro brought together a rich world of uniquely Mexican-American culture in the first decades of the 20th century

Arthur Edeson and the ASC 100th

By Nicolas Rapold

January 8, 2019

Pretty as a picture: celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Society of Cinematographers with the director of Casablanca (or photos thereof)

Outside the Main Stream

By Michael Koresky

January 2, 2019

The movies we love are ours forever—or are they?

The Future Is Getting Here

By Nicolas Rapold

January 2, 2019

By any standard, American cinema changed course this year