Features

All Thumbs: Or, Is There a Future for Film Criticism?

By Richard Corliss

July 1, 2014

From the March/April 1990 issue: Richard Corliss attacks thumbs-up film criticism culture

Keeping the Faith

By Joumane Chahine

April 29, 2014

From the Prophet Mohammed to Michael Myers and beyond: the unlikely two-track career of director-producer Moustapha Akkad

Alain Resnais

By Peter Harcourt

March 3, 2014

“Memory is kept alive with dreams”

Prince Rob

By Harlan Jacobson

February 12, 2014

Rob Reiner interviewed

Red Modernism

By J. Hoberman

February 4, 2014

In Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó's informal late-Sixties trilogy, geometry and choreography are key

George Cukor

By Andrew Sarris

December 19, 2013

I met George Cukor only once in my life, and then only very briefly, but I have enjoyed the movies he directed through most of my other life up there on the screen, and I thought that

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Heard It Through the Grapevine

By Tony Rayns

September 26, 2013

Jia Zhang-ke reads the uncensored news on Weibo and responds with the groundbreaking A Touch of Sin

Russ Meyer interviewed by Ed Lowry and Louis Black

By Louis Black

August 12, 2013

Rednecks and Big Knockers: What's your 10-20?

The Noise Factor

By Larry Gross

July 10, 2013

Paul Schrader! Bret Easton Ellis! Lindsay Lohan! James Deen! Embracing the new economics of the digital age, a veteran writer-director goes DIY to create a vision of modernity’s moral emptiness

An Exceptional Vintage

By Maitland McDonagh

June 28, 2013

What makes the crime thrillers of Seventies Italian filmmaker Fernando Di Leo superior to standard grind-house fare?