Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Features

Talking in Circles

By Nick Pinkerton
October 4, 2016
In the era of social media, criticism may be losing sight of film itself

I Am a Camera

By Michael Koresky
September 6, 2016
Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson harnesses her life’s work to define a filmmaking philosophy in Cameraperson

The Great Recession

By Shonni Enelow
September 6, 2016
Restrained but resilient, a style of acting has taken hold that speaks to an era’s anxieties

Shooting the Messenger

By Eric Hynes
August 23, 2016
A critic discovers that the nonfiction film experiments of today read a lot like the 
New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Film as Art: Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick

By Richard Combs
August 17, 2016
We'll meet again: an extensive U.K. exhibition of multimedia work plays with the notion of the Kubrickian

You’re the One for Me, Fatty

By Scott Eyman
July 11, 2016
Fast and bulbous: in early shorts costarring a young Buster Keaton, the notorious slapstick comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was able to show off his full range of talents

The Weight of the World

By Andrew Chan
July 5, 2016
Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing lets us feel the bare fact of existence for people caught in time’s tide

Hiding in Plain Sight

By Nick Davis
July 5, 2016
The casual complexity and low-key intensity of Kristen Stewart

Beyond These Gates

By Ashley Clark
July 5, 2016
Overlooked and stereotyped, black performers of the silent era today stand out for their talents

Heavenly Host

By Max Nelson
July 5, 2016
For more than 50 years, Nathaniel Dorsky has been welcoming viewers into a gracious empire of light