July 2012
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The Smuggler
The legacy and continuing relevance of the French critic Serge Daney
by Jordan Mintzer posted July 17, 2012
June 2012
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The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends
by J. Hoberman posted June 28, 2012
February 2012
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Right and Wrong
The film criticism of conservative pundit Ross Douthat
by Tom McCormack posted February 23, 2012
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Poetics of Motion
The propulsive energy of William Wellman's pre-Code films
by Nick Pinkerton posted February 15, 2012
July 2011
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Keep Moving
Cinephile fashions and the hybrid films of Nicolás Pereda
by Michael Sicinski posted July 7, 2011
April 2011
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The Time to Sing
A conversation with director, actor, DJ, and critic Serge Bozon
by Miriam Bale posted April 14, 2011
March 2011
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Crisis, Creation, Compulsion
The great genre director Raoul Walsh and his cinema of the individual
by Dave Kehr posted March 22, 2011
February 2011
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The Searcher
Joseph McBride's landmark biographies and the craft of film scholarship
by Paul Brunick posted February 22, 2011
January 2011
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Zoom Out, Pan Around
Radical Light and the expanding frame of avant-garde cinema criticism
by Tom McCormack posted January 10, 2011
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Moments of 2010
Our contributors and colleagues pick the past year's moving image highlights
by Various Writers posted January 1, 2011
September 2010
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Arthur Penn, 1922–2010
An American auteur's decades-long struggle against the Hollywood machine
by Michael Chaiken and Paul Cronin posted September 30, 2010
August 2010
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The Mosaic Approach
In defense of a nonlinear film criticism
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted August 18, 2010
July 2010
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Madness and Civilization
Monsieur Verdoux and the meaning of Chaplin's cinema
by Tom McCormack posted July 22, 2010
June 2010
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Wood's Dilemma
A look back at the landmark essay "Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic"
by Tom McCormack posted June 17, 2010
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Reinterpreting the Gods
Remembering Robin Wood, film critic and classical auteurist
by Tom McCormack posted June 16, 2010
March 2010
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Psycho Analyzed
The Hitchcock classic at 50, still inspiring discussion and debate
by David Sterritt posted March 2, 2010
October 2009
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Falling From Grace
The female Christ figures of Lars von Trier's films
by Joshua Land posted October 2, 2009
September 2009
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The Farber Mystery
Canonizing the work of American film criticism's most remarkable figure
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted September 22, 2009
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The Festival Whirl
The utopian possibilities—and dystopian realities—of the modern film festival
by Richard Porton posted September 8, 2009
August 2009
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Our Man in London
The nuanced and endlessly suggestive film criticism of Graham Greene
by Michael Atkinson posted August 21, 2009
May 2009
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Present Tense
Benjamin Button and a passive hero's route toward happiness
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted May 8, 2009
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Time Regained
Remembering Julien Duvivier, a casualty of auteurism
by Michael Atkinson posted May 4, 2009
April 2009
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Collecting His Thoughts
Remarks on the writing of Hollis Frampton
by Bruce Jenkins posted April 21, 2009
March 2009
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The Substance of Style, Pt 1
Wes Anderson and his pantheon of heroes (Schulz, Welles, Truffaut)
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted March 30, 2009
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Movie Love
Film-history tidbits in a monument to French cinephilia
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted March 5, 2009
February 2009
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The Vanishing
The demise of VHS, and the movies disappearing along with it
by Anthony Kaufman posted February 26, 2009
January 2009
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Independent America, 1978-1988
Myths of the new narrative (and a few counter-suggestions)
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted January 26, 2009
November 2008
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Divide and Conquer
A world of possibilities in the unstudied field of DVD chaptering
by Adrian Martin posted November 6, 2008
October 2008
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The Master Touch
Orson Welles's baroque thriller—and final Hollywood movie—turns 50
by Tom Charity posted October 9, 2008
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His Will on Film
The defiant irresolution of late-period Oshima
by Rob Nelson posted October 1, 2008
September 2008
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Bringing Up Hawks
Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell on the discovery of an auteur
by David Schwartz posted September 25, 2008
August 2008
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Manny Farber (1917-2008)
A conversation with Paul Schrader about the late painter and critic
by David Schwartz posted August 19, 2008
June 2008
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The Long View
An anthology of defining moments looks back—and forward
by Tom Charity posted June 19, 2008
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He's Not There
A new biography takes on the ever-elusive Jean-Luc Godard
by B. Kite posted June 4, 2008
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The Outsider
Arthur Penn's decades-long struggle against the Hollywood machine
by Michael Chaiken and Paul Cronin posted June 4, 2008