Anna Shechtman and D.A. Miller Crimes Against Humanity The precondition for making it with anyone in David Cronenberg’s cinema is making it new. June 28, 2022
James Quandt A Camera Light as a Pen A film series and two recent books expand the canon of the French New Wave. June 23, 2022 issue
Namwali Serpell ‘She’s Capital!’ The figure of the Whore is everywhere in art, her beauty to be gazed upon and admired. With the Internet, has she finally found her own artistic terrain? July 21, 2022 issue
Victoria Baena Altars of Novelty and Profit Xavier Giannoli’s new adaptation of Balzac’s Lost Illusions follows an aspiring poet in post-Revolutionary Paris and his precarious alliance with an unruly press. June 16, 2022
Dennis Zhou ‘Poet of the Camera’ What made the Hollywood cinematographer James Wong Howe a consummate artist was his ability to cohere his experiences into a visual style. June 3, 2022
Erica X Eisen Memories of the Metaverse Was Chris Marker’s romance with the online platform Second Life a departure from his creative and political aims, or the consummation of them? June 7, 2022
Cathleen Schine Subjects of Considerable Gossip Greta Garbo craved protection, and one such guardian was Salka Viertel, a nearly forgotten screenwriter who nurtured a community of fellow émigrés in postwar Hollywood. June 9, 2022 issue
J. Hoberman Romanian Masquerades In Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn,’ Bucharest is half built and half derelict—a semiotic jungle and a ruin waiting to happen. March 24, 2022 issue
Sheila Liming Old Story, New Money The Gilded Age plunders Edith Wharton’s books for period-appropriate ideas but revels in all the surfaces Wharton sought to puncture. August 3, 2022
Simon Callow Shape-Shifters In The Method Isaac Butler traces the evolution of an acting theory that was both ferociously denounced and fanatically embraced. August 18, 2022 issue
J. Hoberman Framing Babyn Yar Sergei Loznitsa’s documentaries, sourced from archival propaganda, have drawn criticism for what they do not show. March 29, 2022
Elvia Wilk Corpus Meets Corpse The intricate and densely referential video work of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley confronts standard history with the fact of the body. April 7, 2022 issue
Colm Tóibín The Secrets of Others In Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar goes beyond his familiar themes of sex and motherhood and into new territory: the legacy of the Spanish Civil War. March 10, 2022 issue
Andrew O’Hagan Riffraff Billy Wilder’s evolution from interwar stylist to hard-bitten realist. February 24, 2022 issue
Mark Yakich Language Is the Game in ‘Ted Lasso’ Whitman and Joyce may seem unlikely references for a sports sitcom—unless we’ve been reading the show all wrong. January 19, 2022
James Shapiro Shakespeare Noir There are moments in The Tragedy of Macbeth when Shakespeare and Joel Coen feel in perfect alignment. January 13, 2022 issue
Edwidge Danticat Haiti Reframed By bringing to life on screen a neighborhood poised between trouble and joy, Gessica Généus’s Freda offers a richly textured dissent from infantilizing accounts of her country. December 21, 2021
J. Hoberman A Conceptual Artist of Cinema Now ninety-two, the Canadian filmmaker Michael Snow is receiving a retrospective of a career that brought a playful avant-garde sensibility to the moving image. December 3, 2021
