CINEASTE
America’s Leading Magazine
on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
Published quarterly, and appearing regularly since 1967, Cineaste is today internationally recognized as one of America's foremost film magazines. An independent publication, with no financial ties to the film industry or academic institutions, Cineaste features contributions from many of America's most articulate and outspoken writers, critics, and scholars. Focusing on both the art and politics of the cinema, and always stressing a popular, readable style displayed in an attractive, lavishly illustrated format, Cineaste offers colorful and thought-provoking coverage of the entire world of cinema, including:~Probing and informative interviews with directors, screenwriters, performers and other creative and technical film production personnel.
~Feature articles on topical issues and contemporary film trends.
~In-depth reviews of the latest Hollywood movies, independent productions and foreign films.
~Regular coverage of films from developing nations in the Third World.
~Critical symposiums and debates on such controversial films as JFK, Do the Right Thing, Thelma & Louise, Boyz N the Hood, and Malcolm X.
~Special supplements on such subjects as Central and Eastern European Cinema, The Arab Image in American Cinema, The Restoration of Spartacus, Sound and Music in the Movies, and Contemporary Irish Cinema.
~A continuing series on "Race in Contemporary American Cinema."
~Regular columns such as "Book Reviews," "Homevideo," "A Second Look," and "Short Takes."
Partial List of Previous Interviews
Pauline Kael ~Edward Norton ~Kenneth Branagh ~Catherine Breillat ~Nei~Jordan ~Atom Egoyan ~Costa Gavras ~Bernardo Bertolucci ~Arthur Penn ~Mike Leigh ~Susan Sarandon ~François Truffaut ~Spike Lee ~Robert Altman ~Oliver Stone ~Francesco Rosi ~Andrzej Wajda ~John Sayles ~Jean Rouch ~Hal Hartley ~Marlon Riggs ~Paolo and Vittorio Taviani ~Charles Chaplin ~Jack Lemmon ~Akira Kurosawa ~Barbara Kopple ~Julie Christie ~Gian Maria Volonté ~Edward Asner ~Lizzie Borden ~David Lynch ~F. Murray Abraham ~Wes Craven ~Budd Schulberg ~Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ~Peter Greenaway ~Derek Jarman ~Monika Treut ~Terence Davies ~Zhang Yimou ~Ross McElwee ~Frederick Wiseman ~Louis Malle ~Barbet Schroeder ~Reginald and Warrington Hudlin ~David Cronenberg ~Paul Schrader ~Sally Potter ~Tilda Swinton ~Spalding Gray ~Walter Bernstein ~Gordon Parks, Sr. ~Melvin Van Peebles ~Bruce Beresford ~Lindsay Anderson ~Wayne Wang ~Jean-Claude Carrière ~Jorge Semprun ~Sidney Poitier ~Satyajit Ray ~Agnès Varda ~Istvan Szabo ~Santiago Alvarez ~Wim Wenders ~Richard Price ~Ken Loach ~Gianni Amelio ~Freddie Young ~Abbas Kiarostami ~Gregory Nava ~Ulu Grosbard ~Marlene Gorris ~Maria Maggenti ~Mark Rappaport ~Lee Tamahori ~Ennio Morricone ~Tian Zhuangzhuang ~Edward Zwick ~Todd Solondz ~Nanni Moretti ~Isaac Julien ~Jim Jarmusch ~Tim Robbins ~Pantelis Voulgaris ~Helke Sander ~Robert A. Harris ~John Schlesinger ~Rosaura Revueltas ~Denys Arcand ~Joe Bob Briggs ~Carlos Diegues ~Omar Sharif ~Margarethe von Trotta ~Hector Babenco ~Jules Dassin ~Martin Ritt ~Alan Parker ~Michae~Palin ~Erro~Morris ~Bertrand Tavernier ~Alex Cox ~Krystyna Janda ~Emile de Antonio ~Cheech Marin ~Robert Redford ~Euzhan Palcy ~Julio Garcia Espinosa ~Robert Young ~Maria Luisa Bemberg ~Theodoros Angelopoulos ~Leon Hirszman ~Joris Ivens ~Hermes Pan ~Edward Asner ~Agnieszka HollandPartial List of Previous Feature Articles
The Making of The Battle of Algiers ~The Politics of Warren Beatty's Bulworth ~If Only Life Were So Beautiful ~Anarchists on Film: From Mad Bombers to Secular Saints ~Gods and Monsters: The Search for the Right Whale ~The Battle Over Orson Welles ~The Powel~and Pressburger Mystery ~Francesco Rosi: Italy's Postmodern Neorealist ~Lesbians Make Movies ~Leni Riefenstahl: The Devil's Director ~No Blacks or Whites: The Making of Luis Buñuel's The Young One ~Woody Allen's New York ~Why the Dearth of Latino Directors? ~Fellini and Politics ~Who Wrote What?: A Tale of a Blacklisted Screenwriter and His Front ~The Utopian Dialectics of Science Fiction Films ~Lawrence of Arabia: The Cinematic (Re)Writing of History ~Reflections on Roger & Me, Michae~Moore and His Critics ~The Films of Spike Lee ~Young Misogynists of American Cinema ~Bazin Before Cahiers ~Elia Kazan Reconsidered ~The Costa-Gavras Syndrome ~Pedro Almodóvar and the Camp Esthetic ~The Bionic Eye: Zoom Esthetics ~The Working Class Goes to Hollywood ~Porno Power ~The Politics of Spy Films ~The Communist Party in Hollywood ~Monty Python's Flying Circus ~Frank Capra and the Popular Front ~New Theory and Criticism of the Musical ~Platoon on Inspection ~Malpractice in the Radical American Documentary ~Cinema in Vietnam ~Buster Keaton ~Glasnost in Soviet Cinema ~The Death of Cinesemiology ~Poland's Cinema of Moral Dissent ~New Gay Images in the Cinema ~The Politics of Compromise in Hollywood ~The Abortion Film Wars ~Italian Westerns as Political Parables ~Racism in South African Cinema ~Hollywood and Vietnam ~The Early Films of Luis Buñue~~Politically Correct Pocahontas? ~The Truth About Babe ~The Writers Guild vs. The Blacklist ~Oliver Stone's Nixon and the American Nightmare ~On the Rebound: Hoop Dreams and Its Discontents ~Buster Keaton, or The Work of Comedy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ~The Political Economy of Black Film ~Newt Goes to Boys Town ~The Making of David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai ~Pulp Friction: Two Shots at Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction ~Spike Lee's Clockers: A Lament for the Urban Ghetto ~Screen History: New Documentaries on the Tiananmen Events in ChinaCritical Praise
"Sick of all the fluff on film? Looking for serious criticism? Cineaste is a great alternative to all that junk at the check-out counter. Cineaste bills itself as 'America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema.' To this title it aspires aggressively, with gusto as well as erudition. It is aimed at the connoisseur, the professor and student, and the professional."-Small Magazine Review"A trenchant, eternally zestful magazine...in the forefront of American film periodicals. Radical in mind, catholic in spirit, Cineaste always has something worth reading and it permits its writers more space to develop ideas than most magazines."-The International Film Guide
"This journal delivers what it promises. Its pages are packed with politically oriented material on both American and foreign films...the articles are clear, straightforward, and rational."-Magazines for Libraries
"Critical, perceptive and well-written."-Library Journal
"We...heartily recommend subscriptions to the easiest-to-read international film journal in America."-Joe Bob Briggs, The Joe Bob Report
"Students and faculty alike can profit from the valuable information the writers of this magazine uncover."-Mass Media Booknotes
"A gorgeous and wonderfully astute publication."-Christian Science Monitor
"It is the balance between the psychological and the political on the levels of both life and art that keeps Cineaste interviews on the cutting edge of film criticism."-Film Quarterly
"...covers ground usually ignored by other periodicals...[and] consistently avoids the convoluted jargon of academic film criticism."-Blimp Film Magazine (Austria)
"Cineaste is rich with information and probing judgment and is a must for any student of the cinema, matriculated or just armchair."-Small Magazine Review
"Cineaste has long been one of the most interesting film magazines in English. Too long it has been pigeonholed for its left-wing politics, when its real strength is the quality of its writers and their contributions…This issue is an absolute must…but then so is every issue of Cineaste."-Cinema Papers
"Cineaste ranks highly as a magazine with serious journalistic writing and true integrity. I am always intrigued by the in-depth interviews and fascinating topics. Cineaste makes an important contribution to our filmmaking culture as it stands up for important causes and special films that would otherwise be lost in our mass consumption pop culture."-Oliver Stone, Writer/Director
"I've been reading Cineaste for many years. I think it is a magazine of high quality with original, serious, informative articles."-Frederick Wiseman, Documentary Filmmaker
"Amidst the plethora of mediocre film publications, Cineaste stands out as an eminently serious, responsible and committed film magazine, noteworthy particularly for its insistence on the links between politics, national culture and film…We would al~be (much) poorer without Cineaste."-Amos Vogel, Author, Film Programmer, Professor Emeritus of Communications at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania
"Cineaste is one of the only serious film journals in the United States. For many years, I have recommended the magazine to my students, especially because its interviews and articles are so much more substantive than those found elsewhere. Cineaste has not sacrificed socio-political concerns to formalist ones, nor has it replaced serious journalism with puff pieces."-Annette Insdorf, Author, Chair, Film Division, Columbia University
"It is in Cineaste that I have found the most thorough and illuminating discourse on African American, Latino American, Asian American, gay and lesbian and other alternative cinemas often marginalized by the mainstream press…As a mainstream journal of cinema, it is highly accessible, entertaining and lively. As a journal of cinematic debate, it is scholarly, thorough and thoughtful."-Jesus Salvador Treviño, Chair, Latino Committee, Directors Guild of America
"So much of what is published in the U.S. about film and video is either superficial and glossy or pretentiously arcane and overly academic. Cineaste somehow seems to manage to strike a balance between these two extremes, presenting readable but insightful analysis of films and filmmakers from around the world."-Ross McElwee, Documentary Filmmaker
"Cineaste is essential reading for anyone concerned with the political and social implications of film and video. It has an amazing breadth of scope, spanning films from Hollywood to little-known independents. The contribution it makes to the film and video field is immeasurable."-William Sloan, Chief, Circulating Film & Video Library, The Museum of Modern Art
"Many film and video publications ignore independent work, especially work by women and people of color. Cineaste has a great record of writing about this work…Cineaste not only provides a forum wherein independent work, and work by women, may be discussed and analyzed, but does so in an in-depth and responsible way."-Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director, Women Make Movies
Cineaste Editors
Gary Crowdus: Editor, A Political Companion to American Film.Dan Georgakas: Coeditor, The Cineaste Interviews, Encyclopedia of the American Left, The Immigrant Left in the United States.
Roy Grundmann: Ph.D. student in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University.
Cynthia Lucia: Teacher of Film and English at Horace Greeley High School in New York.
Richard Porton: Film instructor at College of Staten Island/CUNY and author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination.
Leonard Quart: Professor of Cinema Studies at College of Staten Island/CUNY, coauthor of How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam and American Film and Society Since 1945.
Other Cineaste Editors
Paul Arthur: Professor of film and literature at Montclair State University.Tom Doherty: Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University and author of Teenagers and Teenpics, Projections of War, and Pre-Code Hollywood.
Pat Dowell: Film Critic, In These Times and National Public Radio.
Ed Guerrero: Associate Professor of Film and Literature at the University of Delaware and author of Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film.
Andrew Horton: Professor of Film and Literature at Loyola University and author of numerous books on film.
Mia Mask: Ph.D Candidate, Cinema Studies, New York University, and adjunct lecturer, Department of Performing and Creative Arts, College of Staten Island (CUNY).
Louis Menashe: Professor of Russian History and Film at Polytechnic University in New York City.
Brian Neve: Professor of Political Science at the University of Bath and author of Film and Politics in America.
Jonathan Rosenbaum: Author, Moving Places: A Life at the Movies; Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism, and Movies as Politics.
Robert Sklar: Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University and author of numerous books on film and television.
Dennis West: Professor of Hispanic Film and Literature at the University of Idaho.