Summer 2016
The Current Issue
Articles
Like Clockwork: Heartbreak and Economic Collapse in Johnnie To’s
Post-Handover Cinema (Preview)
by Glenn Heath Jr.
A Woman at the Center of Hollywood’s Wars: Screenwriter Mary C. McCall Jr.
by J. E. Smyth
Jean Epstein: The Revenant
by Stuart Liebman
Back to the Underground:
A Year of Chinese Film Festival Shutdowns
by Alex Suber
The Perfect Dictatorship: Political Satire in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
by Carmen Irabien Chedraui
Film Reviews
45 Years
Reviewed by J. E. Smyth
Marguerite
Reviewed by Graham Fuller
A Bigger Splash (Preview)
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Born to Be Blue
Reviewed by Krin Gabbard
Francofonia
Reviewed by Louis Menashe
Notfilm
Reviewed by Aaron Cutler
Blu-ray and DVD Reviews
Room
Reviewed by Michał Oleszczyk
Death by Hanging
Reviewed by Jordan Cronk
Bound for Glory
Reviewed by Marc Eliot
The Emigrants and The New Land
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Bitter Rice
Reviewed by David Sterritt
Gilda
Reviewed by Christopher Sharrett
The Big Short
Reviewed by Gary Crowdus
Staff Recommendations: Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street, The Kindergarten Teacher, The Last Detail, The Pearl Button, and Xenia
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors
The Man and the Moment (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Interviews
It Has to Be Felt: An Interview with Terence Davies
by Jonathan Murray
The View from Backstage: An Interview with D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
by Richard Porton
Book Reviews
Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment (Preview)
Reviewed by Thomas Doherty
Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
Reviewed by David Sterritt
Woody: The Biography
Reviewed by Jonathan Kirshner
Cinematic Terror: A Global History of Terrorism on Film
Reviewed by Susan Ryan
Film Rhythm After Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance
Reviewed by Tony Pipolo
Flickers of Film: Nostalgia in the Time of Digital Cinema
Reviewed by Justin Wyatt
Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics
Reviewed by Gina Marchetti
Departments
Editorial
The Guadalajara International Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
by Dennis West
Contributors
Short Takes