Articles

Dolemite Was His Name: The Story of Self-Made Cult Film Icon Rudy Ray Moore (Preview)
by Steve Ryfle

Ida Lupino’s America: “Just a Big Family of Little Failures”
by J. E. Smyth

With “Gay Abandon”: The Auteur as Homosexual Writer in the Twenty-First Century
by David A. Gerstner

Confronting the Strongman: Social Commentary in Contemporary Philippine Cinema
by Luigi Leonardo

Film Reviews

The Traitor
Reviewed by Chris Shields

Pain and Glory
Reviewed by Odie Henderson

The Lighthouse
Reviewed by Katherine Connell

Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood
Reviewed by Jonathan Kirshner

Loro
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue

American Factory
Reviewed by Bao Feng and Charles Musser

Blu-ray and DVD Reviews

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Preview)
Reviewed by Mary F. Corey

1984
Reviewed by David Sterritt

My Brilliant Career
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue

The Border
Reviewed by Thomas Delapa

An Angel at My Table
Reviewed by Graham Fuller

Between the Lines
Reviewed by Gary M. Kramer

Staff Recommendations: Babylon, Blackmail, Blue Velvet, Dead of Night, and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade: The Complete Films
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors

Hustlers (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Megan Feeney

The Bostonians (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by David Sterritt

Merrill’s Marauders (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue

Interviews

Deconstructing the Filmmaker’s Gaze: An Interview with Céline Sciamma
by Maria Garcia

Citizens with Cameras: An Interview with Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar
by Gary Crowdus

Exploring America’s Alternate Queer History: An Interview with Matt Tyrnauer
by Matthew Hays

Is It Okay to Laugh?: An Interview with Takashi Miike
by David Neary

Cosa Nostra Crimes and Political Affairs: An Interview with Marco Bellocchio
by Gary Crowdus

Book Reviews

Funny Man: Mel Brooks
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick (Preview)
Reviewed by Kevin Canfield

Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Reviewed by Christopher Small

The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film
Reviewed by Nafis Shafizadeh

Dziga Vertov: Life and Work, Volume 1, 1896–1921
Reviewed by Stuart Liebman

Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s “Nightmare Comedy”
Reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers

The Conscience of Cinema: The Works of Joris Ivens 1912–1989
Reviewed by Peter Hourigan

Frankly: The Unmasking of Frank Capra (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Ian Scott

Departments

Editorial

Letters

The Gdynia Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
by Darragh O’Donoghue

The Heartland International Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
by Dennis West

The Locarno Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
by Richard Porton

The Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
by Jared Rapfogel

Index to Cineaste, Vol. XLIV

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