The Current Issue
Fall 2026
Articles
A “Mean Quarter” of New York: King Vidor’s Street Scene (Preview)
by Art Simon
Fact or Fiction?: The Hybrid Documentaries of Sergei Loznitsa
by Bogdan Cuza
A Cinema of Social Change: Early Works of Nagisa Oshima
by Adam Bingham
Beyond Propaganda: East German Film and Holocaust Memory
by Abe Silberstein
Censored Realities: Social and Political Tensions in Iranian Cinema (Web Exclusive)
by Ehsan Zamani
Film Reviews
The Christophers (Preview)
Reviewed by Mary F. Corey
The Stranger
Reviewed by Jean-Michel Frodon
Manas
Reviewed by Mitchell Abidor
Orwell: 2+2=5
Reviewed by Matthew Hays
Unidentified
Reviewed by Maria Garcia
Blu-ray and DVD Reviews
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Reviewed by David Sterritt
Lenny
Reviewed by Thomas Doherty
Point Blank
Reviewed by Jonathan Kirshner
Blue Moon
Reviewed by Phillip Lopate
Confessions of a Police Captain
Reviewed by Deborah Young
The Stunt Man
Reviewed by James B. Evans
Staff Recommendations
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors
Deep Crimson (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by David Sterritt
The Dancing Hawk (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Exorcismo: Defying a Dictator & Raising Hell in Post-Franco Spain (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Philippe Garnier
Interviews
A Journey into Darkness and Light with Spielberg: An Interview with Janusz Kamiński
by Craigh Barboza
Following the Angels of Happenstance: An Interview with Mark Jenkin
by Jonathan Murray
On Videographic Scholarship: An Interview with Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell
by Scott MacDonald
Why Should Cinema Have a Narrative?: An Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn
by Tatiana Rosenstein
Book Reviews
The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema (Preview)
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin
Writings and Relics, 1990–1995
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Jane Fonda: There’s a Great Deal to Say
Reviewed by Megan Feeney
Loach on Film
Reviewed by David Sterritt
Melodrama as Provocateur: Linda Williams
Reviewed by Catherine Russell
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America
Reviewed by Charles Musser
Book Brief Reviews
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Cineaste 60th Anniversary Appeal
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