Spring 2016
The Current Issue
Articles
“I’ve Been Inspecting You, Mister Bond”: Crisis, Catharsis, and Calculation in Daniel Craig’s Twenty-First-Century 007 (Preview)
by Jonathan Murray
Trumbo (The Movie) versus Trumbo (The Life)
by Larry Ceplair
Shrunken Lives, Rich Imaginations:
A Journey through Arabian Nights and Other Films by Miguel Gomes
by Max Nelson
The Weeping Girl: Éric Rohmer’s Filming of Claire’s Knee
by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe
Film Reviews
Spotlight (Preview)
Reviewed by Thomas Doherty
The Witch
Reviewed by Adam Nayman
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine and Steve Jobs
Reviewed by Darragh O'Donoghue
Bridge of Spies
Reviewed by Geoffrey Jacques
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
Reviewed by Graham Fuller
No Home Movie
Reviewed by Jordan Cronk
Blu-ray and DVD Reviews
Far from Men
Reviewed by Darragh O'Donoghue
The Brood
Reviewed by Robert Cashill
Mister Johnson
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin
Ikiru
Reviewed by Charles Maland
Faust: A German Folktale
Reviewed by David Sterritt
In Cold Blood
Reviewed by Matthew Hays
The Apu Trilogy
Reviewed by Aaron Cutler
Staff Recommendations:
Agnès Varda in California,
All My Good Countrymen, Forty Guns, Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film, 1920–1970, and Tenderness of the Wolves
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors
I Want to Live! (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Leonard Quart
Twice Upon a Time (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Robert Cashill
What Every Woman Knows (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Jonathan Murray
Interviews
Twixt Hollywood and Art Cinema: An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola
by Rodney F. Hill
Rebel Citizens and Filmmakers:
An Interview with Haskell Wexler and Pamela Yates
by Maria Garcia
Painting Darkness with Light:
An Interview with Darius Khondji
by Declan McGrath
Embrace of the Serpent:
An Interview with Ciro Guerra (Web Exclusive)
by Michael Guillén
To Be Aesthetic and Not Boring:
An Interview with Jerzy Skolimowski (Web Exclusive)
by Paul Risker
Book Reviews
The New Cinephilia and The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism (Preview)
Reviewed by A. S. Hamrah
The Many Lives of Cy Endfield:
Film Noir, the Blacklist, and Zulu
Reviewed by Imogen Sara Smith
The New Scottish Cinema
Reviewed by John Hill
Gay Directors, Gay Films?:
Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies,
Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters
Reviewed by Steve Erickson
Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen:
A Life in Film
Reviewed by David Greven
Cinematic Quests for Identity:
The Hero’s Encounter with the Beast
Reviewed by Jessica Y Lee
Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
Reviewed by Barton Byg
Film Programming: Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Troy Bordun
Departments
Editorial
Hollywood Stars on Broadway: A Critical Symposium (Web Exclusive)
by Gary Bettinson
Contributors
Short Takes