A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO DAN GEORGAKAS (1938–2021)
Cineaste Editors Recall One of This Magazine’s Most
Important and Longest-Serving Editors and Contributors
Spring 2022
The Current Issue
Articles
Wilder the Humanist: New Perspectives on a Hollywood Legend (Preview)
by Kevin Lally
Paying Melvin Van Peebles His Due: Revisiting the Black Filmmaking Pioneer’s Bittersweet and Iconoclastic Career (Preview)
by Craigh Barboza
Cleopatra Reconsidered: A Revisionist Critique of Hollywood’s Most Notorious Epic
by Jean-Michel Ropars
From Rzeszów to Eternity: Notes on Some Recent Findings in the Biography of Fred Zinnemann
by Michał Oleszczyk
Film Reviews
The Power of the Dog
Reviewed by Graham Fuller
Passing
Reviewed by Mary F. Corey
A Cop Movie
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Reviewed by Page Laws
Drive My Car
Reviewed by Robert Koehler
Ahed’s Knee
Reviewed by Abe Silberstein
The Lost Daughter (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Alex Ramon
Spencer (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Megan Feeney
West Side Story (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Karen Backstein
No Time to Die (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Jonathan Murray
Blu-ray and DVD Reviews
La strada
Reviewed by David Sterritt
Ratcatcher
Reviewed by Jonathan Murray
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Reviewed by Robert Cashill
Tous les matins du monde
Reviewed by Adam Bingham
Lucky Luciano
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
High Sierra
Reviewed by J. E. Smyth
Staff Recommendations: Before Tonight is Over, Love Rites, Onibaba, The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs, and Sparrows
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by David Sterritt
Ken Jacobs Collection, Volume 1 (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Michael Sicinski
Interviews
Recreating a Transformative Childhood: An Interview with Kenneth Branagh
by Gary Crowdus
Exploring Alternative Realities on the Internet: An Interview with Jane Schoenbrun
by Steve Erickson
Nothing but Beauty in the Valley: An Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson
by Pierre Sauvage
You Want Me to Watch Listening to Kenny G!!!?: An Interview with Penny Lane (Web Exclusive)
by Scott MacDonald
Book Reviews
Totally Truffaut: 23 Films for Understanding the Man and the Filmmaker (Preview)
Reviewed by Adrian Martin
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life and Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Kevin Canfield
The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution
Reviewed by Dennis West
Sex, Politics and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch
Reviewed by Christoph Huber
Elio Petri: Investigation of a Filmmaker
Reviewed by Deborah Young
The Franco-Algerian War Through a Twenty-First Century Lens
Reviewed by Andrew Montiveo
The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema
Reviewed by Michael Sicinski
Tell It to the Stones: Encounters with the Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Christoph Huber
Departments
Editorial
Index to Cineaste, Vol. XLVI
Letters
Contributors
Short Takes
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
by Jonathan Murray