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

Melvin Van Peebles

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

Drive My Car

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

Ken Jacobs

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




Jane Schoenbrun

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

The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution

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

Softie

Departments

Editorial

Index to Cineaste, Vol. XLVI

Letters

Contributors

Short Takes

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
by Jonathan Murray