A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO RAHUL HAMID (1970–2022)

Cineaste Editors and NYU Colleagues Recall One of This
Magazine’s Most Beloved Staff Members and Good Friends



Spring 2023
The Current Issue

RRR

Articles

The Tiger’s Roar: The Crossover Success of S. S. Rajamouli’s RRR (Preview)
by Darragh O’Donoghue

A Filmmaker Who Never Was: The Redemption of Paul Williams
by Paul Cronin

Behind the Green Door: The Tale of the Peculiar, Pioneering, and Politically Provocative Porn Film
by Jared Stearns

Inside Stephen Dwoskin
by Henry K. Miller

Decision to Leave

Film Reviews

Tár
Reviewed by Megan Feeney

Aftersun
Reviewed by Graham Fuller

All Quiet on the Western Front
Reviewed by J. E. Smyth

Till
Reviewed by Mary F. Corey

Pacifiction
Reviewed by Robert Koehler

Decision to Leave
Reviewed by Jonathan Murray

Cure

Blu-ray and DVD Reviews

Arsenic and Old Lace (Preview)
Reviewed by J. E. Smyth

In Bruges
Reviewed by Ciara Moloney

Cure
Reviewed by Adam Bingham

The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Reviewed by Samm Deighan

La Llorona
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue

Staff Recommendations: The Counterfeit Traitor, Detective Story, Knife in the Head, Monsieur Hire, and El Vampiro Negro
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors

Malcolm X (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by David Sterritt

The Good Boss (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by David Sterritt






Elegance Bratton

Interviews

Tár Is a Film Built for Interpretation: An Interview with Todd Field
by Megan Feeney

Far from the Noisy Crowd: An Interview with Jerzy Skolimowski
by Sean Nam

Art Imitating Life as a Force for Change: An Interview with Elegance Bratton
by Shahnaz Mahmud

The Shaping of Israeli Political Memory: An Interview with Alon Schwarz
by Mitchell Abidor

Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture

Book Reviews

Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation (Preview)
Reviewed by Thomas Doherty

Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin

Some Versions of Cary Grant
Reviewed by David Sterritt

The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of
Animation’s Golden Age

Reviewed by Larry Ceplair

Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied France
Reviewed by Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

Italian Political Cinema: Figures of the Long ’68
Reviewed by Andrew Montiveo

Let’s Go Stag!: A History of Pornographic Film from the Invention of Cinema to 1970
Reviewed by Whitney Strub

The Cinematographer’s Voice (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Declan McGrath

The Afterimage Reader (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Jonathan Rosenbaum

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Steve Erickson

How Is Katia?

Departments

Editorial

Letters

Contributors

Errata for Cineaste, Winter 2022

Short Takes

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