Summer 2020
The Current Issue
Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai
Articles
Jean-Pierre Melville: The Filmmaker as Undercover Dandy
by Jean-Michel Frodon
Danger! Exploding Scripts: Screenwriter Charles Wood and the British New Wave Cinema of the Sixties
by David Cairns
Cine Hidalgo: Rural Mexico’s Moving Images
by Olivia Heffernan
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles's Bacurau
Film Reviews
Journeys Through French Cinema (Preview)
Reviewed by David Sterritt
The Whistlers
Reviewed by Monica Filimon
Sorry We Missed You
Reviewed by Graham Fuller
Corpus Christi
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Bacurau
Reviewed by Karen Backstein
I Was at Home, But...
Reviewed by Lawrence Garcia
Beanpole
Reviewed by Fedor Karmanov
A "Sneak Preview" for American Viewers of Roman Polanski's J'Accuse (aka An Officer and a Spy) (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Robert Koehler
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema
Blu-ray and DVD Reviews
Tex Avery: Screwball Classics, Volume 1 (Preview)
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Knives Out
Reviewed by Megan Feeney
Fail Safe
Reviewed by Thomas Doherty
Holiday (1938) and Holiday (1930)
Reviewed by J. E. Smyth
Quai des Orfèvres
Reviewed by Adam Bingham
Room at the Top
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin
Staff Recommendations: Accident, Birdy, A German Youth, Münchhausen, and Teorema
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors
Lav Diaz
Interviews
She’s Got the Power: An Interview with Eliza Hittman
by Richard Porton
Speaking a Different Tongue: An Interview with Corneliu Porumboiu
by Robert Koehler
A Forest of National Histories: An Interview with Lav Diaz
by Pujita Guha
Personal Journeys Through French Cinema: An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier
by Patrick McGilligan
They Won’t Grow Old Together: An Interview with Dan Sallitt about Fourteen and His Earlier Films (Web Exclusive)
by Michał Oleszczyk
The Important Thing Is It Should Not Be Very Much: An Interview with Boris Frumin About His Work with Soviet Director Grigori Kozintsev on His 1970 Adaptation of King Lear (Web Exclusive)
by Sue-Lynn Zan
Raphael Millet’s Cinema in Lebanon
Book Reviews
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (Preview)
Reviewed by Kevin Canfield
Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters
Reviewed by Julie Jones
Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics
Reviewed by Nafis Shafizadeh
Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
Reviewed by Christopher Small
Cinema in Lebanon
Reviewed by Giovanni Vimercati
Preston Sturges: The Last Years of Hollywood’s First Writer-Director
Reviewed by Michael Gibson
Hannah Frank’s Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
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