Winter 2021
The Current Issue
Articles
Warren Beatty, Reds, and I (Preview)
by Robert A. Rosenstone
A Cautionary Tale: The Roller Coaster Life of Mike Nichols (Preview)
by Robert Koehler
Those Who Made Me Laugh: Mae West and W. C. Fields
by Daniel Talbot
Playing Her Script Their Way: A Reconsideration of Mae West (Preview)
by J. E. Smyth
When Documentaries Collide: How Should Nonfiction Stories Be Told? (Web Exclusive)
by Matthew Hays
From Innocence Redeemed to Decadence Damned: Two Early Silent Films by Jean Renoir (Web Exclusive)
by Stuart Liebman
Film Reviews
Benedetta
Reviewed by J. E. Smyth
Exterminate All the Brutes
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Finding Kendrick Johnson
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin
Annette
Reviewed by Megan Feeney
The Card Counter
Reviewed by Robert Ribera
Undine
Reviewed by Adam Bingham
The Velvet Underground (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Thomas Doherty
Blu-ray and DVD Reviews
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Reviewed by Robert Cashill
The Clockmaker of St. Paul
Reviewed by Jonathan Kirshner
Bringing Up Baby
Reviewed by Mary F. Corey
The French Conspiracy
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue
Nightmare Alley
Reviewed by Rahul Hamid
The Damned
Reviewed by Christopher Sharrett
Ashes and Diamonds
Reviewed by David Sterritt
Staff Recommendations: After Life, Beauty and the Beast, The Fortune Cookie, Poison, and Streetwise/Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors
Thunderbolt (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Catherine Russell
Mirror (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by David Sterritt
Interviews
Romanticism, Realism, and the Blacklist: An Interview with Abraham Polonsky
by Brian Neve
Showing Violence Through Innocent Eyes: An Interview with Tatiana Huezo
by Shahnaz Mahmud
The Heresy of Truth: An Interview with Paul Verhoeven
by J. E. Smyth
Isn’t It Romantic: An Interview with Tadhg O’Sullivan
by Scott MacDonald
Acting Courageously: An Interview with Irène Jacob (Web Exclusive)
by Mark Lager
Book Reviews
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
Reviewed by Imogen Sara Smith
Scratches and Glitches: Observations on Preserving and Exhibiting Cinema in the Early 21st Century
Reviewed by Jared Rapfogel
Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker and Philosopher
Reviewed by Christopher Bray
African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness
Reviewed by Clifford Thompson
The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volumes 1 and 2
Reviewed by Jon Solomon
New York in Cinematic Imagination: The Agitated City
Reviewed by Sam B. Girgus
Departments
Editorial
Index to Cineaste, Vol. XLVI
Letters
Contributors
Short Takes