Dear Roger
Ignatiy VishnevetskyA letter to a friend.
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Towards A Pure Fiction: Cecil B. DeMille
Luc MoulletCritic and filmmaker Luc Moullet on Cecil B. DeMille and The Road to Yesterday, one of the box office king’s most audacious undertakings.
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Deadpan in Nulltown
B. Kite and Bill KrohnRichard Fleischer’s Follow Me Quietly (1948) holds at its center an image so odd and resonant that its phantoms crowd the surface.
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Trojan Horses and Immaculate Math: An Interview with Steven Soderbergh
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe prolific filmmaker talks about money, intuition, digital style, and betraying the audience.
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Graf Attack!: or The Possibility Space (The Cinema of Dominik Graf)
Daniel KasmanAn overview of the revelations of Rotterdam’s retro on the German auteur.
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"Marfa Girl" or the Bailout of Capital R Realism
Uncas BlytheMoralizing and the erotic relations between porn, cinema & the state stripped bare.
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Controlled Chaos: An Interview with John Hyams
Sara FreemanThe action director of Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning talks violence, movies, methods and mayhem in contemporary digital cinema.
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LOL (Letting Out Less)
Celluloid Liberation FrontLOL by Joe Swanberg is a monumental work, the agonising howl of a generation with nothing left to say.
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Notebook's 5th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2012
Daniel KasmanIn our annual poll, we pair our favorite new films of 2012 with older films seen in the same year to create fantastic double features.
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The Delay of Death – Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life
Gabriel AbrantesOn the occasion of new DVDs by Criterion and a MoMA retrospective, a look at Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” and Salò.
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Expressing the Move
Hoi Lun LawFrancois Truffaut, Tsai Ming-liang, and the “reverberation, ambiguity and suggestiveness” of the cinephiliac writerly impulse of “the move.”
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Tony Scott: A Moving Target—Movement B
gina telaroliOne “movement” in our exquisite corpse-style critical project on Tony Scott. Each movement features ten critics and ten scene analyses.