Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire" and the Virtues of Getting Physical with Gina Carano
Joe McCullochA few thoughts on beatings, Bazin, gender, genre, and how montage can turn a man into a duck.
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The Lost Pasolini Interview
Celluloid Liberation FrontPasolini’s second-to-last interview, long believed to have been lost, now appears here in English for first time.
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In Defense of Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty"
Dan SallittAn appreciative stylistic analysis of director-writer Julia Leigh’s controversial debut feature.
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The Comedy Stylings of Robert Bresson
Ignatiy VishnevetskyTracing Bresson’s audio-visual sensibility back to the formally-ambitious film comedies of the early 1930s.
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Pina's Eyes: A Conversation With Wim Wenders
Michael GuillenAn interview with director Wim Wenders on his new 3D documentary Pina.
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Robert Bresson: The Over-Plenty of Life
Ignatiy VishnevetskyIntroducing a new series of essays on the “tightly-packed excess” of Robert Bresson.
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Notebook 4th Writers Poll: The Ferroni Brigade's Double Trouble Madness '11
The Ferroni BrigadeThe Ferronis take our end of the year double feature extravaganza to delirious heights.
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Notebook's 4th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2011
NotebookIn our annual poll, we pair our favorite new films of 2011 with older films seen in the same year to create fantastic double features.
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The Mask and the Role of God
Luc MoulletA previously unpublished article by French New Wave critic and filmmaker Luc Moullet on the cinema of Eric Rohmer.
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In the Process of the Investigation: David Fincher and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyStieg Larsson’s wish-fulfillment-fantasy-disguised-as-a-thriller as process and data.
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The Bravura Sequence
Luc MoulletCritic and filmmaker Luc Moullet looks at the tremendous final sequences of two King Vidor films.
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Edward Yang: Change and Confusion
Jesse CataldoYang’s creative ethos is summed up by two of his lesser known films: A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong .