Captain Phillips: Colliding with the Real
“One of the most remarkable things about us is also one of the easiest to overlook: each time we collide with the real, we deepen
When Korine Filmed Culkin:(Dis)placing the Child Star in Sunday
In a style that suits the brashness of its auteur subject, I would like to get straight to the point: Harmony Korine is a filmmaker
“Everything is dead but the motor still turns”: An Interview with Albert Serra
It was with some trepidation that I watched Catalonian director Albert Serra’s Historia de la meva mort (The Story of My Death) at this year’s
Three Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman: The Criterion Edition of Stromboli, Europe ’51 and Journey to Italy
How did Italian cinema manage to become so big when from Rossellini to Visconti and from Antonioni to Fellini, no one recorded sound with images?
Memory’s Chorus: Stories We Tell and Sarah Polley’s Theory of Autobiography
Near the beginning of Sarah Polley’s newest film, Stories We Tell (2012), an autobiographical documentary about her family and her life history, Polley asks one
Animation Diagnostics: Power and the Loop
The structural filmmakers—such as Peter Kubelka, Kurt Kren, Tony Conrad, Bruce Conner, George Landow, Paul Sharits, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Ken Jacobs, Hollis Frampton, Michael
Reasoned Arguments: A Conversation with Frederick Wiseman about At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman’s second documentary, High School (1968), was at the time of its release an unprecedented glimpse into America’s public education system. Throughout his career,
Ethics in the Immersive Documentary
An elderly Cajun recalls his life spent in the Louisiana bayous for decades as he has struggled to survive on the meager income of a
Tokyo 1969: Revolutionary Image Thieves in a Disintegrating City
Tokyo’s period of acute urban unrest extended across the 1960s, beginning with widespread rioting, and demonstrations around the parliament building, in 1960, and culminating in
The Complete Rohmer
Potemkine films have rendered all Eric Rohmer admirers a great service. Their “Eric Rohmer, L’intégrale” is a remarkable attempt to assemble as complete a review