June 2012
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The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends
by J. Hoberman posted June 28, 2012
February 2012
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Migrating Forms
David Cronenberg and the challenge of the impossible adaptation
by Joshua Land posted February 3, 2012
January 2012
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Laws of Desire
What did David Cronenberg's Videodrome get right about us?
by Tom McCormack posted January 26, 2012
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They Came From Within
Yonic symbolism in the films of David Cronenberg
by Miriam Bale posted January 20, 2012
November 2011
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The Limits of Tolerance
Desire and commerce in the cinema of Bertrand Bonello
by Michael Sicinski posted November 30, 2011
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All the Way to the FBI
Tracing the Hollywood career of J. Edgar Hoover
by Thomas Doherty posted November 16, 2011
April 2011
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Fine Vintage
Fashion, thrift shops, and the space of pleasure in queer underground film
by Ronald Gregg posted April 15, 2011
December 2010
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Milking It
The pleasures and potential dangers of the It Gets Better videos
by Tom McCormack posted December 6, 2010
June 2010
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Wood's Dilemma
A look back at the landmark essay "Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic"
by Tom McCormack posted June 17, 2010
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Reinterpreting the Gods
Remembering Robin Wood, film critic and classical auteurist
by Tom McCormack posted June 16, 2010
March 2010
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The Exploding Boy
The chameleonic career—and the sad, stormy life—of Montgomery Clift
by Brynn White posted March 12, 2010
October 2009
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Love Letter
A centenary valentine to Japanese screen legend Kinuyo Tanaka
by Chris Fujiwara posted October 23, 2009
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Falling From Grace
The female Christ figures of Lars von Trier's films
by Joshua Land posted October 2, 2009
August 2009
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Television That Tastes Good
The generous pedagogy of Julia Child and The French Chef
by Dana Polan posted August 6, 2009
July 2009
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Zen Pulp, Pt 3
I’m looking at you, Miss: The women of Mann
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted July 9, 2009
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Zen Pulp, Pt 1
Vice precedent: Michael Mann's existential TV drama
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted July 1, 2009
June 2009
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Out of the Vast Wasteland
The early years of public access cable television in New York City
by Leah Churner posted June 18, 2009
December 2008
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The People's Director
The old new China of Xie Jin (1923-2008)
by Leo Goldsmith posted December 11, 2008
November 2008
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Virgin Territory
Looking behind the stereotypes of the Doris Day-Rock Hudson pairing
by Saul Austerlitz posted November 10, 2008
October 2008
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Design for Living
The campy realism of Mitchell Leisen, a forgotten master of disguise
by David Cairns posted October 23, 2008
September 2008
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Be My Knife
Sex as transgression and transaction in Oshima's political erotica
by Michael Atkinson posted September 29, 2008
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Bringing Up Hawks
Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell on the discovery of an auteur
by David Schwartz posted September 25, 2008
August 2008
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Anarchy in the U.K.
The growing pains of Lindsay Anderson, Free Cinema's angry young man
by Steve Erickson posted August 14, 2008
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Jobless Number
Economics and sex in a Depression-era Busby Berkeley musical
by Martin Rubin posted August 4, 2008
June 2008
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Look Back in Anger
Considering the legacy of poet-provocateur Derek Jarman
by Sam Adams posted June 26, 2008
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The Actor's Director as Actor
Sydney Pollack's key role in a Stanley Kubrick masterpiece
by David Schwartz posted June 12, 2008
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His Little Loves
The life and films of Jean Eustache
by Nick Pinkerton posted June 12, 2008
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Korea at the Crossroads
The anti-imperialist melodrama of Shin Sang-ok's A Flower in Hell
by Michael Sicinski posted June 12, 2008
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The Persistence of Memory
The introverted cinema of Terence Davies
by Michael Koresky posted June 4, 2008