December 2009
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Behind the Music
Composer Carter Burwell on his creative process and his favorite scores
by David Schwartz posted December 28, 2009
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At the Circus
The big-top movies of Tod Browning
by David Cairns posted December 16, 2009
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Love for Sale
Sex workers on film, from fallen women to anti-bourgeois rebels
by Richard Porton posted December 10, 2009
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Kingdom of the Blind Pt 2
Revenge missions in the films of Clint Eastwood
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted December 3, 2009
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A Free Man
The tough questions of Clint Eastwood's White Hunter, Black Heart
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted December 1, 2009
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Double Feature
The fragility of innocence in Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Gran Torino
by Chris Fujiwara posted December 1, 2009
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Kingdom of the Blind Pt 1
Revenge missions in the films of Clint Eastwood
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted December 1, 2009
November 2009
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Feast
A Thanksgiving tribute to images of food on film
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted November 24, 2009
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Battle Lines
The epic intimacy of John Woo's Red Cliff
by R. Emmet Sweeney posted November 23, 2009
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Painting With Light
The Bauhaus influence on the cinematic avant-garde
by Gregory Zinman posted November 19, 2009
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The First Cordelia
Orson Welles's oldest daughter speaks
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted November 13, 2009
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The Substance of Style
A video series on Wes Anderson and his influences
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted November 9, 2009
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The Unknown Statue
A suppressed masterpiece by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted November 6, 2009
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Other Ways Around
Some sketches of the essay film
by Andrew Tracy posted November 5, 2009
October 2009
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Zombie 101
A guide to cinema’s most durable morality play
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 28, 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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The Nightwatchman
Peter Greenaway on Rembrandt, the art of VJing, and the death of cinema
by Leo Goldsmith posted October 15, 2009
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Perpetual Outsiders
The immigrant experience in the cinema of Elia Kazan
by Bilge Ebiri posted October 9, 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
September 2009
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A Revolution on Screen, Pt 2
Chinese cinema's "Seventeen Years": The flowering before the fall
by Kevin B. Lee posted September 28, 2009