April 2012
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The Art of Resistance
The brief, bright flowering of the Czech New Wave
by Steve Erickson posted April 24, 2012
January 2010
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Mission: Improbable
Hollywood's controversial contribution to the wartime effort
by Lou Lumenick posted January 6, 2010
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Shadows of Russia
A history of the Soviet Union, as Hollywood saw it
by Farran Smith Nehme posted January 6, 2010
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
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A Revolution on Screen, Pt 1
Movies for the masses—and the smuggling of art
by Kevin B. Lee posted September 24, 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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Pure Escapes
Jerzy Skolimowski and the placeless utopia of youth
by Chris Fujiwara posted July 10, 2009
May 2009
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Doctor's Orders
How a dead serious novel became the nightmare satire of Strangelove
by Bilge Ebiri posted May 26, 2009
March 2009
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A Tale of Two Careers
The theatrical realism of Jules Dassin
by Bruce Bennett posted March 26, 2009
January 2009
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Beyond Valkyrie
How the two postwar Germanys told the story of German resistance
by Anne Nelson posted January 8, 2009
December 2008
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Nervous About Nixon?
A new DVD offers the real Frost/Nixon Watergate interview from 1977
by David Schwartz posted December 19, 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
October 2008
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Empire of the Son
Oliver Stone Pt. 4: War and civilization in Alexander, and an epilogue on W.
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 17, 2008
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Fear and Self-Loathing
Oliver Stone Pt. 3: Nixon and the unmaking of a president
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 16, 2008
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Unreliable Narratives
Oliver Stone Pt. 2: JFK and the power of counter-myth
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 15, 2008
September 2008
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The Partisan
Czech director Vojtech Jasný's acts of resistance
by Nick Pinkerton posted September 18, 2008
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Morning in America
John Carpenter's genre readings of the Reagan years
by Benjamin Strong posted September 1, 2008
July 2008
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Image Is Everything
The double lives and branded selves of AMC's Mad Men
by Jessica Winter posted July 7, 2008
June 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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Vietnam in Fragments
William Klein in 1967-'68: A radical re-evaluation
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted June 4, 2008
