The Ephemeral Real, Part IV
Sometimes a fragment of the real lasts long enough to make it into more than one film.
Sometimes a fragment of the real lasts long enough to make it into more than one film.
Drew JohnsonSep 23, 2014
The ultimate joy of The Desolation of Smaug is in watching its many moving parts.
Michael NordineDec 23, 2013
The bounty of responses to Paul Thomas Anderson and his films speak to his artistry.
Greg GerkeDec 19, 2013
'The Wes Anderson Collection' is impressive — until you get around to actually reading it
Calum MarshDec 10, 2013
Writing My Life With Cleopatra was William Wanger reaching for that .38, hoping the pen would be mightier than the gun.
Kim MorganDec 6, 2013
On November 1, 2013, the Toronto International Film Festival opened its first original traveling exhibition entitled Cronenberg: Evolution.
Haley MlotekDec 4, 2013
In The Sacrament, the conflation of media publicity and private lives, which was always present in the Jonestown massacre, now becomes the main...
Donal HarrisDec 3, 2013
One of the great strengths of Badiou’s philosophy is his complete lack of cynicism and willingness to risk folly in the pursuit of truth. It means...
Nico BaumbachSep 22, 2013
"The thrust of the film,"Harrington says, "is to present the artist as an alchemist who, through her creative work, becomes herself transmuted into...
Nathaniel BellAug 13, 2013
The art house theaters of Los Angeles
Nafis ShafizadehJul 29, 2013
Guillermo del Toro’s foot fetish
Wai Chee DimockJul 27, 2013
The mess that Hollywood is in, and how we got there.
Andrew GumbelJul 26, 2013
Can the adaptation of “Tiger Eyes” hold up to Blume’s legacy?
Alizah SalarioJul 20, 2013
On Travis Mathew's re-imagining of William Friedkin's 'Cruising'
Morgan WoolseyJul 19, 2013
Margarethe von Trotta's film 'Hannah Arendt'
Moira WeigelJul 16, 2013
The education of a screenwriter
Jonathan ZimmermanNov 21, 2012
FOR THE SEASONED LARB READER — or indeed, for almost any contemporary reader — neither Greil Marcus nor David Thomson should need an introduction...
Greil MarcusNov 14, 2012
On the film adaptation of James Welch's 'Winter in the Blood'
Michael PeckOct 27, 2012
On recent translations of the Russian formalist's 'Bowstring' and 'Energy of Delusion'
Jonathan FoltzOct 24, 2012
Of Master and disciple, an 'unresolved love story'
Jacob MikanowskiOct 20, 2012
since it’s Wilder we’re talking about, there’s an anecdotal surplus unmatched in any history of the motion pictures.
Noah IsenbergMar 27, 2012
Since Ebert’s prime, everything has changed.
Swati PandeyMar 14, 2012
I’d found my thing. I embraced the scary. I befriended it. The monsters and I fell in love, and I didn’t question why. I was home.
Jonathan PennerOct 30, 2011
By 1927 Rinty was designated “the most popular performer in the U.S.” but was also named as the correspondent in a divorce.
Merrill MarkoeOct 10, 2011