Columns
Futures and Pasts: Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel
On Kromanov’s rug-pulling amalgam of whodunnit and science fiction, an enduring cult item and one of Estonian cinema’s towering peaks.
Nick Pinkerton
Columns
Futures and Pasts: Pirosmani
On Giorgi Shengelaia’s tender and altogether sublime biopic of the Georgian painter.
Interview
Lucrecia Martel
Talking with the doyenne of Argentine cinema about her new documentary, historical responsibility, and the actual use of tear gas.
Columns
Futures and Pasts: We’ll Always Have Paris, aka Radley Metzger Goes Hardcore
On the sophisticatedly salacious pleasures of three newly restored, ’70s XXX classics-in-waiting.
Interview
Let the Dead Bury the Dead: A. S. Hamrah in Conversation
On the so-called “death” of theatrical moviegoing, Romero’s oft overlooked fourth Land of the Dead (2005), and a whole lot more.
Columns
Futures and Pasts: Running on Empty
On Sidney Lumet’s tale of morally compromised counterculture veterans trying to keep a family together.
From the Magazine
Limelight: Ann Hui
On the long, tenacious career and lyrical films of the cinematic poet laureate of Hong Kong.
Interview
Kleber Mendonça Filho
The director of The Secret Agent on his period thriller and Brazil’s problem with memory.
From the Magazine
The Metrograph Interview #1: Clint Eastwood
The first installment of our centerpiece interview series: a rare, career-spanning chat with the legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood.
Columns
Futures and Pasts: Perceval le Gallois
Considering the charming medieval anomaly that is Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978).
Interview
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Caleb Landry Jones, & Sean Price Williams
An interview with the holy trinity of director, star, and cinematographer of Harvest.
Columns
Futures and Pasts: Scattered Clouds
Considering Japanese master Mikio Naruse’s swan song.