Essay

Pauline at the Beach

by Nadja Spiegelman

On Éric Rohmer’s summertime parable of maturity and lust.

by Ryan Swen

On Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s international breakthrough film.

by Isabella Trimboli

On Jacques Rivette’s doubled women and the detective genre.

by Margaret Barton-Fumo

On Shinji Sômai’s’s youthful exuberance.

by Geoff Dyer

On a particularly artistic depiction of a historic year of Olympic games.

by Danielle Burgos

by Matt Turner

by Perwana Nazif

by Sasha Frere-Jones

On Chris Marker’s many visions of Japan, and his newly translated photoessay book Le Dépays.

by K. Austin Collins

by Keva York

by Nick Pinkerton

On Juraj Herz’s Czechoslovak New Wave landmark The Cremator (1969).