Journal
Essays
Essay
Another Round with Vinterberg & Mikkelsen
BY Laura Kern
In a pair of films, the acclaimed Danish duo lay the foundation for a lasting cinematic partnership.
Essay
Uncharted Territory
BY José Teodoro
Emotional logic prevails in Claire Denis’s L’Intrus, inviting us to share its itinerant protagonist’s unmoored state.
Essay
Split Image
BY Aliza Ma
With Center Stage, Stanley Kwan blends formal styles to tell the story of the tragic silent Shanghainese starlet Ruan Lingyu and redefines the biopic.
Conversations
Q&A
Nan Goldin in Conversation with Agustina Comedi
BY Metrograph
The two artists discuss Comedi‘s Silence is a Falling Body and Playback, as well as her journey into filmmaking, LGBT culture in Argentina and the U.S., and cultural movements in each nation.
Q&A
Aaron Sorkin in Conversation with Kenneth Lonergan
BY Metrograph
The two writer/directors discuss Sorkin‘s latest film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, tracing its origins involving conversations with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hayden, and detailing a production that only became more relevant as the years progressed.
Q&A
On Chulas Fronteras & Del Mero Corazón
BY Metrograph
Editor Maureen Gosling, a co-director of Del Mero Corazón and a longtime collaborator of Les Blank, and Harrod Blank, who oversaw the restoration of the films, joined Argot Pictures’s Jim Browne for an in-theater chat in June 2019.
Videos
Q&A
Nan Goldin in Conversation with Agustina Comedi
BY Metrograph
The two artists discuss Comedi‘s Silence is a Falling Body and Playback, as well as her journey into filmmaking, LGBT culture in Argentina and the U.S., and cultural movements in each nation.
Q&A
Aaron Sorkin in Conversation with Kenneth Lonergan
BY Metrograph
The two writer/directors discuss Sorkin‘s latest film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, tracing its origins involving conversations with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hayden, and detailing a production that only became more relevant as the years progressed.
Q&A
Gianfranco Rosi in Conversation with Ross McElwee
BY Metrograph
The kindred-spirit documentarians take us through Rosi’s career and their shared immersive, one-man approach to filmmaking.
Excerpts
Excerpt
An Excerpt from
Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks
BY Adam Nayman
In his new book, the critic examines Phantom Thread ’s luxurious, intricate weave of contradictions as part of a critical study of its subject’s overall body of work.
Excerpt
Up and Down the Ladder: Excerpt from an Unpublished Manuscript c. 1933
BY Francis Ford
In an excerpt from his unpublished memoir about his time in Hollywood, actor Francis Ford describes working in early cinema, a period when audiences hadn’t fully grasped the differences between screen and reality.