The Front Lines The Front Lines
On Atlantis, Dear Comrades!, and A Glitch in the Matrix.
Feb 24, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Out of the Ether Out of the Ether
On Mank, Let Them All Talk, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Minari, and more films from the end of 2020.
Dec 30, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Living in Borat’s America Living in Borat’s America
The sequel to Sascha Baron Cohen’s mockumentary attempts to again hold a mirror to the crudeness of American life. Does the stunt work a second time?
Nov 13, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Making Room for the Real Making Room for the Real
A dispatch from this year’s mostly virtual New York Film Festival.
Oct 30, 2020 / Stuart Klawans
Freakish, Horrifying, and Sometimes Wondrous Alternative Histories Freakish, Horrifying, and Sometimes Wondrous Alternative Histories
On Lovecraft Country and Tesla.
Sep 11, 2020 / Stuart Klawans
Shaking Up Your Perceptions Shaking Up Your Perceptions
How films chosen for the Human Rights Watch Film Festival test the limits of both authority and documentary filmmaking.
Jul 16, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In the Time of Virtual Cinema In the Time of Virtual Cinema
Theaters big and small have moved to streaming models as their physical locations have temporarily shuttered. Will moviegoing fundamentally change as a result?
May 22, 2020 / Stuart Klawans
Stuart Gordon’s Alternative Avant-Garde Stuart Gordon’s Alternative Avant-Garde
On the legacy of the horror movie auteur.
Apr 17, 2020 / Stuart Klawans
Between Yourself and This Bygone Place Between Yourself and This Bygone Place
On Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake, Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, and other recent films.
Mar 13, 2020 / Stuart Klawans
Between the Old World and the New Between the Old World and the New
On Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole and Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams.
Feb 7, 2020 / Stuart Klawans