MoMA’s screening series “Long Live the Underground!” is a celebration in honor of two esteemed New York institutions. The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, founded in 1961, was…
A young woman walks through a field of white flowers, suspended for a moment with neither origin nor destination, seemingly fallen to earth in Carlos…
Under the aegis of the recently formed specialty label Clockwork, Warner Bros. Pictures is finally releasing a full restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils in…
The thematic programs in MoMA’s retrospective commemorating the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop are generally grouped around certain political (“Make Love Not War”), poetic…
The United States of America is a drag queen. Drunk, dressed in her shiniest finery, and thickly rouged, the American empire according to Jack Smith…
My prewar apartment building in Queens has a mind of its own when it comes to temperature regulation. As another nor’easter batters the city, you…
A secret screening is always exciting. As part of Muscle Distribution’s recent Musclefest, a weekend of queer and transgressive film screenings at The Roxy Cinema…
All you need before attending Muscle Distribution’s Musclefest, a four-night screening series at the Roxy Cinema in mid-September, is a general belief that we don’t…
Before beginning production on Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock invited screenwriter Arthur Laurents to dinner with his wife Alma. The film’s star, Farley Granger, with whom…
It’s been 30 years since we lost Jon Jost. One shouldn’t worry: the American director is still alive and well, living, working, painting, traveling, and…
i. Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy It was Thymoetes, erstwhile soothsayer, who first took to that almighty horse. Hooves aloft, eyes heavenward,…
On August 11, 1994, major league baseball stopped. The scores on the big beaming boards standing above the outfield wall remained blank, robbed of their…
Back when labels were willing to spend on them, music videos served as a legitimate pipeline for visual artists, places for them to cut their…
A deadly heatwave stretches across Paris; on TV, civilians in the West Bank and Beirut speak out against fatal Israeli bombings; and an aging gay…
For Steven Spielberg, the cinema is a rebuilding, again and again, of the childhood bedroom. There is some portion of prelapsarian bliss involved: a desperate,…
Three years ago, I wrote an essay arguing Allen Fong’s Ah Ying (1983) paints a more realistic picture of 1980s Hong Kong than Wong Kar-wai’s…
The castles of Ludwig II seem to resound with that Wagnerian mystery: here time becomes space. They seem to distend from some turreted past; a…
Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual cinephile pilgrimage in Bologna, has reached its 40th edition. As ever, it brings an ample assortment of newly restored films…
If what Emmanuel Levinas said about the human face is true — that it “orders and ordains” us — then sudden, violent facial destruction signals…
The “YouTuber-to-filmmaker” pipeline is becoming a viable pathway to Hollywood success in 2026, particularly in the horror genre. In some notable cases, like with movie…
“They say that long ago, on hilly Crete, the Labyrinth contained a weaving course among blind walls and countless twisting paths, impossible to trace or…