The Amplified Silence in Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
There are taboo subjects in the context of Indigenous Americans in Killers of the Flower Moon. Scorsese’s film only amplifies the silence surrounding them.
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BFI London Film Festival 2023: Critics’ Chat
BFI London Film Festival’s most impressionable films of the year, industry strikes, awards season, and the shoe-leather journalism of a film festival critic.
Maggie Cheung’s Role in ‘Irma Vep’ Indulges French Film Cinepheliacs
In Irma Vep, Maggie Cheung becomes a representation of a now globalized cinema industry.
The Imagination of Disaster 2.0: Revisiting Susan Sontag in the Age of the Pandemic Horror Narrative
Considering Susan Sontag’s “The Imagination of Disaster” and modern apocalyptic narratives, are sci-fi and horror still “inadequate responses” to our world?
A Fresh Look at Free Will and Determinism in Terry Gilliam’s ’12 Monkeys’
Susanne Kord gets to the heart of the philosophical issues in Terry Gilliam's 1995 time-travel dystopia, 12 Monkeys.
Culture Is Not Innocent: An Interview with Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto discusses her new book on pop culture from the Global South, which goes above and beyond, among other things, the "sluggish, bloated, less urgent" films dominating Hollywood.
In ‘Afterimages’ Laura Mulvey Returns to Feminist Film Criticism with Fresh Insights
Mulvey's Afterimages draws together her recent writing on women and film to create an engaging collection that is both timely and time-centred.
In Defense of Errol Morris’s ‘Standard Operating Procedure’
Morris knows how our own projections have been weaponized against both those in the Abu Ghraib photos and ourselves as the public consuming the photos, obfuscating the standard operating procedure of the title.
What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘The Graduate’
The persuasive power of Seduced by Mrs. Robinson lies not in proffering a singular interpretation of its meaning but rather in the open-ended way it encourages readers to give in to the scope of the film's meaningfulness.
‘Ebert on Herzog’: A Love Story
Nowhere else in the merging of modern cinema and film criticism can you find such a strangely symbiotic relationship.
‘Movies That Mattered’ Captures Dave Kehr’s Astute Film Criticism
Dave Kehr is one of the best long-form essay writers people read for clear and sometimes brutally honest indictments of film.