Film
RaMell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening
By Steve MacfarlaneThe nonstop interfacing of digital media with every expiring millisecond of day-to-day life pokes at some uncomfortable questions, especially when the philosophical dilemma of the personal device is turned away from our custom-curated social media timelines and back towards the outside world.
In Conversation
HANNAH GREENBERG with Gina Telaroli
Starting August 31, Anthology Film Archives will be taking on an uniquely specific slant on the recent push by many of New York’s repertory theaters to showcase more films by and about women.
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2018: The Timeliness of the Past
By Celluloid Liberation FrontNever intended to be a mere celebration of movies from the past, the 32nd edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna dispensed with any residual rhetoric about the supposed glory of what cinema used to be in favor of engaging with the present.
DVD Culture
The Neurotic Gothic Deviated Sex-Colored World: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood
By Leo GoldsmithCuriously, one of the most precise analyses of the films that Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich made together comes from a single page of an essay that reads more like a takedown.
