La Petite Mort
Harry Lighton’s film ‘Pillion’ offers a discreetly sanitized version of gay BDSM.
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers
The Filmography That Launched a Thousand Ships
Decentering Homer and reflecting on the self-referential nature of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’
The Animator’s New Groove
A personal history of animation’s reconquest of Hollywood.
Know Your Own Men
Some say that Christopher Nolan has finally transformed into a women’s director, but the gender dynamics in his new mythology epic are actually much more complicated.
Lights in the Sky
Considering Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ and his magic-of-movies persona.
A Femicide in Saudi Arabia
Haifaa Al-Mansour’s recent film explores the new liberties available to women in her home country.
John Waters Is ‘Officially Good’
The legendary director talks about his films’ induction into the Criterion Collection, comedy as our best weapon against fascism, and ‘going on 81.’
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
A new movie about AI judges serves to expose how film noir was always about a world of artificial intelligence.
Everybody Wants This
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ wants to rehabilitate the fashion industry’s brutal early 2000s workplace culture, but it can’t quite hide how much it misses it.
Plants in Focus
Ildikó Enyedi’s film ‘Silent Friend’ daringly manipulates slow time to center a gingko tree protagonist among several generations of human companions.
Let the Ghosts Speak
Saleem Haddad’s new novel and Fil Ieropoulos’s recent experimental film wrestle with the ghosts of the Ottoman past.
Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist
Perfecting the art of the blacklist.
