The Current Issue
Spring 2025

Masahiro Shinoda

Articles

Sins of the Father: Politics and Patriarchs in the Cinema of Leos Carax (Preview)
by Darragh O’Donoghue

Everything or Nothing: The Cuban Revolution’s Censorship of Cinema
by Matthew David Roe

Masahiro Shinoda: At the Vanguard of the New and the Old
by Adam Bingham

The Great Might-Have-Been of the French New Wave
by Mitchell Abidor

Around The Clock: On an Overnight at MoMA (Web Exclusive)
by Will DiGravio

Separated

Film Reviews

Emilia Pérez (Preview)
Reviewed by Karen Backstein

Vermiglio
Reviewed by Matthew Evangelista

Witches
Reviewed by Megan Feeney

Eureka
Reviewed by Robert Koehler

Babygirl
Reviewed by Mary F. Corey

Separated
Reviewed by Charles Musser

A Real Pain (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Graham Fuller

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Blu-ray and DVD Reviews

Pandora’s Box (Preview)
Reviewed by Thomas Doherty

Scarface
Reviewed by David Sterritt

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Reviewed by Jonathan Murray

The Long Good Friday
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin

Enough Rope
Reviewed by Matthew Hays

Paper Moon
Reviewed by Christopher Bray

Staff Recommendations: Burn, Witch, Burn, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Eichmann Trial, The Hop-Pickers, and The Valley of the Bees
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors

Payal Kapadia

Interviews

All We Imagine as Light: An Interview with Payal Kapadia
by Graham Fuller

Histories of French Cinema’s Moving Body: An Interview with Denis Lavant
by Arta Barzanji

Meeting with Pol Pot: An Interview with Rithy Panh
by Clarence Tsui

La Cocina and the American Dream: An Interview with Alonso Ruizpalacios
by Paul Risker

Mapping a Cinematic Grand Tour through Asia: An Interview with Miguel Gomes
by Shahnaz Mahmud

Chris Marker

Book Reviews

Hard to Watch: How to Fall in Love with Difficult Movies
Reviewed by Catherine Russell

Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer: An Authorized Biography
Reviewed by Robert Cashill

Still Film Crazy (After All These Years): Collected Interviews
Reviewed by Phillip Lopate

George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director
Reviewed by David Sterritt

From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary
Reviewed by Karen Backstein

Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair
Reviewed by Kurt Brokaw

Book Brief Reviews

Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood’s Master of the Macabre (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Mitchell Abidor

Chris Marker: Early Film Writings (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Nadine Boljkovac

A Photographic Memory

Departments

Editorial

Letters

Contributors

Short Takes: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, A Photographic Memory, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Sugarcane, Zurawski v Texas.