Author Nace Zavrl

Film history is back in vogue, or perhaps it never went away. When Il Cinema Ritrovato – likely the world’s largest and most popular event dedicated to archival, outmoded, and newly restored film – opened at th...

“Would you agree that images of empty streets and houses, which had otherwise been bustling, suggest an unusual, otherwise uncommon absence of the person, the citizen?” This is one of Selma Doborac’s queries in...

For all its central importance and stature in the history of Golden Age Mexican cinema, Fred Zinnemann and Emilio Gómez Muriel’s Redes (The Wave, 1936) has attracted remarkably little critical or scholarly atte...

Harun Farocki died suddenly in July 2014, but his formidable intellect lives on in a remarkable body of work, as acute and prescient now as ever before. In a ninety-film corpus as prolific as it is heterogeneou...