Author Joshua Sperling

War is a limit-experience for human communities. In the modern era this has often meant nation states, which during periods of total conflict become communities of bounded fate. In these circumstances, human re...

A.O. Scott is one of the few film critics working today whose fuller personality comes through in their prose. From his weekly reviews for the New York Times – always animated, hyper-readable, and often subtly ...

After twenty-five years under the stewardship of Richard Peña, the New York Film Festival presented its 51st event with a new director, Kent Jones. The selection committee largely honoured NYFF’s model of showi...