Book Reviews

“Expanded cinema” as a term is invitingly grandiose, connoting expansion, breadth, inclusivity, even possibility. Something bigger. Something better. ...

In the 1960s, the experimental cinema scene was exploding on a world wide basis. In the era before digital technology, cellphones and email, film was ...

Film stars are like mirages: although we can see them, we know that they’re not really what they appear to be. They play characters born of scripts, b...

To the rest of the world, Japanese cinema is mostly identified with three big names – Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi. For Japanese c...

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 c...

Philippe Garrel is now in his seventies and has behind him a body of work that looked initially like it might have become no more (and no less) than a...

In a recent blog post for Columbia University Press – “Anxious Afterthoughts on Anxious Cinephilia” – Sarah Keller provides her latest book with a cas...

Steven Ungar’s Critical Mass groups together and examines three-and-a-half decades worth of non-fiction filmmaking in France, making a compelling case...