Film

Browse our essays and reviews on film and TV.

Selling (Out) Nabokov

Lolita, directed by Adrian Lyne.

  • Alan A. Stone

The Toad and the Butterfly

Character, directed by Mike van Diem.

  • Alan A. Stone

Realization and Recognition

The art and life of John Fante.

  • Neil Gordon

An Interview with Margarethe Von Trotta

“I can’t say that I’m really hating men, but things come out unconsciously.”

  • Margarethe Von Trotta
  • Gerald Peary

Revealing Gestures

Interviewing documentarian Frederick Wiseman.

  • Frederick Wiseman
  • Alan Stern

The Case of “The Unfinished Sentence”

  • Steven Kovacs

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Ingmar Bergman and His Audiences

  • Carol Clover
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