In reviewing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER for our new issue, Robert Koehler writes of "the movie’s crucial twist, the one that scrambles and complicates any critical attempt to place it on an ideological graph as, for example, a work of antifascist cinema." More here: www.cineaste.com/spring2026/o...

My dear friend, George Rafael, is in this latest issue, reviewing John Caps' Overhearing Film Music: Conversations with Screen Composers. Get the book and by all means get Cineaste, the leading magazine on the art and politics of cinema.

The Spring issue of Cineaste is here! On the cover: Wagner Moura in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s THE SECRET AGENT Order the issue and learn more here: www.cineaste.com

Hiroshi Shimizu @outskirtsmag.bsky.social, John Akomfrah @ Brooklyn Rail, Robert Vas @prospectmagazine.co.uk, Jonathan Rosenbaum @chicagoreader.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

In HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, Adam Bingham writes in our winter issue, Spike Lee is able to "on the one hand, acknowledge and pay his respects to a distinctive forebear and, on the other, make an adaptation that feels, for better or worse, very much his own." More on the issue here: www.cineaste.com

"THE HISTORY OF SOUND is about the fleeting nature of love and life itself, the pain this inflicts on human souls, and our impulse to fight against it." Megan Feeney reviews the film in our latest issue! More here: www.cineaste.com/winter2025/t...

Check it out! Cineaste editor @gkevinlally.bsky.social offers a "2025 Ten Best List" over at his website: kevinlallyonfilm.com/2025/12/29/a...

"Unlike many classic noirs and gangster films of the studio era, Fritz Lang’s 1953 masterpiece The Big Heat treats women both seriously and sympathetically." David Sterritt reviews for our winter issue: www.cineaste.com/winter2025/t...

David Lynch @artforum.com, postwar British cinema @nybooks.com, Kevin Brownlow @theguardian.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social, new Found Footage Magazine, more best-of-2025 lists and one big poll … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Our Winter 2025 issue is in mailboxes and on newsstands now! In the issue: Graham Fuller on John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy Cynthia Lucia on 'Splendor in the Grass' A translation of Pasolini's "Notes on Fellini's Nights of Cabiria" & much more! Order the issue and read more here: www.cineaste.com

"Celine Song’s follow-up to Past Lives (2023) is not just another Rom-Com—it’s a sultry, precision-engineered satire about what happens when emotional intimacy becomes just another asset class." In our fall issue, Jalyn Bessonette reviews MATERIALISTS! Read here: www.cineaste.com/fall2025/mat...

Miguel Coyula's 'Crónicas del Absurd' (Chronicles of the Absurd), featured in the spring 2025 issue of Cineaste, will screen in New York City at the El Museo del Barrio on November 20th! More here: www.elmuseo.org/event/film-s...

"I'd acquired a permanently heightened awareness of how truly mesmerizing a powerfully presented action scene can be." In our fall issue, David Sterritt reviews the new Criterion 4K UHD + Blu-ray of William Friedkin's SORCERER (1977). Read more here: www.cineaste.com/fall2025/sor...

"In the pantheon of classical Hollywood stars, few shone as bright as Joan Crawford." In our latest issue, Olympia Kiriakou reviews Robert Dance's new biography, 'Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom.' More here: www.cineaste.com/fall2025/fer...

Our Fall 2025 issue is here! Articles on film adaptations of Cormac McCarthy and the work of Oscar Micheaux. Interviews with Karan Kandhari, Michael Winterbottom, Claude Lelouch, Marcel Ophuls. And much more. Read more and order the issue here: www.cineaste.com

"I’ve always been drawn more to movies as a way to experience space and time differently; not to be wrapped up in a plot." In our latest issue, Paul Risker talks with Carson Lund, director of EEPHUS. Read the full interview here:

On August 11, Miguel Coyula’s CHRONICLES OF THE ABSURD opens the Cuban Cultural Center of New York's Summer Film Festival! More info here: www.cubanculturalcenter.org/events/2025/...

"During her life, [Diana] Rigg conquered Broadway and her own British Isles. She was a master of her craft, and a cracking good feminist, in spite of herself." In our latest issue, Page Laws reviews 'One Tough Dame,' a new biography by Herbie J. Pilato. More here: www.cineaste.com/summer2025/o...

The Motion Pictures Program at Wright State University has established a new position, the Julia Reichert Endowed Director of the Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures. A fundraising campaign for the position is currently underway. Learn more here: liberal-arts.wright.edu/sites/libera...

The holy trinity of 1970s Neo-noir? The Long Goodbye, Chinatown, and Night Moves. In our summer issue, Jonathan Kirshner considers Arthur Penn's film for its 50th anniversary. More here: www.cineaste.com/summer2025/h...

Our Summer 2025 issue is here! On the cover: Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in John Ford's THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940). The issue includes a review of the new found footage epic, HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT, and an interview with its director, Alexander Horwath. More at our website: www.cineaste.com

As @grahamfuller.bsky.social writes in our latest issue, the ending of Jesse Eisenberg's sophomore feature, A REAL PAIN, is "no small miracle." Read Graham's full review online here: www.cineaste.com/spring2025/a...

"Self-portraiture signifies a retreat from the world into the private space of the self." In our latest issue, Darragh O’Donoghue writes on the films of Leos Carax, whose autobiographical essay film 'It’s Not Me' screened at Cannes last May. Read more here: www.cineaste.com/spring2025/s...

"When I watched Kidman's Romy glide imperiously past a warren of small glass cubicles on the way to her own enormous office, I experienced unwanted flashbacks to her AMC Theatres commercials ..." In our spring issue, Mary F. Corey reviews BABYGIRL. Order and read more here: www.cineaste.com

“There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!” In our Spring 2025 issue, Thomas Doherty quotes Henri Langlois in his review of the new release of PANDORA'S BOX (1929) by Criterion. Read more here: www.cineaste.com/spring2025/p...

"As in La Jetée, and throughout Marker’s practices, it is the woman’s direct gaze that arrests the reader/spectator." In our new issue, Nadine Boljkovac reviews 'Chris Marker: Early Film Writings by Chris Marker,' ed. Steven Ungar, trans. Sally Shafto. Read here: www.cineaste.com/spring2025/c...

Michael Mann @vulture.com + @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Alfred Brendel @prospectmagazine.co.uk, CAFÉ FLESH @theguardian.com, Miguel Gomes @ MUBI + @thefilmstage.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Our Spring 2025 issue is available now! Articles on Leos Carax, cinema censorship & the Cuban Revolution, Masahiro Shinoda, the French New Wave, and THE CLOCK Interviews w/ Payal Kapadia, Denis Lavant, Rithy Panh, Alonso Ruizpalacios, and Miguel Gomes & much more! Read here: www.cineaste.com

In a web exclusive published as part of the magazine's winter issue (available now!) Mitchell Abidor writes on the "principles and debatable political allegiances" of militant documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens. Read here: www.cineaste.com/winter2024/t...

I’m pleased to announce my first cover story for Cineaste—my interview with writer-director Sean Baker about his Palme d’Or winner ‘Anora.’ Cineaste is old-school, so you need to subscribe to read it. www.cineaste.com

The Winter 2024 issue is here! Interviews w/ Sean Baker, Alessandra Lacorazza, Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, and Mike Leigh Articles on John Farrow, Marcel Ophuls, avant-docs Reviews of new releases, home viewing, books, festivals and much more! Subscribe and read more here: www.cineaste.com

"The transformation from milquetoast to murderer occurs in the blink of an eye; character, it seems, is not permanent but fluid." In our fall issue, Thomas Doherty reviews Richard Linklater's HIT MAN. Read more and order the issue here: www.cineaste.com/fall2024/hit...

Very, very excited for this!

"I can hardly imagine a more complete biography of an artist who, by just about everyone’s account, deserves the label 'genius.'” Todd Berliner reviews Carrie Courogen's biography, Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius. www.cineaste.com/fall2024/mis...

Hello Blue Sky! Follow along for updates on the magazine, including our winter issue, which will hit newsstands and mailboxes very soon! In the meantime, check out our Fall 2024 issue: www.cineaste.com