Indie Directors

David Cronenberg We’ve mentioned David Cronenberg’s first novel more than a few times already, but we’ll have to again because, hey, Jonathan Lethem‘s reviewed it …

“Cronenberg isn’t moonlighting; he’s a real novelist.” “Consumed is clearly the work of David Cronenberg,” begins Chuck Bowen at the House Next Door. “The novel …

From “the great enthusiast” One of the first volumes of film criticism that I can remember reading in one fell swoop, cover to cover, is …

‘The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach’ as it may have appeared to some viewers in 1968 “Jean Marie Straub’s Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is …

Eric Rohmer’s ‘Love in the Afternoon’ Filmmaker editor Scott Macaulay interviews :: kogonada, “the somewhat mysterious, Nashville-based film essayist whose works have scored hundreds of …

Ventura, cover star Writing in bed “like Proust,” Cinema Scope editor Mark Peranson, resting up after Locarno and Toronto, introduces the new 60th issue with …

‘Double Play’ Gabe Klinger’s unique, intimate film debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion for Documentary on Cinema; earlier …

‘The Long Day Closes’ Michael Koresky’s Terence Davies will be out next Monday and the Brooklyn Rail is running an excerpt in which the Reverse …

Second Edition 1963 was a watershed year for film criticism, argues Henry K. Miller in Sight & Sound. For one thing, it was the “high …

Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub “I’m sorry to say that the last complete retrospective in the U.S. devoted to Jean-Marie Straub and the late Danièle …