Cinema Scope

With unparalleled depth and breadth, Cinema Scope is one of the most respected English-language publications on film worldwide. Cinema Scope unites experienced critics from across North America with up-and-coming writers. Packed with reviews, essays, festival reports, and interviews, we’re geared to cinephiles looking for an intelligent forum on world cinema. “Advocates for a passionate, poltical and purist engagement with the movies”—The New York Times

Cinema Scope

Editor’s note • THE CINEMA SCOPE TOP TEN OF 2021

Tales from the Unama’ki Hospital • Ashley McKenzie on Queens of the Qing Dynasty

I Know My Taste • James Benning, American Artist

Pointing the Moral Index Finger • Ruth Beckermann on Mutzenbacher

Change of Consciousness • Amos Vogel’s Centenary and the Legacy of Subversion

Not on the Lips • Claire Denis on Avec amour et acharnement

Waking Dreams • On the Films of Mikhaël Hers

Bravo, Richie • Ulrich Seidl on Rimini

Older Than the Trees • The Films of Jumana Manna

Don’t Look Now • The Righteous Evolution of Adam McKay

Out of the Blue and Into the Black • Derek Jarman’s Dead Souls Whisper

The New New Hollywood • On Nayman on Anderson and Fincher

No Innovation without History • Stephen Broomer and Michael Zryd’s Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada

Print the Legend • Peter Bogdanovich, 1939–2022

NEW BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘FROM WALT TO WOODSTOCK: HOW DISNEY CREATED THE COUNTER-CULTURE”

Circumstantial Encounters

La vie moderne • Louis Feuillade’s Tih-Minh

Spaceship Down

A Little Love Package • Gastón Solnicki, Austria/Argentina

A Flower in the Mouth • Éric Baudelaire, South Korea/France/Germany

NITRAM • Justin Kurzel, Australia

FLUX GOURMET • Peter Strickland, UK / US / Hungary

THE TALE OF KING CRAB • Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis, Italy / France / Argentina

AIR DOLL • Kore-eda Hirokazu, Japan