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

Philosophy in the Woods • Albert Serra’s Libertines

Come on Feel the Noise • The Films of Andrés Duque

Truth and Method • The Films of Thomas Heise

A Case for “Mere” Recording • Films by Ryan Ermacora and Jessica Johnson

Thinking in Images • Scott Walker and Cinema

The Meeting of Two Queens • Doris Wishman and Peggy Ahwesh

The Good Fight • The Films of Julia Reichert

Double Takes • Agnès Varda, 1928–2019

Cannes 2019 • Return to Form

Parasite • Bong Joon Ho, South Korea

Atlantique • Mati Diop, France/Belgium/Senegal

Bacurau • Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Brazil/France

It Must Be Heaven • Elia Suleiman, France/Qatar/Germany/Canada/Turkey/Palestine

Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo • Abdellatif Kechiche, France

Jeanne • Bruno Dumont, France

Tommaso • Abel Ferrara, Italy/UK/US

Killer Styles • The 51st Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

J’ai perdu mon corps • Jérémy Clapin, France

Nuestras Madres • César Díaz, Guatemala/Belgium/France

Curses and Blessings • Moving Images at the 58th Venice Biennale

Everybody Plays the Fool • Succession

Extras and Streaming, Now, Then, and There

The Souvenir • Joanna Hogg, UK / US

The Hottest August • Brett Story, Canada/US

Diamantino • Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Portugal/France/Brazil

Too Late to Die Young • Dominga Sotomayor, Chile/Brazil/Argentina/Netherlands/Qatar

Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It