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

Editor’s Note

The Land of the Unknown • Roberto Minervini on What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?

“Poetry floats up in my memory like sailboats in the fog” • Alexei German’s Khrustalyov, My Car!

With Forever Presence • Jonathan Schwartz (1973-2018

Soft and Hard • Claire Denis on High Life

Encore • Dora García’s Segunda vez

Learning to Live Together • Three Films by Beatrice Gibson

Woman with a Whip • The Transgressive Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck

Ghost Operas • Music from the Films of Bertrand Bonello

The Man from Left Field • Burt Reynolds, Neglected Filmmaker

Belmonte • Federico Veiroj, Uruguay/Spain/Mexico

Edge of the Knife • Gwaai Edenshaw & Helen Haig-Brown, Haida/Canada

I Remember the Crows • Gustavo Vinagre, Brazil

A Land Imagined • Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore/France/Netherlands

Manta Ray • Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, Thailand/France/China

Nervous Translation • Shireen Seno, Philippines

Our Time • Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden

Rojo • Benjamin Naishtat, Argentina/Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany

Against Oblivion • Richard Billingham’s RAY & LIZ and Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi’s I diari di Angela—Noi due cineasti

Shorter Letters • Highlights from the Year in Canadian Shorts

A Tale of Two Handmaids

Some Blessings and Curses of Cinephilia

Roma • Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico/US

A Star Is Born • Bradley Cooper, US

The Favourite • Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/US/UK

Ken Jacobs’ Nervous Magic Lantern