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 Land Demands Your Effort • C.W Winter (and Anders Edström) on The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

DAU. Diary & Dialogue • Part One: A Living World

The Limits of Control • The Militant Cinema of Med Hondo

As If We Were Dreaming It • Christian Petzold’s Undine

Traces of Desire • Robert Kramer in France

In Search of the Female Gaze

Have It Your Own Way • Dorothy Arzner’s Dance, Girl, Dance

Live(stream) and In Person • Watching Zia Anger’s My First Film in the Age of Quarantine

The Math of Love Triangles • Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Trigonometry

Six Impossible Colours (Out Of Space) • H.P. Lovecraft and Cinema

The People United Will Never Be Defeated • Igor Levit’s Hauskonzerts

Ozark’s America and the Rise of the Longform

Socially Distant • Visions du Réel 2020

Diverse Kinds of Do-it-Yourself Subterfuge, Mainly American

NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS • Eliza Hittman, US

BLOOD QUANTUM • Jeff Barnaby, Canada

THE VAST OF NIGHT • Andrew Patterson, US

S01E03 • Kurt Walker, Canada/US

No President • Jack Smith, 1967-1970