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

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Editor’s Note

The Play for Tomorrow • Steve McQueen’s Small Axe

The Crowd Is Dead, Long Live the Crowd!

All the Fountains of the Great Deep • Artavazd Pelechian’s La Nature

Minority Report • Armond White Wants to Make Spielberg Great Again

F for Fake • Mank

Minimalist Maximalism • The Hilarious Horror of Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow

I Thought I Was Seeing Palestinians • On Kamal Aljafari

The Limbs of Satan • A Century of Flappers on Film

Juliet Berto, où êtes vous?

Beginning • Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia/France

The Calming • Song Fang, China

City Hall • Frederick Wiseman, US

Genus Pan • Lav Diaz, Philippines

Her Socialist Smile • John Gianvito, US

Inconvenient Indian/Trickster • Michelle Latimer, Canada

There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse • Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina

Slow Reading

Auditorium of the Head • JG Ballard in (and on) Cinema

The Importance of Not Being an Auteur

NOMADLAND • Chloe Zhao, US

HILLBILLY ELEGY • Ron Howard, US

ANOTHER ROUND • Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark/Sweden

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM: DELIVERY OF PRODIGIOUS BRIBE TO AMERICAN REGIME FOR MAKE BENEFIT ONCE GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN • Jason Woliner, US

Michael Snow’s Cover to Cover