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

En plein air • Denis Côté on Hygiène sociale

Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Fern Silva’s Itinerary

The Primacy of Perception • Ramon & Silvan Zürcher on The Girl and the Spider

We Can’t Go Home Again • On the Films of Simon Liu

Learning to Swim • Dominik Graf on Fabian – Going to the Dogs

Taipei Confidential • Taiwan’s “Black Movies”

Modern Mabuse • On Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales

Hollywood Ending • Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe’s The Beta Test

Gag Orders • The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Judas and the Black Messiah

The Ghost Goes East • Ernie Gehr’s Lower East Side Trilogy

Reclaiming the Dream • Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk

Not My Type • Stanley Cavell and the Invention of Genre

The Politics of Dancing • Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out of My Head

Sundance 2021 • In the Year of COVID

Rotterdam 2021 • Roars and Whimpers

Reading Aids • The Good Woman of Sichuan and Ste. Anne

A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX • Rodney Ascher, US

MINARI • Lee Isaac Chung, US

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN • Emerald Fennell, UK/US

DAYS OF CANNIBALISM • Teboho Edkins, France/South Africa/Netherlands

SOUND OF METAL • Darius Marder, US

Steina & Woody Vasulka