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

EDITOR’S NOTE

Show Biz Kids • Paul Thomas Anderson on Licorice Pizza

Higher Power • Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta and the Legacy of Nunsploitation

Too Good at Goodbyes • The Souvenir Part II and Joanna Hogg’s Cinema of Memory

The Flower and the Braided Rope • Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog

The Other Half Is You • Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato and Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession

What Lies Beyond • Michelangelo Frammartino on Il buco

CINEMA STUDIES

Looking for Trouble • Interventionist Documentaries and the Practice of Conflict

In a Year of Six Kostrovs

Grace Notes and Ghosts • Jan Troell’s The Emigrants and The New Land

Benediction • Terence Davies, UK/US

Earwig • Lucile Hadihalilovic, UK/France/Belgium

Espíritu sagrado • Chema García Ibarra, Spain

El Gran Movimiento • Kiro Russo, Bolivia/France/Qatar/Switzerland

A Night of Knowing Nothing • Payal Kapadia, India/France

Outside Noise • Ted Fendt, Germany/South Korea/Austria

The Space Between • The Films of Borhane Alaouié

The Gift of Charity • Faraz Anoushapour, Parastoo Anoushapour, and Ryan Ferko’s Charity and Surface Rites

Musique concrète • Lucy Raven’s Ready Mix

Deliveries of Smart Dialogue by Dieterle and Others

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

CRY MACHO

Ken Jacobs’ Blonde Cobra