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 CINEMA SCOPE TOP TEN 2017

Paul Schrader • Deliberate Boredom in the Church of Cinema

“You Never Heard of Code-Switching, Motherfucker?” • Joseph Kahn’s Bodied

Community/Theatre • A Conversation with Stephen Cone

The Changing View of Man in the Portrait • Errol Morris’ Wormwood

Whatever Happened to Lizzie Borden? • “This fight will not end in terrorism and violence. It will not end in a nuclear holocaust. It begins in the celebration of the rites of alchemy. The transformation of shit into gold. The illumination of dark chaotic night into light. This is the time of sweet, sweet change for us all.”

Do It Again • On Ricky D’Ambrose’s Words and Images

IN MEASURED PRAISE OF KAWASE NAOMI

THE MISTRESS OF SUSPENSE • Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca

Let England Shake • Mick Jackson’s Threads and the Imagination of Disaster

Let Art Flourish, Let the World Perish • Morgan Fisher on Another Movie

Root Down • Yto Barrada’s Tree Identification for Beginners

Eye of the Beholder • Paul Clipson (1965-2018)

What’s the Story?

Season of the Bear

Chronicles of Deaths Forestalled • The Leftovers

Heat-Shimmer Cinema • Suzuki Seijun’s Taisho Trilogy

A Few Peripheral Matters

Hometown Horror • Robin Aubert’s Les affamés

Visages villages • Agnès Varda & JR | France

Ava • Sadaf Foroughi | Iran/Canada/Qatar

The Work • Jairus McLeary & Gethin Aldous | US

High Fantasy • Jenna Bass | South Africa

A Fantastic Woman • Sebastián Lelio | Chile

Bruce Conner’s Crossroads