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

Apt Pupil • Bi Gan on Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Exchange Rate • The Silent Partner at 40

Transgressions in the Dark Age • The Films of Kim Ki-young and Lee Hwa-si

Towards an Anthropology of Colour • The Films of Sara Cwynar

Corrupted Affections • Bill Gunn in the Rear-View

Last One Out of Germany • Ulrich Köhler’s In My Room

The Debussy Cramp

I Like America and America Likes Me • An Interview with Lars von Trier

Le livre d’image • Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/France

Shoplifters • Kore-eda Hirokazu, Japan

BlacKkKlansman • Spike Lee, US

Happy as Lazzaro • Alice Rohrwacher, Italy/Switzerland/France/Germany

The Morals of Nature • Lee Chang-dong on Burning

Ash Is Purest White • Jia Zhangke, China/France/Japan

Asako I & II • Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan

Dead Souls • Wang Bing, France/Switzerland

Climax • Gaspar Noé, France

Merci pour tout • Pierre Rissient (1936-2018)

Stiffest Upper Lip • Michael Anderson (1920-2018)

Find Me Guilty • Fritz Lang’s While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

First Looks, Second Thoughts

Filmworker • Tony Zierra, US

The Rider • Chloé Zhao, US

Drift • Helena Wittmann, Germany

Shirkers • SandiTan, US

Harry Dodge’s Whacker