Cannesibles
At this year’s top film festival, people are served
No Money in Movies
In our flat content world, what becomes of classic filmmakers who haven't died yet? And will anyone replace them?
Looking at The Flick
In Annie Baker's Pulitzer-winning play The Flick, tensions over race, sex, and labor automation appear in a mirror
Lies and Videotape
In the best documentary films, artifice isn't an obstacle to truth, it's a way in
Marginal Returns
A small tour of independent black American film-making, past and recent past, from Amiri Baraka to Chris Rock
Festival Life
From New York to Switzerland, there are no films without banks
Living is Easy
When it comes to summer entertainment, movies are shouting about nothing into empty theatres. Then they kill everyone
Black President
By cramming two blockbusters into a single screen, J Hoberman made White House Butler Down, the ultimate in late-Obama cinema
Ranked Amateurs
In this month's installment of Aspect Ratio, Brandon looks at the new anti-NCAA documentary Schooled and the classic college basketball corruption movie Blue Chips
Short Circuit
Despite longer odds and smaller payoffs, America produces more independent filmmakers every year. What the hell are they thinking?
Grammar Lessons
Despite all odds and with no obvious financial incentives, a few directors still make movies that seek to re-imagine the form
An Interview with Michel Gondry
New Inquiry film columnist Brandon Harris interviewed French director Michel Gondry about his new movie: Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky
I'm Not a Philosopher (But I Play One in The Movies)
In the first installation of his film column Aspect Ratio, Brandon Harris looks at new movies featuring philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Noam Chomsky
This is 40?
Harmony Korine is pretty rad for a white dad
Pryor Restraint
Stuck in between the Hollywood star system and nascent independent cinema, Richard Pryor never got the roles he deserved, or the roles we needed him to play.