What is Hollywood? Hollywood is a pool of money, power, and people. Hollywood is a monomaniacal schizophrenic, making films at the voices’ instruction. Each film represents a...
On Tuesday night, New Inquiry hosted a screening and panel of the 60s youth-revolution exploitation film Wild in the Streets, at The Kitchen in Soho. Every seat...
A review of Bennet Miller’s The Cruise (1998) The grid plan emanates from our weaknesses, this layout of avenues and streets, New York City, this system of...
The House That Dripped Blood, 1971 The growth in consumption inequality means more movies are made for the dwindling numbers of top earners WHO goes to the...
Alexey Titarenko Hans Keilson's novels point out the inadequacy of a purely psychological or philosophical approach to history. Four years in, we’ve yet to see a great...
Translations transfer meanings from one language into another. Metaphors and similes transfer and connect meanings between different linguistic contexts within a single language. But, as far as...
"Auditory landscapes can also be interpolations between space and time, space and reality, the psycho-social and the geographic, and temporality and memory. The act of listening involves...
Jasper Bernes is a poet and author whose work on Occupy has appeared in The New Inquiry. He has published three books of poetry: Starsdown (2007), Desequencer...
FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: MAY 2013 The subversive and revolutionary cinema that emerged from Eastern Europe in the sixties and seventies is an incredibly original, bizarre,...
Capitalist agriculture has found the best spot to store its surplus in the bodies of workers. It happened last summer without much media fanfare: Mexico surpassed the United...
From Assault on Wall Street (2013), directed by Uwe Boll It's director Uwe Boll's incompetence that permits his films to make a radical critique of contemporary violence...
...and is made up almost entirely of Panahi talking to the camera and to his friend, director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. A/V Editor Willie Osterweil and writer and theater director Patrick Harrison...