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Readings

Readings: Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa

By Chris Shields
March 23, 2018
Man behind the monsters: a biography of the kaiju director shines light onto his aesthetics and principles

Readings: Eisenstein on Paper: Graphic Works by the Master of Film

By Peter Goldberg
February 5, 2018
Sketch artist: a new collection of Eisenstein’s drawings elaborates on his unrealized projects and passion for the bold image

Readings: After Uniqueness + Smutty Little Movies

By Tyler Maxin
November 15, 2017
Home entertainment: two new books rewind the impact of video on film culture and pornography

Readings: Unchained Melody + Ghost in the Shell

By Marc Walkow
November 1, 2017
Heroine chic: new books from Arrow offer information about live-action and anime classics that were previously unavailable in English

Readings: James Agee’s Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts

By Jonathan Rosenbaum
October 16, 2017
Be careful what you wish for: a comprehensive collection of the critic’s reviews for Nation and Time does not serve to burnish his legend

The Devil and Miss Mansfield

By J. Hoberman
September 7, 2017
A lurid collection of photographs descends into decadent late 1960s Hollywood

Readings: Anne Bancroft: A Life

By Scott Eyman
August 31, 2017
Postgraduate studies: the actress’s work was defined by her intelligence and no-nonsense demeanor

In Brief: Staring Back

By Phillip Lopate
May 31, 2011
An extended review of Chris Marker's Staring Back

Life as We Show It: Writing on Film

By Nicola Evans
May 26, 2011
(Edited by Brian Pera and Masha Tupitsyn, published by City Lights)

Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970

By Dennis Harvey
May 16, 2011
Not so dirty movies: how Scandinavian art cinema and sexual permissiveness let the porn genie out of the bottle