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Monday, March 9, 2026

Grief and The Goshawk: H Is for Hawk and Other Recent Movies

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Claire Foy in H Is for Hawk . (Photo: Roadside Pictures.) Among the books I brought with me on a trip at the end of my semester break this y...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Imaging Irony: Without Empathy / 8 Filmmakers

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(Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press.) “Censorship is the mother of all metaphor.” Jorge Luis Borges It’s always heartening to encou...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Urgency and Grace: The National Ballet’s Flight Pattern and Suite en blanc

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The National Ballet of Canada company in  Flight Pattern . (Photo: Ted Belton.) The National Ballet of Canada opens its 2026 winter season w...
Monday, February 16, 2026

More from Criterion: His Girl Friday

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Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant in His Girl Friday . The complicated saga of the funniest comedy ever written by Americans began in 1928, wh...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Iconophilia: Perpetual Morphosis

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(Zone Books, Princeton University Press.) “Unframedness. Presentness. Immediateness. It is under these three titles — intimately related — t...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Dance You Want to Know: Small Screens, Post‑Pandemic Stages and the Pull of the Crowd

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A still from CDK Company's dance video, Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know." I’ve been noticing something. It started, ...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

New from Criterion: Unforgettable Women

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Sheryl Lee in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me . When David Lynch premiered his TV series Twin Peaks in 1990, no one had ever seen anything l...