On Cinema
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
Animation grows up
Jibaro is an artistic triumph
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Day of the junta
Political thrillers from South America
Films for free
The digital preservation of thousands of Polish feature films and documentaries is a gift to international film culture
A silent crook
The recent restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives shows that the original movie is astonishingly modern
’Verse averse
The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge
Tanks a lot
“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say
Sob stories
Real men have grit in their eye