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Terrible Beauty: Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas’ The Oxbow Cure 23 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
By Jason Anderson Though feelings of fear and pain are palpable in almost every moment of The Oxbow Cure, a curious sense of exhilaration cuts through the frigid dead. Maybe that’s due to the co-direc...
Home Sweet Homeless: The Harmonious Dissonance of Otar Iosseliani 10 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
By Celluloid Liberation Front “Censorship in the west is like everywhere else, it forces my colleagues to follow certain rules—the first rule being the box office.”—Otar Iosseliani Almost unnoticed,...
The Talented Mr. Allen: Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine 2 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
By Adam Nayman Cate Blanchett’s best film performance remains her slight but crucial supporting turn in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1998). Playing Meredith Logue, a nouveau-riche heiress who has trained ...
Men With Guns: Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt 20 Jul 2013 | 04:52 am
By Michael Sicinski “You can be a one-hit wonder, so long as you make it count.” A film programmer friend of mine made this remark a few years back, regarding a particular avant-garde filmmaker who ...
Mourning in America: Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station 17 Jul 2013 | 11:16 pm
By Adam Nayman Pulling into a gas station to fill up after a morning spent doing errands, Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) witnesses a speeding car barrels over a stray dog hanging out on the curb. Sta...
Lustfully Sifting Through the Archives of Cinema: Il Cinema Ritrovato XXVII 12 Jul 2013 | 12:38 am
By Celluloid Liberation Front “Variety and multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.”—Marquis De Sade Were we to emulate the Biblical terminology Il Cinema Ritrovato employs to describe...
Issue 55 Table of Contents 27 Jun 2013 | 09:06 pm
This is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 55. We post a few selected articles from each issue on the site. For the complete content, and to help Cinema Scope cont...
Cinema Scope 55 Editor’s Note 27 Jun 2013 | 09:06 pm
Through the muddy fog of mental and physical exhaustion, Issue 55 of Cinema Scope is brought into the world, and my weary womb bears multiple scars. This number holds a special place in my heart as I ...
Pretending That Life Has No Meaning: Paul Schrader’s The Canyons 26 Jun 2013 | 09:06 pm
By Phil Coldiron It starts with a look. And then another, and another, and before you know it 90 minutes have gone by in a rush of looks, because that’s all anyone does in Los Angeles—they look. The f...
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, US) 26 Jun 2013 | 09:06 pm
By Jason Anderson For all the delight it takes in displaying the hard, shiny surfaces of its celebrity subject’s beloved “Austrian rhinestones,” the luxury automobiles he buys on a whim, and gilded cr...
