Recently added articles from Cineaste:
Satyajit Ray: liberalism and its vicissitudes.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), whose films were showcased earlier this year in New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, has long been India's best-known filmmaker in the West. Initially hailed as an Indian incarnation of Robert Flaherty or Jean Renoir, Ray came to ...
I make cinema in order to breathe: an interview with Mohsen Makhmalbaf.(Interview)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The following interview took place in June 2008 at the Cines del Sur Film Festival in Granada, Spain. Makhmalbaf was the festival's guest of honor and a major retrospective of his work was presented. The festival also published a book-length critical study of the filmmaker's work (Mohsen ...
Dollars and sense: new documentaries on the financial crisis.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Nowadays whenever discussion turns to serious consideration of finance (the management of money) or economics (the financial science of the production and use of goods and services), especially once the esoteric concepts and arcane acronyms are trotted out, most people's eyes begin to ...
A filmmaker at the barricades: the cinematic and political evolution of Mohsen Makhmalbaf.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The cinema of Mohsen Makhmalbaf reflects the turbulent times and dramatic transformations that the man and his nation have undergone in the last thirty years. Unlike most world-class filmmakers, Makhmalbaf has never settled into a signature style; his work is constantly changing, marked by ...
Torn from today's headlines.(EDITORIAL)(movie criticism)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009 ... Given film history's legacy, it would be difficult to argue that noble or idealistic subject matter invariably inspires great cinema. Profound political and social issues have frequently generated bad or mediocre films, while seemingly trivial concerns occasionally fuel masterpieces, ...