Cinema Scope

With unparalleled depth and breadth, Cinema Scope is one of the most respected English-language publications on film worldwide. Cinema Scope unites experienced critics from across North America with up-and-coming writers. Packed with reviews, essays, festival reports, and interviews, we’re geared to cinephiles looking for an intelligent forum on world cinema. “Advocates for a passionate, poltical and purist engagement with the movies”—The New York Times

Cinema Scope

Editor’s Note

It Happened One Night • Alexandre Koberidze on What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Brief Encounters • Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

“I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction” • On Radu Jude

Can’t Get You Out of My Head • Dasha Nekrasova on The Scary of Sixty-First

Crisis Management • Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta

CINEMA STUDIES • A new four-year Honours Bachelor of Arts program

Common Sense Connoisseur • The Critical Legacy of Bertrand Tavernier

Remembering Women • Claudia von Alemann’s Blind Spot

Depth is Real • A Conversation with Jean-Claude Rousseau

To Each His Own Cinema • Zhang Yimou’s One Second

In the Earth • Kier-La Janisse’s Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Between the Lines • On the Films of Joan Micklin Silver

Monte Hellman • The Art of Going Nowhere

Neutrality is Not an Option • Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes

The Grindhouse Genet • In Praise of Andy Milligan

PETITE MAMAN • Céline Sciamma, France

AZOR • Andreas Fontana, Switzerland / France / Argentina

FAYA DAYI • Jessica Beshir, US / Ethiopia / Qatar

ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE • Zack Snyder, US

NEW ORDER • Michel Franco, Mexico / France

THE DISCIPLE • Chaitanya Tamhane, India

THE EMPTY MAN • David Prior, US

SIBERIA • Abel Ferrara, Italy / Germany / Mexico / Greece / UK

Eberhard and Phyllis Kronhausen’s Psychomontage No. 1