Going Nowhere: “The Descendants” and “Young Adult”
Mark Fisher reviews Alexander Payne’s The Descendants and Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, two films about journeys that end in uncertainty rather than self-discovery.
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Todd Haynes’s “Mildred Pierce”: A Discussion
A web-exclusive debate about Todd Haynes’s miniseries Mildred Pierce between Amber Jacobs and Rob White, covering questions of desire, labor, economics, psychoanalysis, and feminism.
Non-film: Steve McQueen’s “Shame”
Mark Fisher reviews Steve McQueen’s bleak, blank tale of New York addiction and emptiness, starring Michael Fassbender, Shame.
Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”: A Discussion
Nina Power and Rob White discuss the politics and aesthetics of Lars von Trier’s end-of-the-world drama, Melancholia.
Rare Westerns from the Archive
Edward Buscombe reviews The West, 1898–1938, the latest boxed set from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
“A Very Peculiar Practice”
A review of the cult British TV show, A Very Peculiar Practice, a black comedy set in a regional university in the Thatcher era.
David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method”
Megan Ratner’s review of David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method incorporating interview comments by the director.
London Film Festival 2011: The Dark Side
Report from the London Film Festival 2011: Dark Horse (Todd Solondz), We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay), Shame (Steve McQueen), Carnage (Roman Polanski), A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg), and Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos).
Escape Artistry: Debating “The Skin I Live In”
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Paul Julian Smith (Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY) discusses Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In with FQ editor Rob White.
Excerpt: Films of the Year 2010
Each summer, legendary film critic and Film Quarterly Writer-at-Large James Naremore provides his retrospective of the best films released in the U.S. during the previous year. Here are excerpts of his top ten Films of the Year, 2010.