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

Workingman’s Death • Radu Jude on Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

First Looks • Chantal Akerman at 17

Outside In • Eduardo Williams on The Human Surge 3

Savagery Begins at Home • The Film Rituals of Joshua Gen Solondz

The Phantom of the Opera • Atom Egoyan on Seven Veils

The Arc of the Moral Universe • The Films of Deepa Dhanraj

Afterlife • Kleber Mendonça Filho on Pictures of Ghosts

The King is Dead, Long Live the King • Towards a Brief History of Chess in the Movies

Cork Soaker • William Friedkin, 1935–2023

Deleuze and Criticism • The Cinema Books at 40

Flowers of the Mind • On Rose Lowder

Reassessments

L’ÉTÉ DERNIER • Catherine Breillat, France

MADEMOISELLE KENOPSIA • Denis Côté, Canada

OPPENHEIMER • Christopher Nolan, US

ORLANDO, MA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE • Paul B. Preciado, France

PERFECT DAYS • Wim Wenders, Japan/Germany

TALK TO ME • Danny and Michael Philippou, Australia