We’ve noticed that Mark Fisher's text Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is creating a lot of interest amongst the younger generation in Italy. Written in English in 2009, but only ...

Studio Ghibli films may be known for their fantastical imagination, but keeping things real is one of their secret strengths. Uploaded to YouTube by filmmaker and video essayist Asher Isbrucker, “The ...

Is there anything Martin Scorcese can’t do? Of course, there’s a science of sorts to the movie magic that he so effortlessly conjures in film after film, and this new video essay courtesy of The Film ...

Very much on the sidelines, I’ve waited a couple of weeks to write anything about my pal A.O. Scott’s passionate and wide-ranging New York Times Magazine essay heralding a “Neo-Neorealism” — a piece ...

Preface: essays in honour of Alex Potts -- Introduction: realism then and now / Andrew Hemingway -- The transactions of detail / Briony Fer -- Realism's credibility problem / Joshua Shannon -- ...

Pulitzer finalist Okrent (The Guarded Gate) crafts an intimate and detailed biography of late composer and lyricist Sondheim, who died in 2021 and whose credits include Sweeney Continue reading » ...