Why Criticism: Chasing Restorations, from Wong Kar-Wai to Wonder Woman
“The total dominance of our digital cinema platforms has forced cinephiles to reckon with their own assumptions and understanding of the medium.”
Collecting Movies with Film Archivist Alicia Coombs
Greg Carlson Interviews Film Archivist Alicia Coombs
Collecting Movies with Rob Dunkelberger
Greg Carlson Interviews Rob Dunkelberger About Collecting Movies
Collecting Movies with ‘Broken Bird’ Filmmaker Rachel Harrison Gordon
Greg Carlson Interviews ‘Broken Bird’ Flmmaker Rachel Harrison Gordon
Collecting Movies with Writer-Director Rachel Carey
Greg Carlson Interviews ‘Ask for Jane’ Director Rachel Carey About Movie Collecting
Local Heroes: Alistair Ryder on Odeon Leeds-Bradford
“If the cinema was responsible for so many happy childhood memories, how could I continue to embrace reminiscing when it was equally responsible for the soul-crushing tedium of a public-facing retail job?”
Collecting Movies with ‘Black Sunday’ Author Matt Dreiling
Greg Carlson Interviews ‘Black Sunday’ Author Matt Dreiling About Movie Collecting
Why Criticism: A Guide to Making Up Your Own Mind
“Film criticism is so vital not because it’s a service, but because it’s a tool — a way for each person to arrive at the final word on each film they see from the critic that matters most: themselves.”
Collecting Movies with Mallory O’Meara
Greg Carlson Interviews Mallory O’Meara (‘The Lady from the Black Lagoon’) About Movie Collecting
Why Criticism: Film as a Business First
“Film criticism unable to confront film’s relationship to business is destined to fail and will continue to reproduce the same tired critiques of cinema.”
Local Heroes: Elle Haywood on Arts Picturehouse Cambridge
“Arts Picturehouse Cambridge unearthed the feisty, passionate person that I am today, and made me want to help change the cinematic landscape for the better.”
Why Criticism: Against Nostalgia
“More than ever, it is crucial to contemplate what this nostalgia phenomenon means for the future of the arts and our discomfort with the new. Will there be a ‘new’ in the new world?”
Why Criticism: Dismantling the Boys’ Club in Horror
“The main reason I write about horror movies, aside from having a deep and abiding love for them, is that I have a perspective unique to me. But, for certain men, that’s not enough.”
Collecting Movies with Brady Daley
Greg Carlson Interviews Brady Daley About Movie Collecting
Why Criticism: Nichols / Soderbergh
“In their conversations, Soderbergh and Nichols work together to dismantle the artificial dividing line between art and criticism, neatly moving between the two…”
Why Criticism: Brian De Palma and Film as Film Criticism
“If the point of criticism is to bring the reader closer to the artwork, then Schrader’s reviews of other films are as important as his own to understanding his perspective.”
Collecting Movies with Production Designer Caity Birmingham
Greg Carlson Interviews Production Designer Caity Birmingham About VHS Collecting
Collecting Movies with ‘Riplist’ Director Mike Scholtz
Greg Carlson Interviews Documentarian Mike Scholtz About VHS Collecting
Why Criticism: Not Quite the Apocalypse
“In Australia, our cinematic art has been trying to shake us from apathy for 50 years.”
Why Criticism: The Race to Problematize Bittersweet Horror Endings
“In order to fully engage with horror films, it’s important to look at the monster and the world that’s being upended by that monster.”