PRESTON STURGES’ WATERLOO: ‘THE GREAT MOMENT’

You may have overlooked Kino Lorber’s February Blu-ray release of The Great Moment (1944), starring Joel McCrea and Betty Field. It’s not an especially well-known title from the Paramount library, but it inspired Constantine Nasr, who produces

Women on Fire: Venice 2022

Orchestral manoeuvres: some ofthe most interesting films at Venice this year—including <em>TÁR</em>, <em>Saint Omer</em>, and <em>All the Beauty and the Bloodshed</em>—feature women of extraordinary ability and ego

Out of Frame

Frame rate: a long-awaited translation of the late French critic’s writings reveals a fascination with what’s included in the frame and what’s left out, and the moral and political stakes of that choice