Akiva Gottlieb writes for The Nation, the Los Angeles Times and Dissent, and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
For Jonathan Rosenbaum, the golden age of filmgoing is as dead as the drive-in, but cinephilia is thriving.
In his Letters from Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa treats the balance of form and content as a moral imperative.
Against the background of the surge, David Finkel twists the concept of wartime good into a cosmic joke.
A new volume of essays shows Hollis Frampton leaving behind photography for film.
A callous vigilante and sentimental old fogy, Clint Eastwood has become indivisible from his myth.
Angel Wagenstein and the evolution of modern Jewish storytelling.
With his new play Kicking a Dead Horse, Sam Shepard is still stranded in a prairie of tough-guy cliché.
Now with a major label, political punk rockers Against Me! have released what may be the year's best album. But have they sold out?
Charles Ferguson answers questions about his gripping new documentary that takes aim at those who took us to war in Iraq.
