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For Readers with a Passion for Screens: Film, TV, and moving images across platforms since 1959. Editor-in-Chief, J. M. Tyree. https://online.ucpress.edu/fq
Weekend Reads from FQ!
Showgirl - Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson
Interview with Errol Morris by Matthew Sorrento
Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael and Steven Spielberg
Plus: unlocked archives - Kael's greatest hits from FQ
online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/1
FQ featured at 3Quarksdaily! “When Pauline Kael started writing on film in the 1950s, the study of cinema had not yet been enshrined in academia. She educated herself.” Adrian Schober on Kael in FQ's new issue (link to full article):
3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
“The new Film Quarterly features a freely accessible interview with Errol Morris as well as articles on Pauline Kael and the ‘rebranding’ of Pamela Anderson,” writes David Hudson at Criterion Current!
22.09.2025 21:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in a still from Chantal Akerman’s black-and-white I’M HUNGRY, I’M COLD (1984).
Chantal Ackerman @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy + MUBI + 4Columns, new Serge Daney translations @laurentktz.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, villains @thebaffler.com, MEGADOC @theguardian.com + @newyorker.com, Mira Nair @ Club Ciné …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
At the UC Press Blog, FQ editor J. M. Tyree introduces Adrian Schober’s retrospective on Pauline Kael in FQ’s latest issue!
UC Press unlocked Kael’s greatest hits for FQ, including her takedown of auteur theory.
Read “Reverse Weather Vane”:
www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/p...
@ucpress.bsky.social
Journal cover for Film Quarterly, Fall 2025. Image of a woman saint looking up, surrounded by glowing light (movie still from The Ten Commandments, 1925). Cover text lists the issue articles as follows: DOSSIER: CINEMA AND PLEASURE, FEATURE: PAULINE KAEL’S ROMANTIC CRITICISM, RETROSPECTIVE: JEAN-PIERRE BEKOLO’S LES SAIGNANTES AT 20, REPORT: IRYNA TSILYK, INTERVIEW: ERROL MORRIS, COLUMNS: THE LAST SHOWGIRL, BABYGIRL.
FQ‘s new issue features free articles (link below)! 🍿
Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson’s Deobjectification
Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael’s Romantic Criticism
Matthew Sorrento interviews Errol Morris
Editor J. M. Tyree on the films of the quarter
online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/1
The digital issue of Film Quarterly 79.1 (Fall 2025) @filmquarterly.bsky.social is now live, with my interview with Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social , and other articles, currently free to read: online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/1 #chaosmansonmurders #separated #documentary
13.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It's here!!! *Very excited* to receive my copy of the new @filmquarterly.bsky.social -- which includes our *collectively edited* dossier on CINEMA AND PLEASURE. ❤️🎞️ @girishshambu.bsky.social @caetlin.bsky.social
filmquarterly.org/2025/09/12/f...
9/16/53: Max Ophüls masterpiece The Earrings of Madame De... w/Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica
More
PTA: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@tomhuddleston.bsky.social: www.timeout.com/movies/madam...
Laura Mulvey/ @filmquarterly.bsky.social: filmquarterly.org/2009/06/01/t...
Journal cover for Film Quarterly, Fall 2025. Image of a woman saint looking up, surrounded by glowing light (movie still from The Ten Commandments, 1925). Cover text lists the issue articles as follows: DOSSIER: CINEMA AND PLEASURE, FEATURE: PAULINE KAEL’S ROMANTIC CRITICISM, RETROSPECTIVE: JEAN-PIERRE BEKOLO’S LES SAIGNANTES AT 20, REPORT: IRYNA TSILYK, INTERVIEW: ERROL MORRIS, COLUMNS: THE LAST SHOWGIRL, BABYGIRL.
Cover reveal! FQ’s fall issue arrives soon with amazing stuff…
08.09.2025 14:32 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1If you’re around Cornell, you’re in for a real treat! Caetlin’s Film Quarterly article about I Saw the TV Glow, the dysphoria horror, (& more!) is a big hit with my students, and I love it too!
Free access:
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
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Book Cover: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion by Josslyn Luckett
Newly published: FQ contributing editor Josslyn Luckett's "Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A.," available from @ucpress.bsky.social!
www.ucpress.edu/books/toward...
Author photograph: Cathy Linh Che
In her new book, Becoming Ghost, poet Cathy Linh Che writes about how her parents were used as extras in Apocalypse Now.
FQ EIC J. M. Tyree discusses the book with the author at New England Review:
nereview.com/cathy-linh-c...
For fans of Wanda and Barbara Loden - Elena Gorfinkel's notes on the film and the filmmaker are free to read in FQ's Summer issue!
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
In FQ's new issue, Eliot Dunn interviews Jenni Olson on the 10th Anniversary of The Royal Road - free to read!
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
Newly published and free to read in FQ's Summer issue, Jim Knipfel explores the art and history of movie novelizations!
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
Let's try this again without the adult content block! Come for the cheeks, stay for the theory!
16.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to see a review of my @utexaspress.bsky.social book, Imagining the Method, in the latest issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social! Thank you, Magdalina El-Masry!
16.06.2025 17:42 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Free to read in our new issue, FQ contributing editor Caetlin Benson-Allott reassesses the butt shot in The Substance and Anora!
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
Journal cover for Film Quarterly Spring 2025 featuring a painted poster of an audience enjoying a Lumiere brothers film in 1895.
FQ‘s new issue features free articles (link below)! 🍿
-The Art and History of Movie Novelizations by Jim Knipfel
-Interview with Jenni Olson by Eliot Dunn
-Reassessing the Butt Shot by Caetlin Benson-Allott
-Wanda and Beyond by Elena Gorfinkel
-Editor's Notebook by J. M. Tyree
Frame from GOOD MANNERS, depicting a woman walking up a street in São Paulo at night, holding an umbrella.
My latest in the Summer issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social addresses the genre-blending traits and intersectionality of GOOD MANNERS, one my favorite films to teach. Open access link: shorturl.at/yvlg7
13.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
FQ's Summer issue is live for subscribers!
Look for unlocked articles soon...
online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/78/4
Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen reads: "Wanda and beyond - the world of Barbara Loden, June 2025, BFI Southbank."
Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen is a signed photograph of Barbara Loden.
Elena Gorfinkel's introduction to "Wanda and Beyond - the world of Barbara Loden" began a season of Loden screenings at BFI Southbank last evening in London! Gorfinkel's notes on the film and the filmmaker appear in FQ's forthcoming Summer issue...
04.06.2025 09:06 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Journal cover: Film Quarterly Summer 2025. Cover image: Text reads "Cinematographe Lumiere," painted poster of audience watching a film in 1895.
Cover reveal! Film Quarterly Summer issue coming soon...
03.06.2025 10:44 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0So much goodness here!
09.12.2024 18:46 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Final week of my “Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Media” class and teaching two favorites:
@kristenwarner.bsky.social’s “In The Time of Plastic Representation” (Film Quarterly) and Joe Tompkins’ “Woke Hollywood, All Hype Black Panther” (Film Criticism). My students’ pre-class responses were 🔥!
The winter issue 2024/25 of @filmquarterly.bsky.social is out now! I’ve got a piece, a centennial reappraisal of Hans Karl Breslauer’s silent, Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews), in it alongside contributions Caitlin Benson-Allott, Amy Herzog et al.
filmquarterly.org/2024/12/04/w...
Criterion Daily's @dwhdaily.bsky.social:
"Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow earned six Spirit Awards nominations and is the subject of an essay by Caetlin Benson-Allott featured on the cover of FQ’s Winter 2024 issue." www.criterion.com/current/post... @caetlin.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
The cover of the Winter 2024 issue of Film Quarterly, featuring Justice Smith in Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Nominated for six @filmindependent.org #SpiritAwards, Jane Schoenbrun’s I SAW THE TV GLOW is featured on the cover of the new @filmquarterly.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...
05.12.2024 19:25 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
"Zryd is meticulous in his analysis of the work
of the filmmaker without ever succumbing to the
'great man' approach to art history."
@filmquarterly.bsky.social reviews HOLLIS FRAMPTON: NAVIGATING THE INFINITE, by Mike Zryd (@zryd.bsky.social). bit.ly/49mXhJg @columbiaup.bsky.social
