The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the mass inequalities experienced in late-stage capitalism. This recent rediscovery of the sociological shifts enabled by disease makes Diseased Cinema an appropriately t...

The films of Yasujirō Ozu have been so universally acclaimed that it may seem as though his work is beyond criticism, as though we have collectively agreed not only on his status as a singular directo...

Issue 28 - This Alphaville issue brings together contributions that probe innovative approaches and methods of decolonising knowledge in screen cultures. Beginning with the question of what and whose ...

Silent film biographer and researcher Donna Hill, 64, died in her San Francisco apartment on Dec. 30. Donna helped me with just about all of my books, supplying contacts, facts, and great gossip. In 2010 she wrote the gorgeous coffee-table book Rudolph Valentino the Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs, and at the time of her death was working on a Dorothy Gish bio. One online “virtual friend” wrote that Donna was “a kind, thoughtful, unfailingly generous friend, and a helpful and supportive sch

Charles Burnett's lost comedy 'The Annihilation of Fish' has a 4K release.

ALT: a drawing of a girl standing in front of the number 28 by minka comics.com