Last week, Congress came together in overwhelming bipartisan unity and harmony to approve a record-breaking $858 billion military spending bill with virtually no public debate – even though just last month the Pentagon failed its fifth audit in a row after being...
Of course it is a joy that Chantal Akerman's “Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975) has been chosen as the best film ever by the 1,639 critics, programmers, archivists, and academics who answered this year's survey. The British magazine Sight and...
The Edge just published Dale Hudson’s fantastic piece “The World Is Burning — Whatever Tops the BFI’s ‘Best Films of All Time’ Won’t Help.” I’d like to stir some other ideas into this debate. Hudson’s piece hits on some key issues in the world of film culture: lists...
"In any case, it is difficult to disprove the thesis that we have not yet succeeded in bringing the horrors of the air war to public attention through historical or literary accounts." — W. G. Sebald, "On the Natural History of Destruction" (1999), chapter 3 ...
The Edge has leapt into the debates ignited by the December 1 publication of the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 list currently crackling across social media. We’re not just publishing rebuttals to the list. We are also publishing the nominations of...
Identifying the “Greatest Films of All Time” requires reconsideration in 2022, for at least two reasons. We now have knowledge of and access to many types of films not readily available before…
The British Film Institute (BFI) just released its Best Films of All Time poll for 2022 to much fanfare and self-congratulation among liberal whites. I can almost sense them patting each other on the back — or exchanging poorly executed high fives — for a job well...
The recent emergence of what has come to be called the video essay or the videographic essay or the audiovisual essay represents a new cinematic avant-garde. It offers implicit and explicit critiques of both commercial media and the logocentric literature of academic...
Brian electrified us with his commitment to the politics and ethics of documentary and journalism, his mission to rewire academia as a place to galvanize hearts and minds, his interrogation of everything written or filmed or said and his insistence that solidarities matter more than anything else.
The concept of normality, favored by so many executives and administrators, is like a mantra attempting to stave off the grieving for the end of our lives as we lived them in 2019.
