Issue 09: This Aesthetic Experience Has Been Sponsored by the Luxury Industry
A couple of weeks ago, 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen's latest project debuted online. It's not the TV series he was at one point attached to at HBO...
Let's learn about Chinese history through film! (and more)
A few weeks ago I saw the avant-garde Chinese movie to end all avant-garde Chinese movies. A few days after that, by some happy accident I happened to watch...
Issue 07: Making the grade—or not
Letterboxd, the site I use to keep track of what movies I've seen and where across the web I've had reviews published, released a mobile app at long last....
Issue 06: International Directors A–Z
It's Friday night and your dinner plans have suddenly been cancelled because your friends got last-minute tickets to the opera (thanks, Millennials). You're...
Issue 05: Another Year, Another Oscars
We did it, everyone! We survived another awards season chock-full of craziness and controversy! Don't look now, but people are already spitballing their 2017...
Issue 04: Survey time! Everyone's a critic—including you; who will be the next Miyazaki?
I spent this weekend reading A.O. Scott's Better Living Through Criticism, the thinkpiece-generating book of the moment. Scott is one of the chief critics...
Issue 03: Sundancepalooza, Honoring Jacques Rivette, #OscarsSoWhite
January is the month of new beginnings and, more importantly, the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance is always the first in line of the high-profile festivals...
Issue 02: Thoughts on Oscar Nominations, A New Japanese Film Has Me Jazzed, and More
Another year, another Oscars. The lead-up to the grand unveiling of the year's anointed “best” is always more exciting than the interstitial month before the...
Issue 01: 5 Movies You Missed, 5 to Watch, 5 to Keep an Eye on
Welcome to the first issue of Movie Enthusiast, where Tim enthuses about film! Every issue will follow a slightly different format depending on what's...