Christopher Schobert

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Paul Thomas Anderson’s America, The Dirty Dozen, Giallo, Surveying the African American Western & More

Who needs summer blockbusters when there are so many gripping new and recent books related to the world of cinema? This column includes books highlighting crea...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Revisiting Lost Highway, Watching John Ford, and a Guide to Queer Cinema

Our latest roundup of new books related to the world of cinema is full of indelible imagery––the pale face of Lost Highway’s Mystery Man, John Ford’s craggy vi...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: James Bond, Colors of Film, Sofia Coppola, Japanese Animation & More

For our latest dive into recent books on or related to cinema, we’re spending time with some icons––fictional (James Bond) and non (Sofia Coppola, Sean Connery...

SXSW Review: Satan Wants You is a Mostly Compelling Dive into the Nonsense of “Satanic Panic”

One of the experts interviewed in Satan Wants You, a disturbingly compelling documentary making its world premiere at SXSW, points out that, today, the 1980s c...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Bong Joon Ho, Avatar: The Way of Water, Alfred Hitchcock & More

Spring is on the horizon (yay!) but we’re still deep into winter (grr). And that means time for reading. Our latest roundup of noteworthy new books connected t...

Sundance Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything Remarkably Examines a Trailblazing Musician

Little Richard: I Am Everything is positively bursting with unforgettable anecdotes, so much so that choosing one standout is virtually impossible. So perhaps ...

Sundance Review: Scrapper is a Remarkably Assured Debut

It feels serendipitous that Scrapper, a somber slice-of-life British melodrama, screened at the Sundance Film Festival just days after hysterical reporting on ...