The Cinephiliacs

Desperate for bodies in motion, five quarantined cinephiles joined Peter and a number of podcast listeners on Zoom to ta... Read more

One year into The Cinephiliacs, Peter brings in a critic that he's read for almost a decade now: A.O. Scott of the New Y... Read more

Before film criticism and cinephilia moved from print and theaters to the screen and discussion boards, Mike D'Angelo wa... Read more

Truffaut remarked there was cinema before Godard and cinema after Godard. The academic discipline of Film Studies could ... Read more

In times of crisis, sometimes the easy answer is to escape to the cinema. But the movies of 2016 did not necessarily bri... Read more

Peter doesn't listen to many other film podcasts, but one of his joys this year has been the transporting mysteries of Y... Read more

What is the "work" of film criticism? That question takes center stage in a lively new episode of the podcast, in which ... Read more

May 16th, 1955—60 years ago before this recording—James Agee died of a heart attack in the back of a New York taxi at th... Read more

In 2011, a young cinephile named Ignatiy Vishnevetsky became the poster boy for new cinephilia during the return of Roge... Read more

What does it mean to view a stereoscopic image, to see films in a way that's at once closer to our daily life perception... Read more

Jonathan Demme began his film career 50 years ago while working for Joseph Levine's production company in 1967, carving ... Read more

A love of cinema does not necessitate a love of a total work. Often it is a moment—a person, a camera movement, a lighti... Read more

Abbas Kiarostami, born in 1940 in Tehran, turned to filmmaking in 1970 when he helped set up the Institute for Intellect... Read more

Nothing is more frustrating in our streaming era than turning on any specific app and suddenly staring hundreds of mov... Read more

If there is one thing that has defined the New York Film Festival since its first year in 1963, the festival has always ... Read more

As a constant Instagram user, I find it hard not to love the numerous videos of mammals and other species in behavior ... Read more

Since debuting in the fairgrounds during the Fin de siècle of the late 19th century, movies have never been inseparable... Read more

While his origins as a cinephile are based largely in his interest in the avant-garde, J. Hoberman has become one of the... Read more

While it can be fun to talk to critics who spend their time keeping up with contemporary cinema, Peter is glad to bring ... Read more

Sam Adams may not be in the center of the criticism landscape from his home in Philadelphia, but his presence at the edi... Read more