I very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,” October 2023), but I’m afraid he has made an error of fact about Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia. Rosen says the protagonist, Andrei Gorchakov, “swallows poison and then . . . . Continue Reading »
The best movie you’ll see this year—or, if I’m being honest, this decade—is about two men having a protracted argument about God. If you merely watch the trailer, you may walk away with the erroneous impression that Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus, is about the . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Nolan reminds us that cinema—not just consumable movies, but cinema as an art to be experienced in a particular way—is not entirely lost to nostalgia. Continue Reading »
In Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan has taken the meticulously researched seven-hundred-page book American Prometheus and rendered it into his best film yet. Continue Reading »
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