Criticism — Adam Cook

2023

Tsai Ming-liang: A Cinema of Bodily Sense (Video Essay) - [in]Transition 10.2, 2023

2022

Eerie Totality in Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama - Offscreen Volume 26, Issue 9-10-11 / November 2022

Published at Long Voyage Home:

The Best Films of 2021
Frontiers: Richard Linklater's "Everybody Wants Some!!"
The Opposite of Performance: Betsey Brown on "Actors"
Blessings: An Interview with Tsai Ming-liang

2021

РАЗОБЛАЧЕННАЯ КАНАДА.  «Двадцатый век», режиссер Мэттью Ранкин (Canada Uncovered: “The Twentieth Century” directed by Matthew Rankin) - Iskusstvo Kino (translated in Russian)
Book Review: “German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism” by Hester Bear - EuropeNow

Published at Long Voyage Home:

Backwards and Forwards: James Wan's "Malignant"
Antifragility: C.W. Winter on "The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)"
Fear of Love: Leos Carax's "Annette"
Movement of World in "Mauvais Sang" and "Holy Motors" (video + text)
Heal All Wounds: M. Night Shyamalan's "Old"
2 x Two Lovers (video essay)
The World Moves for Love: The Cinema of M. Night Shyamalan
The Sense Beyond the Canvas (video essay)
The 10 Best Non-Fiction Films of the 2010s
The Cinematic: Deceptively Simple Staging in "Going My Way"
The Interval Pt. 2: Towards an affective film criticism
The Interval (video essay)
Fascistic-Fetishistic-Cinematic-Cannibalism: Revisiting "Kill Bill"
Multiplicity: Emmanuel Mouret's "Love Affair(s)"
Back Into the Flux in "Heat"
Red-Pilled: Dasha Nekrasova on "The Scary of Sixty-First"
Degrees of Coincidence: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi on "Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy"
Stranger Things: Ramon & Silvan Zürcher on "The Girl and the Spider"
The Irresolvable Heart of "Gertrud"
Why We Fight: Paul W.S. Anderson's "Monster Hunter"
Lonely Bodies: Tsai Ming-liang's "Days"
"From" "Sundance" with "Love"
Blind Spots: Theo Anthony's "All Light, Everywhere"
Beyond Words: Steven Soderbergh's "Let Them All Talk"
The 100 Best Films of the Decade (2010-19)
The Best Films of 2020

2020

Published at Long Voyage Home unless otherwise noted:

Print the Legend: Fincher & Fincher's "Mank"
Disappointment in "Comrades: Almost a Love Story"
Small Mysteries: Hong Sang-soo's "The Woman Who Ran"
Mischievous Myth-making in Matthew Rankin's "The Twentieth Century"
Borat Takes on Trump's America in his "Subsequent Moviefilm"
"Sportin' Life" and the Documentary Spirit of Abel Ferrara
Being Human: Lav Diaz on "Genus, Pan"

2019

Review: Into the Black — James Gray’s “Ad Astra” - MUBI Notebook
Review: Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, South Korea) - Cinema Scope #79
Review: Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, US) - Sight & Sound (July 2019 Issue)
Through the Looking Glass: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Your Face - Cinema Scope
Review: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (Ben Wheatley, UK) - Cinema Scope #78 (print only)
The New Canadian Cinema - Canadian Film Day
“We Make the Films We Can Make, Not the Ones We Want to Make”: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Qumra Masterclass - Filmmaker Magazine
“Giving Yourself Time to Sculpt”: Pawel Pawlikowski’s Qumra Masterclass - Filmmaker Magazine
What’s Out of Frame: Kazik Radwanski’s Scaffold and Ricky D’Ambrose’s Notes on an Appearance - Cinema Scope
In The Seven Last Words, some of Quebec’s best filmmakers interpret the music of Haydn - The Globe and Mail (Print + Online for subscribers)
Chill, Netflix: Toronto’s independent theatres are enjoying a moviegoing renaissance - The Globe and Mail (Print + Online for subscribers)
Interview with Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell, Berlinale Forum
The 10 Best Films from Rotterdam 2019 - Indiewire
James Gray: The Ties That Bind - TIFF Review

2018

Greetings From Free Lisboa - MUBI Notebook
Nowhere Fast: Winston DeGiobbi on “Mass for Shut-Ins” - MUBI Notebook
Interview: Andrea Bussmann on Fausto (with Josh Cabrita) – Issue 76
Review: Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” - MUBI Notebook
Review: Steven Soderbergh’s “Unsane” - MUBI Notebook
Cycles of Dependency: An Interview with Ashley McKenzie - MUBI Notebook
Game Theory: Corneliu Porumboiu’s Infinite Football - Cinema Scope
Filmmaker Blake Williams Wants to Change the Way People look at 3D - The Globe and Mail
Connor Jessup on His Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Profound Impact of His Films - The Film Stage
Dreams of Cinema with Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Qumra - Filmmaker Magazine
“I Went Through Two Marriages But I Still Have the Same Editor”: Gianfranco Rosi’s Qumra Masterclass - Filmmaker Magazine
“Think of Me as a Glorified Member of the Art Department”: Tilda Swinton’s Qumra Masterclass - Filmmaker Magazine
Berlinale 2018: Season of the Bear — Cinema Scope Issue #74 (Print Only)
Shadows of Sarajevo: An Interview with André Gil Mata - MUBI Notebook
It’s Time to Take a Serious Look at Michael Stuhlbarg - The New York Times

2017

In the Shadow of the Magic Kingdom: Sean Baker on The Florida Project – Cinema Scope Issue #73 (Print Only)
A Poet of Spatiality and Structure: Curator Shelly Kraicer on Johnnie To - MUBI Notebook
The Cult (Gems) of Demme - TIFF Review
Handcuffed: On From to Nine with Neil Bahadur - Kinoscope
'The Sweet Hereafter': Looking back at one of Canada's most celebrated films, 20 years later - CBC
Scorsese’s faith-based movies are less appreciated than his crime classics - The Globe and Mail
NOVA SCOTIA RISING: THE PROGRAMMER INITIATIVE AND EAST COAST TALENT AT HIFF - TFCA
Tragedy & Transcendence: James Gray on The Lost City of Z - Fandor
“Going Back There and Doing All That Again” - TIFF Review
This Must Be the Place: Big Ears Festival - Fandor
Looking for Variables: An Interview with Kazik Radwanski - Kinoscope
Under the Radar: The 31st Mar del Plata Film Festival - Filmmaker Magazine
Everything Passes: An Interview with Lina Rodriguez - Kinoscope
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Interview - Fandor
Glimpsing Cinema’s Northern Lights at Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival - The New York Times

2016

2015

Seven Gestures, 2015 - Fandor
Review: Joy - Little White Lies
Grief and catharsis in JJ Abrams’ Super 8 - Little White Lies
Mirror, Mirror: Birkin by Varda by Birkin - Fandor
Cinema on the Edge’s World Vision - Fandor
Review: The Visit (M. Night Shayamalan, US) - Cinema Scope Issue #65 (Print only)
How Women Executives and Producers are Changing the Status Quo - Indiewire
25 Years Later, Charles Burnett and Richard Brooks Reflect on Indie Classic ‘To Sleep with Anger’ - Indiewire
The Chicago Philanthropist Behind Some of Your Favorite Indies - Indiewire
Sony Pictures Classics’ Michael Barker on Changing Audiences, Working with Auteurs and the Future of Indie Film - Indiewire
The haunting beauty of Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea - Little White Lies
Vengeance and violence in Steven Spielberg’s Munich - Little White Lies
Here Are the Best Film Restorations of the Year - Indiewire
VIDEO: Van Gogh in Cinema - Fandor
Review: Every Thing Will Be Fine (Wim Wenders, Germany/ Canada/ France/ Sweden/ Norway) - Cinema Scope
Review: Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones, France/US) - Cinema Scope
Review: Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (Jafar Panahi, Iran) - Cinema Scope
Counting Echoes with Jem Cohen - Fandor
Kent Jones on “Hitchcock/Truffaut” - Fandor
Kickstarting Abel Ferrara’s “Siberia” - Fandor
Cult Following: Nathan Silver on “Stinking Heaven” - Fandor
Tangerine and the Cinema of Sean Baker - Fandor
Interview: ‘Eden’ Brilliantly Captures the Highs and Lows of the DJ Lifestyle in 90s Paris - VICE
A Love Story Without Love: Hou Hsiao-hsien Discusses “The Assassin” - MUBI Notebook
Jeanne Dielman, Action Movie (video essay) - Indiewire
The Tribe takes a bleak look at humanity - The Georgia Straight
Flex Thighs and Videotape: Magic Mike XXL - The L Mag
Epic Gangs of Wasseypur is a Bollywood Godfather - The Georgia Straight
Magic Mike XXL's Matt Bomer on that whole getting naked thing - The Georgia Straight
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch recalls cinema’s earliest laughs - The Georgia Straight
Interview: Corneliu Porumboiu on The Treasure - Cinema Scope #63 (Print only)
The Most Ambitious Movie At This Year’s Cannes Film Festival is ‘Arabian Nights’ - Indiewire
Why Does the Cannes Film Festival Keep Programming Naomi Kawase’s Movies? - Indiewire
DOXA Documentary Film Festival doubles down with French French series - The Georgia Straight
Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik visits Simon Fraser University - The Georgia Straight
Circumnavigating Cinema: Kidlat Tahimik’s Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III - Cinema Scope #62
3D in the 21st Century. For the Love of Movies: “Hugo” - MUBI Notebook
Scenes From a Friendship: A Conversation with Alex Ross Perry - MUBI Notebook
Dialogues: Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2015. Correspondences #1-12 with Daniel Kasman - MUBI Notebook
Long Voyage Home: “Blackhat” & Revolutions of the Digital Image - MUBI Notebook

2014

Review: Dumb and Dumber To (The Farrelly Brothers, USA) — Cinema Scope #61 (Print only)
TIFF 2014. Dialogues: Johnnie To’s “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2” - MUBI Notebook
Melody Unwinding: A Conversation with Soon-Mi Yoo about “Songs From the North” - MUBI Notebook
Locarno 2014. Impressions Part III: Abstractions - MUBI Notebook
Locarno 2014. Impressions Part II: Trapped - MUBI Notebook
Locarno 2014. Impressions Part I: People as Places as People - MUBI Notebook
Long Voyage Home: Apes of Wrath - MUBI Notebook
Video: Long Voyage Home: “and / &” - MUBI Notebook
Dialogues: Talking Robots; or Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Age of Extinction” - MUBI Notebook
Long Voyage Home: On “Louie” Season 4 - MUBI Notebook
Review: Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, USA/France) — Cinema Scope #59 (Print only)
Review: Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson, Germany/Canada) — Cinema Scope #58 (Print only)
Berlinale 2014 - Filmmaker Magazine (Print only)
Berlinale 2014. New Spaces: A Conversation with Denis Lavant - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2014. Impressions Part IV: On the Periphery - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2014. Impressions Part III: Time as Depth & Cinema-Space - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2014. Impressions Part II: Journeys - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2014. Impressions Part I: Personal Programming - MUBI Notebook

2013

Migrating Forms 2013. To Times Two - MUBI Notebook
DVD/Blu-Ray Review: Charulata & The Big City – Film Comment Nov/Dec ‘13 (Print)
Decline of the American Empire: Judd Apatow’s This is 40 — La Furia Umana #2 (Print)
Fake Empire: Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street - Cinema Scope
Book Review: Two Bicycles — Cineaste Winter 2013 (Print)
Review: Rhymes For Young Ghouls (Jeff Barnaby, Canada) — Cinema Scope #57 (Print only)
Points of Renewal: On “La última película” with Raya Martin, Mark Peranson, & Kurt Walker - MUBI Notebook
Love & Sincerity: A Conversation with James Gray - MUBI Notebook
TIFF 2013. Impressions/Correspondences: Coda (Alone, Together) - MUBI Notebook
TIFF 2013. Impressions Part II: Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises” - MUBI Notebook
TIFF 2013. Impressions: Part I - MUBI Notebook
The King’s Body (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal) - Cinema Scope
Mary, Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach, Switzerland/France) - Cinema Scope
Homeland Insecurity: Kathleen Shannon’s Working Mothers - cléo
Pour la Beauté du Geste: Holy Motors — La Furia Umana #1 (Print)
Book Review: Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the NFB — Cineaste Summer 2013 (Print)
Locarno 2013. Limits of Control: Corneliu Porumboiu’s “When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism” - MUBI Notebook
Locarno 2013. Temporary Autonomous Zones: A Conversation with Ben Rivers & Ben Russell - MUBI Notebook
Locarno 2013. Anti-Hip: Destin Cretton’s “Short Term 12” - MUBI Notebook
Locarno 2013. Moving Still: Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez’s “Manakamana” - MUBI Notebook
Locarno 2013. Lifeforces: A Conversation with Abel Ferrara - MUBI Notebook
Locarno 2013. Unsentimental Humanism: Werner Herzog’s “On Death Row II” - MUBI Notebook
Review: The Immigrant (James Gray, USA) — Cinema Scope #55 (Print only)
The Past Isn’t Past: A Conversation with Arnaud Desplechin - Fandor
Cannes 2013. Dialogues: Johnnie To’s “Blind Detective” - MUBI Notebook
Steven Soderbergh’s “Behind the Candelabra” - MUBI Notebook
Cannes 2013. Dialogues: James Gray’s “The Immigrant” - MUBI Notebook
Cannes 2013. Illusory Isolation: Alain Guiraudie’s “Stranger by the Lake” - MUBI Notebook
Cannes 2013. Passing Shots: Satyajit Ray, Joel & Ethan Coen, Alex van Warmerdam - MUBI Notebook
Cannes 2013. Hollow Cinema: Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Only God Forgives” - MUBI Notebook
Cannes 2013. Running the Gauntlet: An Interview with Takashi Miike - MUBI Notebook
Cannes 2013. Camera Eye(s): Jean-Luc Godard’s “Les trois désastres” - MUBI Notebook
Echoes #14 - MUBI Notebook
Echoes #13 - MUBI Notebook
R.I.P. Roger Ebert (1942-2013) - MUBI Notebook
Riviera Maya Film Festival 2013 - Fandor
Marty’s World: An Inside Look at the Scorsese Exhibition in Berlin - Indiewire
Forced Exchange: Nicolás Pereda and Jacob Schulsinger on Killing Strangers - Cinema Scope
Berlinale 2013 - Filmmaker Magazine (Print only)
Berlinale 2013. Impressions: B-Sides - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2013. Impressions #5 - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2013. Impressions #4 - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2013. Impressions #3 - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2013. Impressions #2 - MUBI Notebook
Berlinale 2013. Impressions #1 - MUBI Notebook
Five Questions with Rashida Jones - Filmmaker Magazine
One Day When the Rain Falls: All in the Family - De Film Krant

2012