movies Archives - The American Scholar

Glimpses of Home

By Nathalie Lagerfeld | 09/05/2017 |

Intimate films from two late Chicago directors

Celebrity Profiles

By Phillip Lopate | 04/14/2017 |

Why I gave them up

Liking La La Land and Jackie

By Phillip Lopate | 01/20/2017 |

The perversity of appreciation

The Lightness of Errol Flynn

By Brian Doyle | 12/05/2016 |

In praise of the irresistible swashbuckler

“First on This Planet”

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | 11/09/2016 |

Narrative Control

By Diana Goetsch | 04/06/2016 |

Our groundbreaking year suddenly doesn’t look so groundbreaking

Feast Your Eyes on This

By Sandra M. Gilbert | 12/10/2014 |

What does the flurry for recent food movies say about our obsessions with all things culinary?

Realism With a Heart

By Richard Locke | 03/11/2014 |

The Dardenne brothers bring an idiosyncratic sympathy to their portrayals of Belgian lowlifes

This Is a Column

By Michael Dirda | 03/16/2012 |

Settling Accounts

By William Deresiewicz | 01/22/2012 |