Our winter 2024, “Green Screen,” explores representations of nature in film—the ways, for better and worse, that we portray the natural world onscreen, and how these portrayals shape the way we look ...

What the film industry can do to aim for a greener future.

AT ONE POINT, between June and August 2019, Las Vegas had been so thoroughly inundated by a swarm of grasshoppers, an estimated thirty metric tons’ worth, that hotel employees on Fremont Street used ...

"The light across the county is flat as a cow’s milk-dead eye." ...

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I THINK OFTEN OF an image by the artist David Wojnarowicz that I saw in a gallery years ago: a small, black-and-white photo of a swamp, the lights and darks reversed like a film negative. In the upper ...

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THIS PAST FALL, DreamWorks Animation released The Wild Robot, an animated feature film adapted from Peter Brown’s bestselling young adult book series. It follows a robot named Rozzum 7134 shipwrecked ...

YOU FEEL LIKE A star yourself strolling in beneath that iconic marquee, settling into an overstuffed velvet seat. But let’s face it: what sets the cinema apart from streaming a film on your laptop is ...

LET US BEGIN WITH the eye of a bird. Hitchcock’s The Birds contains a famous shot where we shift from the human perspective to that of the murderous fowls. On the ground, the birds attack a gas ...