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A RECENT COVER STORY IN HARPER'S asked the question 'What Happened to Gen X?' Written by the Canadian-American philosophy professor Justin E. H. Smith, the piece opens with memories of [...]

OF THE GROUP OF AMERICAN FILMMAKERS known as the 'Film School Generation' (Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.), Paul Schrader is perhaps the hardest to get a [...]

We feel it is important to identify research areas that are understudied. Certainly, the impact of economic development on or near Indigenous lands is one such area.In this issue, we have three feature articles that approach the issue of economic development in terms of policies, impacts, and benefits.What is clear is that we need a much better understanding of the benefits and perils that come with development. We also need better cooperation between governments, corporations, and Indigenous communities in order to develop effective legislation and fair land use and resource agreements.IIPJ wishes to encourage those who have studied development issues to submit their work. We will shortly be announcing our intent to create an international database of quality research across a wide range of important subjects. The purpose will be to create an ever expanding, open-access source of research. This database may also contain examples of agreements and rigorous assessments of the projects in order to advance our understanding of the challenges that come with economic development.

THE HOOPLA SURROUNDING TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) is much like the hoopla that surrounded the remake of Ghostbusters (2016), which was the subject of my chronicle in the summer 2016 [...]

AS 2022 BEGINS, it seems that travel has returned, and so perhaps has cinema. For me, these two have always been intertwined. From my teenage days in the 1980s, when [...]

STEVE MCQUEEN'S SMALL AXE (2020) is commonly described as an 'anthology,' as it is a collection of five films that are all directed and cowritten by McQueen, that are all [...]

ABOUT 70 MINUTES INTO DAVID BYRNE'S NEW CONCERT FILM, American Utopia (2020), he explains the minimalist layout of his show by speculating about absence: 'What if we could eliminate everything [...]

WESTERN EUROPE IS LIVING THROUGH SOMETHING of a Simone Weil moment just now. All over the continent, and certainly in Weil's native France, there is a sense that people are [...]

MY NEW HOME OF SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN has one seven-day-a-week arthouse cinema, which is one more than my previous home of Halifax, Nova Scotia. That cinema, the Roxy, is about to [...]

FOR REASONS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD, and now presumably to Stan Lee as well, 12 AMC theatres (including one in Canada) took two days in April to stage a marathon [...]

WHEN FILM DIED, IT DIED FAST. That's what I tell my students as spring comes and we near the end of the second half of my film history course. Within [...]

'My father's notions about the philosophy of Marxism were very primitive. Occasionally on Sundays, when there was a rotogravure section, he would buy the Jewish Daily Forward and read with [...]

FALL IS FILM FESTIVAL SEASON in Canada. This is signalled most splashily by the annual unspooling of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which begins right after Telluride and right [...]

I'VE NEVER SEEN A TEMPEST in a teapot quite like the recent pop culture uproar over the remake of Ghostbusters. The New Yorker's Anthony Lane remarked how strange it has [...]

IT HAS, OVER THE COURSE of the last six months or so, been impossible to ignore not only the new Star Wars movie, but the re-emergence of the Star Wars [...]

'WHAT LOVING THEM COSTS': A REVIEW OF NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT (DIR. ISABEL COIXET, 2015) AND WE COME AS FRIENDS (DIR. HUBERT SAUPER, 2015) CINEMA HAS BEEN GLOBALISED since its [...]