Alexander Stern

Conceiving of our deepest selves in terms of neuroses and traumas sends us continually back on ourselves in a way that may reproduce rather than redress our anguish.

Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Fallen Leaves’ displays the director's wry humor, spare style, and focus on social inequality.

Striking autoworkers resist an economy designed to make the rich richer no matter the cost.

Technocratic neoliberalism is not the rightful heir of the liberal tradition, but an anti-democratic distortion of it.

Celine Song’s debut film, ‘Past Lives,’ suggests that a past can take on dimensions more profound precisely because it is left behind.

Cyril Schäublin’s latest film—capturing the efforts of 19th-century anarchist watchmakers—dramatizes resistance to tech-reliant, capitalist control.