Jonathan Mackris

Jonathan Mackris is a writer and translator based in California. He has written for Film Comment, the MUBI Notebook, Senses of Cinema, and Screen Slate, among others. He is currently a PhD candidate in the film department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Godard’s Posthumous Films

Jonathan Mackris, 2025
ARTICLE
23.04.2025
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What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two decades of his life. There is a want to see these films as Godard’s testament, a personal statement on the fact of his impending death. Instead, one might take them for what they are, fragments of a future “that will never exist,” but which nonetheless point us in a different direction. Insofar as the problems to which Godard dedicated his life, artistically and politically, remain unresolved, they remain for us both the most pressing and the most generative.

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2023

Gerard-Jan Claes, Steven Jacobs, Jonathan Mackris, 2023
ARTICLE
22.11.2023
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Drie bezoekers van Il Cinema Ritrovato bespreken drie films die ze dit jaar op het festival zagen en die hen bijbleven.

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2023

Gerard-Jan Claes, Steven Jacobs, Jonathan Mackris, 2023
ARTICLE
22.11.2023
NL EN

Three Il Cinema Ritrovato visitors discuss three films that they saw at this year’s festival and which stayed in their memories.