Caden Mark Gardner

Dec 10, 2024 | nashvillescene.com | Odie Henderson |Jonathan Dehaan |Kimberley Elizabeth |Caden Mark Gardner

Call it a gift guide and a salute to excellence — as well as a lament that it’s so hard to shop for new Blu-rays and 4Ks in person in the city anymore — but these are among the best releases of 2024 and worthy of your attention. The format of the release is listed next to each film’s title.

May 9, 2024 | repeaterbooks.com | Caden Mark Gardner |Willow Maclay

In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on-screen.

Jul 31, 2023 | filmcomment.com | Caden Mark Gardner

This article appeared in the July 20, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Every year since 1954, the Flaherty Film Seminar, named after the influential American documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, has brought together directors, educators, programmers, critics, and students from around the world to watch and discuss a varied program of experimental films organized around a unifying theme.

Jul 10, 2023 | criterion.com | Andrew Chan |Caden Mark Gardner

It is often assumed that representations of queer, gender-nonconforming people are rare in film history, especially in the years before the LGBTQ rights movement began in the West in the late 1960s. But in their Criterion Channel series Masc, writer-archivist-filmmaker Jenni Olson and critic Caden Mark Gardner have constructed a counterhistory that challenges this narrative of silence and neglect.

Jun 10, 2023 | brightwalldarkroom.com | Caden Mark Gardner

Desperate Living arguably gets the least amount of play as a peak John Waters film, perhaps due to the fact that Waters’s closest collaborator and muse, Divine (the scare queen drag persona of Harris Glenn Milstead), wasn’t involved in the production.