Jordan Riefe

Jordan Riefe has been covering the film business since the late ’90s for outlets like Reuters, THR.com, and the Wrap, and he wrote a movie that was produced in China in 2007. He currently serves as West Coast theatre critic for the Hollywood Reporter, while also covering fine arts for Truthdig.com, LA Weekly, and OC Register.

“Rites de Eon,” a ca. 1790s manuscript
A Hollywood Filmmaker’s Beguiling and Inspiring Collection
It began with Begotten, filmmaker E. Elias Merhige’s 1989 black-and-white allegory about death and transformation.
Griffin, from the pages of Liber Floridus.
Lionizing the Bestiary
Bestiaries, allegorical texts with pages of illuminated animals—some real, like the lion, some mythical, like the griffin—were the bestsellers of their day. Until now, there has been no more…