David Hudson

Featured this week are Frank Capra, Michael Roemer, John Ford, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Long considered lost, Fujisawa’s Bye Bye Love screens at Metrograph with two Teshigahara classics.

Edward Berger’s improbably entertaining follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) scores twelve.

There’s a Delphine Seyrig retrospective on in New York and another will open at the Harvard Film Archive on Friday.

Toronto’s retrospective showcases an oeuvre that ranges from Fists in the Pocket (1965) to Kidnapped (2023).

This week: Eisenstein’s diaries, Godard’s artworks, Mike Leigh’s characters, and Sidney Poitier’s late work.

MoMA’s festival of film preservation spotlights films from around the world, ranging from the silent era through the 1980s.

We’re looking forward to new work from Richard Linklater, Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Reichardt, Christian Petzold, Chloé Zhao, Sebastián Lelio, and many other filmmakers.

Retrospectives showcasing new restorations are on in Chicago and Los Angeles, and another is heading to New York.

Sunday night’s big winners include The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, and Flow.

We spent the holidays reading about Claude Sautet, Pascal Plante, and Christian Marclay.

Along with conversations with Jem Cohen and Johnnie To, the week brings fresh angles on the year that was.

One of history’s darkest chapters becomes a deeply personal experience in this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.

The bulk of this year’s selections comes from a three-decade stretch from the early 1970s to the late ’90s.

Sundance, Rotterdam, and Berlin roll out more lineups for what promises to be a season of uncertainty.

News, reviews, and recommendations featuring Paul Schrader, Cher, Terrence Malick, and more.

The week’s offered fine writing on Elaine May, Robert Siodmak and Ella Raines, and Christopher Nolan’s turning-point movie.

The festival will kick off the new year with political quandaries and plenty of great music.

Sean Baker’s eighth feature has been picking up awards and nominations and landing on several best-of-2024 lists.

The Locarno Film Festival is making a new restoration of Alberto Cavalcanti’s A Real Woman freely available worldwide.

The festival is making more than seventy films and artworks freely accessible worldwide through December 30.

One of the year’s most divisive films has swept up five European Film Awards and leads the nominations for the Golden Globes.

Richard Linklater and James Benning revisit Godard’s Breathless and Wim Wenders looks back on Paris, Texas.

Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow scores six Spirit Awards nominations and is the cover story in the new Film Quarterly.