March Books
It’s an eclectic bunch this month, featuring a new play, a ban on the color green, and Godzilla.
Living Memories
Brussels celebrates Chantal Akerman, Hirokazu Kore-eda remembers Ryuichi Sakamoto, and there are some intriguing projects in the works.
SXSW: Awards, Star Power, and Controversy
A bittersweet comedy and a documentary about a Shakespeare production in a virtual world take the top prizes.
BFI Flare Lights Up London
This year’s edition opens with Amrou Al-Kadhi’s Layla, and Elliot Page will be on hand to talk about Close to You.
First Look 2024
The thirteenth edition offers twenty features, new short films by Kevin Jerome Everson and Nathaniel Dorsky, workshops and more.
Oppenheimer’s Big Night
After scoring eight nominations over more than twenty years, Christopher Nolan is finally taking home a couple of Oscars.
A Weekend with the Oscars
This week calls for notes on some of the best writing on each of the ten nominees for Best Picture.
Previewing SXSW 2024
The Austin festival presents action-heavy Headliners, creepy Midnighters, and promising Competition contenders.
Summer Strands in Bologna
Marlene Dietrich, Pietro Germi, Anatole Litvak: Il Cinema Ritrovato previews nine main programs.
Tricia Romano’s History of the Village Voice
The reviews are strong, and one excerpt focuses on the influential film pages.
Remembering David Bordwell
Friends and admirers pay tribute to his rigorous scholarship, his boundless enthusiasm, and his warm generosity.
Early Hou, and Ceylan, Too
This week offers David Bordwell on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s evolution, Jean Eustache on Ernst Lubitsch, and two must-read reviews of About Dry Grasses.
Japanese Horror in New York
Film Forum presents two-week series featuring two dozen films, many of them screening from rare 35 mm prints.
True/False Spotlights Girls State
Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss will be in the Show Me State to discuss their companion film to the prizewinning Boys State.
Cinema Revival 2024
The festival will host the world premiere of the new restoration of Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish (1999).
Mati Diop Wins the Golden Bear
The Berlinale’s top award went to Dahomey on an evening that has sparked heated debate.
Undone and Remade
Revivals of work by Raoul Peck and Jean-Pierre Bekolo and conversations with James Gray and Jodie Foster are among this week’s highlights.
Sean Price Williams’s 1000 Movies
The great cinematographer’s list of inspirations has been circulating among friends for two decades, and now, it’s a book.
Two with Isabelle Huppert
Huppert takes the lead in Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs and André Téchiné’s My New Friends.
Mati Diop’s Dahomey
Dense with conflicting ideas, the hybrid film focuses on the 2021 return of centuries-old artifacts to Africa.
Landscapes Urban and Pastoral
This week brings fresh writing on Edward Yang and David Cronenberg, a talk with Wim Wenders, and a bundle of lists.
Japanese Family in Flux
Ten Japanese family portraits will screen in New York over the next ten days.
February Books
Portraits of Stanley Kubrick and Agnès Varda, a memoir from Ed Zwick, and a history of Blaxploitation are among the highlights.
The Independent Spirit of Robert M. Young
Bob Young worked with Michael Roemer on Nothing but a Man and directed ¡Alambrista! and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.