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David Hudson

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Mad Summers

We’re hunkering down with an oral history of Steven Spielberg and reading about Mary Harron, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Radu Jude, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Suddenly, Virginia Woolf

An adaptation of Night and Day follows two new reimaginings of Mrs. Dalloway.

By David Hudson

Steven Spielberg and Disclosure Day

Early reviews of his thirty-fifth feature may be all over the place, but appreciation of the man himself is universal.

By David Hudson

John Sayles in Toronto

The screenwriter, director, and novelist will take an active part in all ten screenings in a TIFF Cinematheque series.

By David Hudson

Stanley Kwan: Ladies Man

Asia Society presents a seven-film retrospective in New York from Thursday through Sunday.

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Shifting POVs

We’re wrapping the week with conversations with Lilly Wachowski, Shunji Iwai, and Tsui Hark as well as essays on Ozu and Ghatak.

By David Hudson

Louis Malle: Portraits of America

A series of films Malle made in the U.S. opens with an excellent documentary on the director’s life and work.

By David Hudson

Tribeca 2026: “AI Is Here”

This year’s lineup features lots of music, another De Niro and Scorsese reunion, and an AI-generated feature.

By David Hudson

Jean-Pierre Gorin in New York

Gorin will discuss films he’s selected as well as his own work and his collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard.

By David Hudson

Bleak Week, Year Five

The world’s most desolate film festival expands to nearly a hundred theaters in seventy-three cities.

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Slipping Free of the World

We’re revisiting work by Tarkovsky, Pelechian, and Portabella as well as two films with the word Dead in the title.

By David Hudson

Italian Cinema, Present and Past

Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà present two series back to back, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and History, Italian Style.

By David Hudson

Cannes Classics: Highlights

This year brought restorations of Ken Russell’s The Devils and docs on Vittorio De Sica, Chris Marker, David Lean, and Bruce Dern.

By David Hudson

Cannes 2026 Awards: Fjord, Minotaur, and More

Top prizes go to films by Cristian Mungiu, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Valeska Grisebach, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Los Javis.

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Better Parts

This week brings a look back at Cronenberg’s Crash and conversations with Boots Riley and Wallace Shawn.

By David Hudson

La Gradiva Tops the Critics’ Week Awards

The Cannes sidebar wraps with prizes for three stories about teenage girls and another about a determined adult woman.

By David Hudson

Hope and Fjord

There’s zero consensus when it comes to the latest films by Na Hong-jin and Cristian Mungiu.

By David Hudson

All of a Sudden and Paper Tiger

New films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and James Gray are riding high on the Cannes critics’ grids.

By David Hudson

Cannes: Three Critical Favorites

Critics are taking to Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, Radu Jude’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, and Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid.

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Corbaz, Critics, and Cannes

This week: Super 8 films by Teo Hernández, a new feature from Patrick Wang, and a revival of Aloïse (1975), starring Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig.

By David Hudson

Cannes Openers

Jane Schoenbrun’s third feature is met with raves, while three other early entries are seeing mixed reviews.

By David Hudson

Previewing Cannes 2026

Sorting through critics’ most-anticipated titles, catching up with interviews and profiles, and more.

By David Hudson

May Books

We begin with the Marilyn Monroe centenary and move on to thrillers and collections of poetry and critical essays.

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Out of Your World

Film Comment relaunches, Richard Kelly writes, Lynne Ramsay prepares, and in 1976, Roberto Rossellini talked.

By David Hudson