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.
Suddenly, Virginia Woolf
An adaptation of Night and Day follows two new reimaginings of Mrs. Dalloway.
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.
John Sayles in Toronto
The screenwriter, director, and novelist will take an active part in all ten screenings in a TIFF Cinematheque series.
Stanley Kwan: Ladies Man
Asia Society presents a seven-film retrospective in New York from Thursday through Sunday.
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.
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.
Tribeca 2026: “AI Is Here”
This year’s lineup features lots of music, another De Niro and Scorsese reunion, and an AI-generated feature.
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.
Bleak Week, Year Five
The world’s most desolate film festival expands to nearly a hundred theaters in seventy-three cities.
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.
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.
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.
Cannes 2026 Awards: Fjord, Minotaur, and More
Top prizes go to films by Cristian Mungiu, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Valeska Grisebach, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Los Javis.
Better Parts
This week brings a look back at Cronenberg’s Crash and conversations with Boots Riley and Wallace Shawn.
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.
Hope and Fjord
There’s zero consensus when it comes to the latest films by Na Hong-jin and Cristian Mungiu.
All of a Sudden and Paper Tiger
New films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and James Gray are riding high on the Cannes critics’ grids.
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.
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.
Cannes Openers
Jane Schoenbrun’s third feature is met with raves, while three other early entries are seeing mixed reviews.
Previewing Cannes 2026
Sorting through critics’ most-anticipated titles, catching up with interviews and profiles, and more.
May Books
We begin with the Marilyn Monroe centenary and move on to thrillers and collections of poetry and critical essays.
Out of Your World
Film Comment relaunches, Richard Kelly writes, Lynne Ramsay prepares, and in 1976, Roberto Rossellini talked.