On Film
Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes
Echoes of the eighty-three-year-old director’s life and career are heard throughout his fourth feature.
Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers
Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy star in a melancholic story of romance and reconciliation.
The Artifice and the Real
The week brings conversations with Hal Hartley, Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Pedro Costa, Wang Bing, and Rita Azevedo Gomes.
Abel Gance’s La roue
The newly reconstructed and restored seven-hour version of the 1923 melodrama screens on Saturday and again next week in New York.
Zhang Lu’s The Shadowless Tower
After winning a handful of top awards in Beijing, the novelist-turned-filmmaker’s thirteenth fictional feature arrives in New York.
Moonage Daydream: “Who Is He? What Is He?”
Brett Morgen’s portrait of David Bowie is a free-associative hybrid of pop history and imaginative extravaganza—impressionistic, eclectically allusive, and, above all, immersive.
La Bamba: American Dreaming, Chicano Style
In this vibrant, music-filled portrait of an artist and his community, director Luis Valdez gathers what little is known about rock-and-roll idol Ritchie Valens and fuses it with a lived-in understanding of what it is to be Chicano.
Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border
The winner of a Special Jury Prize in Venice and a box-office hit in Poland now heads to the New York Film Festival.
The Man Behind the Wheel
Amid the anxiety and social turbulence of the Nixon era, car movies served to explore and embody the contradictions of American masculinity.
September Books
This month brings collections on Straub-Huillet and Whit Stillman, an Anna May Wong biography, and a novel starring Marilyn Monroe.
Everything That Lasts Causes Trouble at First
John Waters goes Hollywood, Terence Davies reads a poem, and Marguerite Duras tears it all down.
Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3
The trippy, globe-hopping critical favorite from Locarno is now slated to screen in New York.
Through a Screen Darkly: A Conversation with Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew
In the work of this New York–based filmmaking duo, the internet is an omnipresent force in everyday life, warping our perceptions and desires.
Two by Wang Bing
Few of Wang’s films contrast as starkly as Youth (Spring) and Man in Black, and both are set to screen in New York.
The Trial: Crime of the Century
In the film he once called his best, Orson Welles found a cinematic language equal to Franz Kafka’s distinctive effects, creating a vertiginous experience that accentuates the writer’s subterranean perversity.
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro
Warmly received in Venice, Cooper’s portrait of Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre now heads to festivals in New York, Zurich, London, Mill Valley, and Los Angeles.
Toronto 2023 Awards
Winners and runners-up include American Fiction, The Holdovers, Dicks: The Musical, and Dear Jessi.
“So Much More Than Movies”
This week features interviews with Martin Scorsese and Arturo Ripstein and appreciations of Tout va bien and Boris Karloff.
The Royal Hotel and Woman of the Hour
Male aggression threatens women’s lives in Kitty Green’s follow-up to The Assistant and Anna Kendrick’s debut feature.
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron
Early reviewers find that, while the master of animation’s twelfth feature may be hard to follow, it’s impossible to resist.
Professors in Trouble
Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction and Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario are received in Toronto with applause, laughter, and a few reservations.
2023’s Gold and Silver Lions
The jury in Venice presented its top awards to Yorgos Lanthimos, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Matteo Garrone, and Agnieszka Holland.
One Hundred Years On
We’re celebrating Ousmane Sembène’s centennial, reading interviews with Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Kasi Lemmons, and watching soundies.
Out of Competition in Venice
The festival launches new films by Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, and Ibrahim Nash’at.