On Film

The Berlinale will premiere new work by Angela Schanelec and Denis Côté, Rotterdam’s got an opener, and Steven Soderbergh will preview his latest at Slamdance.

Repertory Picks

One of the all-time scariest creature features kicks off a three-week-long tribute to the director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Selection to the registry ensures that “these films will be preserved for all time.”

As critics list their favorite television shows of 2018, we take a look at some of the most notable writing about a few of their picks.

Director Euzhan Palcy put herself at personal risk to make this powerful indictment of racism in South Africa, released at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement.

Alfonso Cuarón’s latest scores best film awards from critics’ groups in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Toronto.

Songbook

Performed by the late Barbara Harris, the final song in Robert Altman’s masterpiece is a provocative mix of genres and conflicting cultural resonances.

Did You See This?

Bluebeard films, German theorists, Fassbinder’s attack, sensory experiences, and the world’s largest movie studio.

In quietly simmering dramas that depict solitary characters on the margins of society, German director Christian Petzold brings the ghosts of history into conversation with modern life.

Adam McKay’s Vice leads the Golden Globe nominations as critics write up their lists of the best of 2018.

Also in today’s round of festival news: Guillermo del Toro’s alternative history of Mexican cinema and Sundance’s New Frontier.

Repertory Picks

Rainer Werner Fassbinder skewered the emptiness of capitalist values in Lola, a fifties-set homage to Josef von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel, playing this Sunday at the University of Wisconsin.

The New Beverly reopens in Los Angeles and Film Comment offers fresh coverage of the repertory scene in New York.

Twelve episodic works and seventy-three shorts will premiere in Park City, while Rotterdam shines its spotlight on Parajanov and Godard.

David Byrne cracked open the profound strangeness of small-town Texas in this wonderfully symphonic film, his sole foray into narrative-feature directing.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s period romp wins a record ten British Independent Film Awards, and John Waters picks his ten favorite films of 2018.

Did You See This?

A new issue from a magazine founded over fifty years ago and a showcase of work by aspiring film critics.

First Reformed, Eighth Grade, Roma, and The Rider emerge as early favorites.

112 films, including new work from Joanna Hogg, Stanley Nelson, Kim Longinotto, and Ritesh Batra.

Goings On

The largest retrospective in the U.S. yet is on through mid-December.

Repertory Picks

Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, a fiercely experimental look at the excesses of modernity, screens tonight at the Trylon cinema in Minneapolis.

The career of one of Italy’s greatest directors was riddled with scandal and accolades.

The Magnificent Ambersons

With The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles created a model of period filmmaking, lightly deploying historical signifiers while focusing on the haunting power of his actors’ faces.

The Magnificent Ambersons

Unlike his adaptations of Shakespeare and Kafka, Orson Welles’s take on a Pulitzer Prize winner by Booth Tarkington is remarkably faithful to its source.