On Film

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Lucrecia Martel, Annette Michelson, Satyajit Ray, and Joanna Hogg feature in this week’s round.

One of the most sought-after composers in film and television opens up about his genre-defying sound and his deeply collaborative relationships with directors.

A new web resource spearheaded by Su Friedrich celebrates women editors from around the world, highlighting work that has long been obscured by the masculinism of auteurist film culture.

Following his landmark collection of photographs, The Americans, Frank made essential films about the Beats, the Stones, and his own personal tragedies.

The comedic murder mystery in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie has scored an outstanding round of early reviews.

In this landmark melodrama, director Ritwik Ghatak channeled his grief over the destruction of his beloved homeland, Bengal, in the wake of the Partition of India.

In his thought-provoking latest book, the critic and frequent Criterion contributor traces the complex ways European filmmakers have grappled with the influences of Christianity and modernity.

The jury presided over by Lucrecia Martel has surprised just about everyone.

Did You See This?

This week we revisit the work of the late critic Gilberto Perez, novelist W. G. Sebald, and filmmakers Alice Guy Blaché, Wong Kar-wai, and Agnès Varda.

In Nang, young writers celebrate Asian cinema in honor of Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc, and new issues of other titles offer fresh reviews and interviews.

Critics split three ways: Joker is just plain great, or great but dangerous, or dangerous and also really quite bad.

Fans of the Swedish director will know what to expect, but he seems to be taking his unique vision in a slightly new direction.

Performances

The late actor became an icon of his generation with this moody, brilliant non-performance, informed by his intimate knowledge of chaos and death.

With their novelistic density and sexual openness, the films of French master André Téchiné introduced director Stephen Cone to a strange new world of contradictions.

After Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh, it’s Timothée Chalamet’s turn to lead the English to the Battle of Agincourt.

Early verdicts diverge as widely as opinions on how to respond to the very idea of a new film by Roman Polanski.

Early reviews of Gray’s space odyssey are strong—and even stronger for Brad Pitt.

Dark Passages

Three noirs from 1949 plough up the dark underbelly of agriculture, exploring the corrupt system that puts food on our tables.

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This week, a feminist journal folds, a filmmaker pens a manifesto, and Richard Linklater commits to a twenty-year project.

Class tensions in postwar Japan unsettle the domestic life of a middle-aged couple in this sweetly satirical marriage comedy from Yasujiro Ozu.

Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche star as a mother and daughter clashing over contrasting versions of their past.

The late D. A. Pennebaker once dreamed of being a jazz musician, but he instead found his instrument in a news camera that allowed him to change documentary filmmaking forever.

In the run-up to Venice, Telluride, and Toronto, New York announces its retrospective and revivals.

Paving a path from neorealism to playfully deconstructive postmodernism, Abbas Kiarostami’s suite of village fables explores complex philosophical mysteries through disarmingly simple means.