On Film
March Books
It’s an eclectic bunch this month, featuring a new play, a ban on the color green, and Godzilla.
Living Memories
Brussels celebrates Chantal Akerman, Hirokazu Kore-eda remembers Ryuichi Sakamoto, and there are some intriguing projects in the works.
SXSW: Awards, Star Power, and Controversy
A bittersweet comedy and a documentary about a Shakespeare production in a virtual world take the top prizes.
BFI Flare Lights Up London
This year’s edition opens with Amrou Al-Kadhi’s Layla, and Elliot Page will be on hand to talk about Close to You.
Cinema Revolutionary: Fernando de Fuentes in Morelia
The subject of a revelatory retrospective at last year’s Morelia International Film Festival, this groundbreaking director ushered in Mexican cinema’s golden age with vibrant explorations of the nation’s folk traditions and revolutionary past.
First Look 2024
The thirteenth edition offers twenty features, new short films by Kevin Jerome Everson and Nathaniel Dorsky, workshops and more.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: The Highest Stakes
In this profoundly emotional portrait of artist Nan Goldin, director Laura Poitras explores how her subject’s creative sensibility and commitment to activism spring from the same source.
Oppenheimer’s Big Night
After scoring eight nominations over more than twenty years, Christopher Nolan is finally taking home a couple of Oscars.
A Weekend with the Oscars
This week calls for notes on some of the best writing on each of the ten nominees for Best Picture.
Becoming Hou Hsiao-hsien
Though the Taiwanese director began working in commercial genres, even his earliest mainstream films contain the seeds of the inimitable style that would establish him as one of the world’s most important filmmakers.
Previewing SXSW 2024
The Austin festival presents action-heavy Headliners, creepy Midnighters, and promising Competition contenders.
Summer Strands in Bologna
Marlene Dietrich, Pietro Germi, Anatole Litvak: Il Cinema Ritrovato previews nine main programs.
Tricia Romano’s History of the Village Voice
The reviews are strong, and one excerpt focuses on the influential film pages.
Remembering David Bordwell
Friends and admirers pay tribute to his rigorous scholarship, his boundless enthusiasm, and his warm generosity.
Early Hou, and Ceylan, Too
This week offers David Bordwell on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s evolution, Jean Eustache on Ernst Lubitsch, and two must-read reviews of About Dry Grasses.
Japanese Horror in New York
Film Forum presents two-week series featuring two dozen films, many of them screening from rare 35 mm prints.
True/False Spotlights Girls State
Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss will be in the Show Me State to discuss their companion film to the prizewinning Boys State.
Cinema Revival 2024
The festival will host the world premiere of the new restoration of Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish (1999).
The Roaring Twenties: Into the Past
Hollywood legend Raoul Walsh’s first movie for Warner Bros. is an epoch-spanning tall tale that takes inspiration from the New York City of his childhood and closes out a run of influential gangster films he inaugurated in the silent era.
Mati Diop Wins the Golden Bear
The Berlinale’s top award went to Dahomey on an evening that has sparked heated debate.
Undone and Remade
Revivals of work by Raoul Peck and Jean-Pierre Bekolo and conversations with James Gray and Jodie Foster are among this week’s highlights.
Sean Price Williams’s 1000 Movies
The great cinematographer’s list of inspirations has been circulating among friends for two decades, and now, it’s a book.
Two with Isabelle Huppert
Huppert takes the lead in Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs and André Téchiné’s My New Friends.
The Heroic Trio / Executioners: To the Power of Three
Combining the influence of the wuxia genre, the Hong Kong New Wave filmmaking of the 1980s, and loony comic-book futurism, these two ass-kicking fantasias are dazzling showcases of female physicality.