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Hollywood’s Top Dog
One of cinema’s most charismatic canines shows off his comedic chops in Leo McCarey’s screwball masterpiece The Awful Truth.
Remembering Film Studies Pioneer Annette Michelson
The writer and editor for Artforum, cofounder of October, and professor at NYU was ninety-six.
Fall Festival Marathon Wraps with TIFF’s Awards
Critics pick their favorite premieres of the season, and Toronto audiences vote up a surprise winner.
My Man Godfrey: The Right Kind of People
Once called “the great directorial genius of Hollywood” by Carole Lombard, Gregory La Cava struck comedy gold with this mix of madcap high jinks, irresistible romance, and social commentary.
New Faces and Legendary Women
Agnès Varda returns to Interview, David Lynch talks about his art, and more.
The State of Things
Michael Moore takes on Trump, Werner Herzog meets Gorbachev, and Astra Taylor asks a big question.
The Tree of Life: Let the Wind Speak
The imitation of nature becomes a devotional act in Terrence Malick’s cinema, which reaches sublime heights in this exploration of childhood, memory, and grief.
David Byrne’s Wild Texas Odyssey in Chicago
The Talking Heads front man mines the extraordinariness of ordinary American life in his surreal genre hybrid True Stories, playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center tomorrow and Tuesday.
Widows, Guns, and Money
Viola Davis, Robert Redford, and Gael García Bernal star in a cluster of new heist movies.
Nemes and Reygadas Split the Critics
Both Sunset and Our Time have their champions and detractors.
Cold Water: Dancing on the Ruins
Fueled by the rebellious sounds of rock and roll, Olivier Assayas’s long-unavailable breakthrough film is a remarkably unsentimental journey through the memories of youth.
Lions for Cuarón, Lanthimos, and Audiard
Hopes were high in Venice this year, and for the most part, they seem to have been fulfilled.
Joachim Trier Grapples with the Fractured Time of Don’t Look Now
The acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker talks about Nicolas Roeg’s richly suggestive, nonlinear approach to time in his masterpiece Don't Look Now.
Remembering Burt Reynolds
The star of over a hundred movies wielded his laid-back charisma to conquer the box office throughout the 1970s.
The Many Faces of Hal Ashby: A Conversation with Amy Scott
New Hollywood rebel Hal Ashby takes the spotlight in a new documentary by director Amy Scott, who talks with us about the deep allure of his humanist sensibility.
1968 All Over Again
Hoberman on Romero, Anderson on Godard, Gallagher on Ford, filmmakers’ top fifties, and more.
Sex and Violence on the Lido
New films by Jennifer Kent, Jacques Audiard, Paul Greengrass, and Pablo Trapero.
A Killer Combo at Film Forum
Two cult classics deliver jolts to the system in a double feature at New York City’s beloved Film Forum.
Women of the West
A series at Anthology Film Archives and an archived special feature make for fine companions.
Pop Stars, Painters, and Pastorals
Natalie Portman sings, Willem Dafoe paints, and Frederick Wiseman heads to Trump country.
The Village Voice Ends Its Sixty-Three-Year Run
And a pillar of American film criticism falls.
The Overlooked, Underrated, and Never Made
There’s a wistful sense of what might have been running through this week’s round of five.
Telluride 2018
World premieres, the best of the fests, and half a dozen classics selected by guest director Jonathan Lethem.