On Film
Promising Young Winners
The top awards at this year’s Critics’ Week go to stories of young people with uncertain futures.
Mississippi Masala: The Ocean of Comings and Goings
Mira Nair’s sumptuous second feature explores migration, rebellion, and romance across racial borders in the American South.
Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave
Park returns to the competition in Cannes with a Hitchcockian murder mystery.
David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
While some critics expected more gore, others see a wryly wise reflection on our biological future.
Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N.
The Romanian director maps varied strains of racism coursing through a tiny Transylvanian town.
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo
A contemporary reimagining of Au hasard Balthazar becomes an unlikely contender for the Palme d’Or.
Five Cannes Standouts
Critics take a first look at new films from James Gray, Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, Mia Hansen-Løve, Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, and Pietro Marcello.
Kirill Serebrennikov Returns to Cannes
As Tchaikovsky’s Wife premieres in competition, the Russian director fields questions about cultural boycotts.
The Uncharted Frontier: Will Rogers in John Ford’s America
In his collaborations with Ford, the beloved star—the highest-paid Hollywood actor of the early 1930s—played multidimensional characters that challenged assumptions about Native Americans.
Cannes Opens with Eustache, Zombies, and Cruise
A new restoration of The Mother and the Whore launches Cannes Classics before Final Cut officially raises the curtain.
The Funeral: At a Loss
Juzo Itami’s tragicomic directorial debut has scandalous fun with the Japanese traditions governing death.
May Books
This month we’re reading about David Fincher, Sofia Coppola, Hong Sangsoo, and Werner Herzog.
Fits and Starts
It wasn’t always smooth going for Max Ophuls, Mike Hodges, or Irrfan Khan.
Reality Breaks in Irma Vep
The director of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair reflects on the transformative power of a Sonic Youth needle drop in Olivier Assayas’s 1996 film.
The Inventive Versatility of James Wong Howe
New York’s Museum of the Moving Image presents a series of nineteen films shot by the accomplished cinematographer.
Qiu Jiongjiong and A New Old Play
Before Qiu’s award-winning feature opens in theaters, the National Museum of Asian Art will present an online retrospective.
The Eyes That Fascinate
Louis Feuillade’s influential serial Les Vampires reflected the French national subconscious at the time by depicting a madcap world of anarchy and violent spectacle.
Mr. Klein: It’s All in the Name
Joseph Losey’s sumptuous portrait of Nazi-occupied Paris sees an icy Alain Delon as an art dealer on a Kafkaesque quest for identity.
Alex Garland’s Men
The director of Ex Machina and Annihilation returns, and many critics have questions.
John Waters and Cookie Mueller
Waters has written his first novel, and a collection of Mueller’s writing has just been reissued.
“I’ll Die of Love”
This week: Tarkovsky’s answer to Kubrick, the Otolith Group, Brooklyn filmmakers, German scenes, and Béatrice Dalle.
Women Filming for Their Lives
A coincidental set of screenings and openings almost seems to be responding to the impending reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Memories of a Vibrant Moment in Asian American Cinema
Five pioneering filmmakers look back on the communities and institutions that helped them flourish in the 1990s, an era in Asian American moving-image culture that has since gone underappreciated.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2022
The twenty-fifth edition offers lavish decadence, experimental poetry, and timely poignance.