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“A United Platform”
As festivals around the world carry on revising their plans, Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and New York band together.
Ennio Morricone’s Radical Romanticism
The renowned composer of well over four hundred film scores was equally at home in avant experimentation and tear-jerking sentimentality.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth
Kore-eda’s first feature shot outside of Japan also gives us the first pairing of Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche.
Midsummer Thrills and Spills
A new issue of Cinema Scope, a State of Cinema address from Olivier Assayas, and the Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown are among this week’s highlights.
Sounding All the Alarms
New issues of photogénie, Comparative Cinema, and SCMS+ take on an array of raging crises.
Carl Reiner’s Best Life Possible
The actor, writer, and director was one of the most beloved comedians of his generation.
Summer Sparks in Film Quarterly
The new issue ranges from experimental nonfiction to a Pixar feature, from a ten-screen installation to Watchmen.
Five Paths to This Moment
This week’s history-seeped highlights explore queer cinema legacies, black stories on screen, and marketing movies while a pandemic rages.
Joel Schumacher: “There’s Nothing I Would Have Rather Done”
It was audiences, not critics, that made hits out of such movies as St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), Batman Forever (1995), and Phone Booth (2002).
From the French
Recent translations include intimate remembrances of Chris Marker and Maurice Pialat.
Ian Holm: “He Seemed to Tower Under You”
Heartfelt tributes to the great British actor have been appearing since he passed away on Friday.
“Freedom—and Unfreedom”
Along with Juneteenth and Pride Month viewing suggestions, we’re spotlighting interviews with Euzhan Palcy, Bill Forsyth, the Ross brothers, and more.
Coming . . . Eventually
James Gray is switching gears, Pablo Larraín is teaming up with Kristen Stewart, and Kirill Serebrennikov is set to take on the life of Andrei Tarkovsky.
The Material Worlds of Luther Price
At a 2012 screening of work by the late artist and filmmaker, programmer Ed Halter declared: “Luther Price is Brakhage after Punk.”
Reshuffling the Calendar
As studios delay the releases of their big summer movies, critics come down hard on the Academy for postponing the Oscars.
June Books
This month we’re looking at books on topics ranging from Japanese animation to Hollywood movie stars to jazz on the big screen.
Right Things
We’ve got a disparate set of highlights this week: Arthur Jafa, Josephine Decker, Bill Duke, Tsai Ming-liang, and the late Lynn Shelton.
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods
Early reviews suggest that this may be one of Lee’s most vital and immediately relevant features yet.
Hattie McDaniel and Gone with the Wind
As we remember the first African American to win an Oscar on her 125th birthday, HBO Max temporarily removes the movie she won it for.
Tentative Plans for the Fall
While AFI Docs and the Sheffield Doc/Fest go virtual, Il Cinema Ritrovato intends to screen new restorations and discoveries in Bologna in August.
Reading James Harvey
A patient and observant analyst of films and their stars, the playwright and critic has passed away. He was ninety.
Big Tree, Small Axe
A sampling of what’s been on our minds during this tumultuous and emotionally wrenching week.
“The Response Was Positive”
This week we’re learning about one of the world’s first tracking shots and catching up with Guy Maddin, Lewis Klahr, Sarah Cooper, and Steve Buscemi.
Irm Hermann, from Torture to Triumph
One of Fassbinder’s most beloved and abused performers, Hermann broke away and relaunched a lauded career.