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The Forum will also launch new films by Dan Sallitt, Heinz Emigholz, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell, and Thomas Heise.

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Plaudits for Elaine May and Barbara Stanwyck, conversations with Elliott Gould and Bertrand Tavernier, and a rift between a filmmaker and his subject.

SXSW presents a program of 102 features and episodics, and the Berlinale’s competition and Special lineups are now complete.

Unquiet is the first of Linn Ullmann’s books to directly address her parents. Plus, the criticism of Rivette and Bazin, a radio campaign led by Welles, and more.

Goings On

MoMA’s festival of film preservation features Lubitsch, Akerman, Murnau, Lupino, and an eclectic array of rediscoveries.

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A big list from the American Society of Cinematographers, a series celebrating a slew of twentieth anniversaries, and two great series in New York.

The February festival’s added eleven films to its competition and another six to the Berlinale Special program.

The Sopranos Film Festival celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the landmark show. Plus news from Rotterdam, Berlin, Austin, and Park City.

A few lingering observations on the films of 2018 from Slate’s Movie Club, the New York Times, and more.

Critics are fine with the actors who’ve won Golden Globes this year—as for the films they appear in, not so much.

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The new year brings us new issues of Cinema Scope, Film Comment, the DGA Quarterly, and World Records.

We look ahead to films by Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Paul Verhoeven, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and dozens more.

Polls and ballots, lists and considered reflections give shape to the year that was.

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New issues of Senses of Cinema and cléo this week, but also healthy seasonal doses of anxiety and lamentation.

Goings On

New York launches an Iranian film festival and sends its Art of the Real series to Los Angeles.

The star of one of the biggest sitcoms in the 1970s directed three major hit films in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Whatever your cinephilic interest—cinematography, acting, criticism—there’ll likely be a new book to take with you into the holidays.

Also, directors discuss their craft, and critics carry on listing the best films of 2018.

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In this week’s round: Tarkovsky and Eisenstein, Godard and Varda, and one of the most consequential television programs of all time.

The Berlinale will premiere new work by Angela Schanelec and Denis Côté, Rotterdam’s got an opener, and Steven Soderbergh will preview his latest at Slamdance.

Selection to the registry ensures that “these films will be preserved for all time.”

As critics list their favorite television shows of 2018, we take a look at some of the most notable writing about a few of their picks.

Alfonso Cuarón’s latest scores best film awards from critics’ groups in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Toronto.

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Bluebeard films, German theorists, Fassbinder’s attack, sensory experiences, and the world’s largest movie studio.