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This week we’re checking in on the cinemas of Brazil and South Korea, reading about Terrence Malick, and listening in on Emma Thompson and Tony Kushner.

Catherine Breillat and Todd Field are getting back behind the camera, while Scorsese and Spielberg forge ahead with their latest projects.

This month’s round spans from the earliest days of cinema, through Hollywood’s golden age and Scorsese’s Raging Bull to Sharon Stone’s memoir.

Chloé Zhao widens her lead in the Oscar race.

A round on the origins of works by Isabel Sandoval, Sky Hopinka, Steve McQueen, Pasolini, and Rivette.

An eighty-year-old widow defies the engines of progress in Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s latest feature.

The four-part series forages for the roots of the ideology of white supremacy.

The new issue spotlights some of the most notable films from this year’s Berlinale—and more.

For the first time, all four individual film acting prizes have gone to people of color.

This week people are writing and talking about Eric Rohmer, Michael Mann, Adam Curtis, the new Jump Cut, and the king of the “geezer teasers.”

More mysteries from Rian Johnson plus notes on forthcoming films from Steven Spielberg, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Alma Har’el, and more.

The Austrian Film Museum and Punto de Vista celebrate one of the most influential programmers in the history of cinema.

Filmmakers, programmers, and critics remember a man who “embodied the spirit of cinema as robustly as anyone ever has.”

Today’s round features writing on Catherine Breillat, William Greaves, Thom Andersen, and Patricia Highsmith.

One of the most beloved performers of the 1970s staged two comebacks in his later years.

Some of the most exciting new nonfiction work from around the world will be showcased in the coming weeks.

Here’s what the critics have been saying about the winners of the two main competitions.

We’ve been watching and reading about films by Cecilia Mangini, Cheryl Dunye, Claire Denis, and Nina Menkes.

The range this month is wide, from Tsai Ming-liang to Ida Lupino, from Tobe Hooper to Josephine Baker.

This year’s virtual edition offers seventy-five features over five days.

Calls for greater diversity in the Academy’s membership that began with the #OscarsSoWhite campaign have finally begun to bear fruit.

This week’s round features Merawi Gerima’s conversation with Ephraim Asili, an early talk with Claire Denis, and the greatest performances of the twenty-first century.

The Museum of Modern Art is streaming the only two features by the forgotten filmmaker championed by Bertrand Tavernier and Pierre Rissient.

With a newsletter and a revived podcast, the essential magazine takes two first steps back from its hiatus.