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Nightmare Cinephilia

The best-of-2023 listing begins, plus: Abel Gance, Elisabeth Subrin, Pedro Costa, and Park Chan-wook.

By David Hudson

The Radical Cinema of Kiju Yoshida

A retrospective in New York offers an opportunity to delve into Yoshida’s views on the work of early masters such as Kurosawa and Ozu.

By David Hudson

San Francisco’s Day of Silents

Rudolph Valentino, Anna May Wong, Harold Lloyd, and Pola Negri will light up the Castro’s big screen on Saturday.

By David Hudson

Gothams and Golden Horses

Past Lives came out on top in New York, while Stonewalling triumphed in Taipei.

By David Hudson

The Cine-Fist in New York and Vienna

The activist spirit of Sergei Eisenstein haunts two new books.

By David Hudson

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Who Wants to Be Right?

Quite an emotional range this week, from musicals and romantic comedies to the terror of nuclear war.

By David Hudson

November Books

This month brings new books on Godard and Bergman, novelists moonlighting as film critics, and biographies of Lena Horne and Elizabeth Taylor.

By David Hudson

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Those Frozen Horses

Todd Haynes and Tilda Swinton take questions, and Guy Maddin fibs every now and then.

By David Hudson

Paul Vecchiali and The Strangler

A new restoration of beguiling 1970 oddity opens this weekend in cities across the country.

By David Hudson

Trailer Premiere: Taisho Roman

New York’s Japan Society presents six brash films set in a flourishing but all-too-brief era.

By David Hudson

Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil

A new restoration of the Cinema Novo classic opens in New York on Friday.

By David Hudson

Reading Michel Ciment

The leading editorial voice of Positif, the great critic and historian gave us essential books on Kubrick and Campion.

By David Hudson

Scott Eyman’s Charlie Chaplin vs. America

Chaplin, one of the world’s most beloved stars, was grateful to America—until it turned on him.

By David Hudson

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Resonant Hauntings

Black mothers’ stories come around again, Matt Wolf probes the archives, and Lizzie Borden conjures the streets of mid-1980s New York.

By David Hudson

“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”

The subtitle of the series Yasmina Price has programmed for BAM: Cinema, Surrealism, Marxism.

By David Hudson

DOC NYC and IDFA 2023

Both America’s largest and the world’s largest documentary film festivals open today.

By David Hudson

Bicoastal Contenders

For cinephiles in New York and Los Angeles, MoMA curators have selected some of the year’s most enduring films.

By David Hudson

“Life Is Radically Nonbinary”

Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography begins its theatrical run across North America.

By David Hudson

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Fragility and Resilience

Sandra Hüller meets Joachim Trier, Hayao Miyazaki predicts the future, and MoMA showcases Iranian cinema.

By David Hudson

Film Fantastique

Halloweenish movies from France will screen every Tuesday in New York through mid-December.

By David Hudson

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Twenty Years On

We’re revisiting Infernal Affairs, Lisandro Alonso’s Los muertos, and some of the first reviews posted at Reverse Shot.

By David Hudson

Remembering Richard Roundtree

Appearing in well over 150 movies and television shows, Roundtree will be always remembered for his portrayal of John Shaft.

By David Hudson

2023 Gotham Awards Nominations

What, awards season already? All of Us Strangers leads with four, followed by Past Lives and A Thousand and One, with three each.

By David Hudson

October Books

The season brings Barbra Streisand’s memories, the “joyously vulgar” Burton and Taylor, and the story of Siskel and Ebert.

By David Hudson