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Joachim Trier Grapples with the Fractured Time of Don’t Look Now
The acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker talks about Nicolas Roeg’s richly suggestive, nonlinear approach to time in his masterpiece Don't Look Now.
John Cassavetes, Underrated Surrealist
The director of Computer Chess and Support the Girls finds in John Cassavetes a surrealist whose weirdest set pieces could make David Lynch blush.
When Actors Do Double Duty
From Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers to Kazuo Hasegawa in An Actor’s Revenge, performers who multitask as several characters in a single film tap into the essential uncanniness of cinema itself.
Paradise Found: Il Cinema Ritrovato
An annual destination for cinephiles from around the world, this film festival in Bologna is a magical place to discover the richness of cinema’s past.
The Sprightly Civil Servant: Norman McLaren at the National Film Board of Canada
Can creative genius flourish on the federal dime? Animator Norman McLaren’s remarkably innovative, government-funded films suggest it can.
An Intense Curiosity: Chloé Zhao on The New World
The award-winning director of The Rider explores the deep respect for nature and subjective human experience in Terrence Malick’s masterful vision of early seventeenth-century America.
Wanda Now: Reflections on Barbara Loden’s Feminist Masterpiece
Some of our favorite writers and artists share what continues to haunt them about Barbara Loden’s long-neglected 1970 masterpiece, which returns to theaters in a new restoration this week.
Machine Gun McCain and the Birth of the Cassavetes Clan
Before John Cassavetes and his core group of actors became famous for their unflinching melodramas, they converged in this tough and dirty Italian gangster film.
Out of Time: Sam Shepard in Days of Heaven
In his big-screen breakthrough, Sam Shepard delivers tenderness, ferocity, and the quiet expressiveness of a silent film star.
Mightier Than the Sword: Shinobu Hashimoto at 100
Can screenwriters change the course of film history? The work of key Kurosawa collaborator Shinobu Hashimoto proves they can.
Corridor of Mirrors: The Eternal Return
Building on a rich lineage of gothic fairy tales and noirish melodramas, this lavishly stylized curio has an ominous beauty all its own.
On the Mishima Set
With her dazzling work on Paul Schrader’s portrait of author Yukio Mishima, graphic designer Eiko Ishioka set out to create sets as vivid as the film’s characters.
The Hell of War: David Simon on Paths of Glory
The creator of The Wire takes inspiration from the narrative and moral complexity of Stanley Kubrick’s war masterpiece.
Look at That Girl
Depth, beauty, curiosity—what gave luminous French star Danielle Darrieux staying power across eight decades? Critic Farran Smith Nehme looks for the answer in two films from opposite ends of her career.
Tabletop Intimacy: One Scene from À nos amours
The director of Love After Love examines the emotional subtlety of Maurice Pialat’s camera work in a pivotal scene in the 1983 masterpiece À nos amours.
The Sun on Their Faces: One Scene from People on Sunday
One of the most memorable sequences in the silent classic People on Sunday explores the experience of being photographed and the tension between still and moving images.
The One and Only Saul Turell
On what would have been Saul Turell’s ninety-seventh birthday, Peter Cowie celebrates the man who was the beating heart behind Janus Films.
I’m All Right Jack and The Organizer: Bread and Roses and a Lot of Laughs
Two marvels of midcentury social commentary now streaming on the Criterion Channel show how progress can be a one-step-forward, two-steps-backward process.
Flickers of Passion: Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter
No one has captured the complexities of forbidden love with more intimacy than Celia Johnson in David Lean’s classic romance.
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The Beautiful Crimes of Henri Decaë
In her latest column, critic Imogen Sara Smith explains how cinematographer Henri Decaë brought a risk-taking spirit and seductive allure to some of the most iconic French crime films.
Outlier Looking In: Emmanuelle Devos in A Christmas Tale
Amid the tumultuous family dynamics on display in Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale, Emmanuelle Devos delivers a performance of remarkable subtlety and lyricism.
Reintroducing Metaphors on Vision
In conjunction with a new edition of Stan Brakhage’s Metaphors on Vision, we’re sharing a selection from the opening pages of this seminal work.
Adventures in Perception: Stan Brakhage in His Own Words
This collection of excerpts from interviews with Stan Brakhage illuminates the evolution of his philosophy of film through his career.
The Shape of Corruption
Matteo Garrone’s gritty portrait of the Neapolitan Mafia draws on a lineage of Italian crime films dating back to Francesco Rosi’s trailblazing Salvatore Giuliano.