Linklater and Time, Examining The Mystery of Picasso, New Fosse Biography

• Time out with Richard Linklater in a new video essay.

• J. Hoberman on high art

• Sketching Persona

• Alain Delon and Robert Evans, men about town

• Jan N?mec talks movies and music.

• The last temptation of Slavoj Žižek

• Clouzot, Picasso, and painting for the cinema

• How they made The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders

• The Grand Budapest Hotel opens.

• The tale of a murderer and a movie entrepreneur

• Molly Haskell gets personal.

• Jazz hands and thumbs up for a new Fosse biography

• Steven Soderbergh back at work

• M again

• You’ve come a long way, baby.

• The films that influenced John Sayles

• Sweden’s new Bechdel-test-based rating system

• We’re flattered and a little baffled.