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Inside the Echo
On our minds this week: Chantal Akerman, Ang Lee, and Akira Kurosawa.
After the Revolutions
The week brings fresh appreciations of Sara Gómez, Frederick Wiseman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vittorio De Sica, and David Lynch.
Spooky and Sexy
As an Australian classic turns fifty, we’re also reading about Leos Carax and Catherine Breillat.
What Comes After
We’re sampling new issues of Notebook, Senses of Cinema, and 032c and reading about Eisenstein and Charlotte Zwerin.
The Donut, Not the Hole
Featured this week are Frank Capra, Michael Roemer, John Ford, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Artifacts and Moments
This week: Eisenstein’s diaries, Godard’s artworks, Mike Leigh’s characters, and Sidney Poitier’s late work.
Is That the Time?
We spent the holidays reading about Claude Sautet, Pascal Plante, and Christian Marclay.
Music with Pictures
Along with conversations with Jem Cohen and Johnnie To, the week brings fresh angles on the year that was.
It’s Not Them
The week’s offered fine writing on Elaine May, Robert Siodmak and Ella Raines, and Christopher Nolan’s turning-point movie.
Making, Unmaking, Remaking
Richard Linklater and James Benning revisit Godard’s Breathless and Wim Wenders looks back on Paris, Texas.
Can’t Pin Them Down
The week offers evasive icons, an archive to rummage through, and a great but overlooked critic.
Wish for a Breeze
Powell and Pressburger, Cassavetes and Rowlands, Robert Frank, Catherine Breillat, John Waters, Babette Mangolte, Sergei Loznitsa . . .
Vertiginous Heights
Catherine Breillat’s debut feature and series programmed by Jenni Olson and Lizzie Borden are among this week’s highlights.
Five Image-Makers
This week offers revivals of overlooked films by Antonioni and Alan Rudolph and conversations with Garrett Bradley and Paulo Branco.
Nocturnal Cinemas
An underseen gem of the Czechoslovak New Wave and an ambitious history of Hindi cinema are among this week’s highlights.
American Identities
Names in the news this week: Bette Gordon, Robert Frank, Don Hertzfeldt, Alfonso Cuarón, Cate Blanchett, and Quentin Tarantino.
Dreams of the Future
The week offers conversations with Francis Ford Coppola and John McNaughton, deep dives into a horror classic, and a guide to Indie’a Parallel Cinema.
Critical Returns
The times call for revisiting work by Robert Bresson, John Ford, Shu Lea Cheang, Brian De Palma, and Robert Towne.
Personal Choices
Catching up with Todd Solondz, missing Maggie Cheung, and wrapping up the summer of 2024.
Swallowed by the Sea
Will we ever see Ezra Edelman’s Prince documentary? Plus Chantal Akerman, Demi Moore, and the waning of “elevated horror.”
Plate o’ Shrimp
Alex Cox discusses his first and next films, Warhol rarities screen in New York, and a courtroom drama revisits the culture wars of 1970s France.
Under the Surface
Martin Scorsese and Edgar Wright discuss overlooked British films and cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing talks about working with Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Vital Revivals
We’re revisiting key films from Francis Ford Coppola, Martha Coolidge, John M. Stahl, Asghar Farhadi, and Jacques Rozier.
Planet Waves
While we check in this week on Jane Campion and Clint Eastwood, IndieWire reassesses the best of the 2000s.