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Nightmare Cinephilia
The best-of-2023 listing begins, plus: Abel Gance, Elisabeth Subrin, Pedro Costa, and Park Chan-wook.
Who Wants to Be Right?
Quite an emotional range this week, from musicals and romantic comedies to the terror of nuclear war.
Those Frozen Horses
Todd Haynes and Tilda Swinton take questions, and Guy Maddin fibs every now and then.
Resonant Hauntings
Black mothers’ stories come around again, Matt Wolf probes the archives, and Lizzie Borden conjures the streets of mid-1980s New York.
Fragility and Resilience
Sandra Hüller meets Joachim Trier, Hayao Miyazaki predicts the future, and MoMA showcases Iranian cinema.
Twenty Years On
We’re revisiting Infernal Affairs, Lisandro Alonso’s Los muertos, and some of the first reviews posted at Reverse Shot.
Love Wins
The UK celebrates Powell and Pressburger, two writers tune into Robert Bresson, and The Exorcist turns fifty.
Late Dialogues
Look who’s talking: Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Nathaniel Dorsky, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Gregg Araki . . .
Lightning Bolts and Subliminal Whispers
Notes on a “gobsmacking” Mexican classic, Isabelle Adjani’s secrets, and underground cinephilia in Iran.
The Artifice and the Real
The week brings conversations with Hal Hartley, Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Pedro Costa, Wang Bing, and Rita Azevedo Gomes.
Everything That Lasts Causes Trouble at First
John Waters goes Hollywood, Terence Davies reads a poem, and Marguerite Duras tears it all down.
“So Much More Than Movies”
This week features interviews with Martin Scorsese and Arturo Ripstein and appreciations of Tout va bien and Boris Karloff.
One Hundred Years On
We’re celebrating Ousmane Sembène’s centennial, reading interviews with Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Kasi Lemmons, and watching soundies.
To Hear Them Tell It
Stan Lee meets Alain Resnais, plus interviews with Molly Haskell, Babette Mangolte, and Manohla Dargis—and James Quandt on Jean Eustach
Difficult Circumstances
This week brings restorations of work by Kira Muratova, a personal story from Werner Herzog, and conversations with Kim Morgan and Dustin Guy Defa.
Here’s to Rejuvenation!
This week we’re revisiting After Hours and other ’80s greats and the oeuvres of Yasuzo Masumura and François Truffaut.
So Many Great Interviews!
Look who’s talking: Carl Franklin, Claire Simon, Ira Sachs, Jim Jarmusch, Sally Potter, Laura Citarella, Christoph Hochhäusler . . .
What Really Speaks to Us
This week: Stephanie Zacharek’s hundred favorites, Peter Wollen on the British New Wave, and a conversation with Hong Sangsoo.
Moment to Moment
Names in the news this week: Agnès Varda, Hayao Miyazaki, Jafar Panahi, Savanah Leaf—and Bree Daniels.
Striking Images
This week, we’re reading conversations with Cheryl Dunye, Christian Petzold, and Whit Stillman.
Melville, Mogambo, and Mattel
This week gives us a new Cinema Scope, an Ernst Lubitsch podcast, and an interview with John Woo.
Tall Talk and a Triple Issue
This week’s highlights include conversations with Boots Riley and Lucrecia Martel and a new triple issue of Offscreen.
Death and Politics
Critics rank political movies and revisit the work of Fassbinder, Pasolini, and Juliet Berto.
Full of Stars
The week has brought interviews with Claire Denis and Pedro Costa and essays on the work of James Baldwin and Sharon Lockhart.