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From Mann to Moullet
This week: Michael Mann, Peter Strickland, Pedro Almodóvar, Luc Moullet, and a forgotten chapter of film history.
Ages of Rebellion
This week, we look back on the making of If...., black filmmakers in the 1990s, and the golden age of Mexican cinema.
New Cinema Scope and Old Polaroids
This week’s highlights include an oral history of one of Kubrick’s most challenging sequences and reviews of the latest works from Béla Tarr and Paul Thomas Anderson.
The Big Questions
Can the movies survive? Can rotten people be great artists? Are we all doomed?
A Panorama of Politics
On the late Peter Whitehead, Jordan Peele’s Us, drag culture, European refugees, and images of incarceration
Tours and Sighs
This week we revisit the work of Pawel Pawlikowski, Carlos Reygadas, Robert Mitchum, Hal Hartley, and Elaine May.
Literary Influences
Chinese poets and American and English novelists figure prominently in this week’s round.
The Struggle Never Ends
In the spotlight this week: Barbara Rubin, Chantal Akerman, Kenji Mizoguchi, Dominik Graf, and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
“The Only Sane Person on Rumble Fish”
In the news this week: Francis Ford Coppola, Raúl Ruiz, Joanna Hogg, and Lou Ye.
Surveys and Milestones
This week has seen surveys of the careers of Abbas Kiarostami and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and deep dives into milestone works by George Cukor and Andrei Tarkovsky.
What Actually Goes On in the Movies
BAM’s Black 90s series, Nina Menkes, a poet, Avengers, and a list of the top films of the 2010s are among this week’s highlights.
Journals and Revivals
New issues of Screening the Past and cléo are out this week, and new restorations are opening in New York.
From Canyon Cinema to Outer Space
In the spotlight this week: A new resource on avant-garde cinema, Kent Jones on Francis Ford Coppola, Darren Hughes on Claire Denis, and more.
Perspectives on Half a Century
This week sees further remembrances of Agnès Varda, reflections on Godard then and now, and appreciations of a vital but too often overlooked filmmaker, Nelly Kaplan.
Surveys and Assessments
Deep dives into the work of Bob Fosse and Buster Keaton and a mash note to Aki Kaurismäki lead this week’s highlights.
“Looking for New Sorts of Utopias”
Fresh assessments of the work of Chris Marker and Stanley Kubrick, an interview with Kent Jones, and that stellar year for American cinema, 1999.
Archives and Anniversaries
This week spotlights George Cukor, Chantal Akerman, Straub-Huillet, Antonioni, and the feud between Clint Eastwood and Pauline Kael.
Readings and Revisions
Featured in this week’s round: Edgar G. Ulmer, Stanley Kubrick, Jia Zhangke, and Guy Maddin.
International Women’s Day
Claire Denis in Film Comment, an ongoing project at Directed by Women, and Glenda Jackson and Meryl Streep in conversation are among this week’s highlights.
The Made and the Unmade
Barbara Hammer gives an “exit interview,” Béla Tarr discusses Sátántangó, and Neil Jordan writes about the projects that got away.
“Forgotten with a Vengeance”
Oscar-nominated songs, the unsung Marielle Heller, Lois Weber, Germans in Paris, and more feature in this week’s round.
“The Community of Things”
New restorations, a new trailer, new translations, a new publication, and new perspectives on an awesome and abhorrent film.
Odd Couples
Norman Jewison and Ray Charles, Jules Feiffer and Alain Renais, and Jia Zhangke and Apple.
Master Classes and Memorable Moments
Rotterdam and Vanity Fair get a cinephile’s dream roster of filmmakers talking about their work.