You Are the Film

Jan 21, 2025 — In his first Hollywood film, British director Stephen Frears dives into the nihilistic world of Jim Thompson’s fiction, delivering an adaptation profoundly attuned to the novelist’s sense of ineluctable suffering.

Jun 21, 2024 — We open with an Italian neorealist classic, steer through ’70s-era paranoia, and wrap with a blast of gnarly rock ’n’ roll.

Apr 25, 2024 — The American Cinematheque presents all six features, including the Los Angeles premiere of Eureka.

Mar 14, 2024 — A bittersweet comedy and a documentary about a Shakespeare production in a virtual world take the top prizes.

Sep 21, 2023 — The trippy, globe-hopping critical favorite from Locarno is now slated to screen in New York.

May 31, 2023 — It’s not every year that so many critics are pleased with the juries’ choices.

Feb 21, 2023 — On the verge of implosion, the band rages through a performance of their song “Circle Sky” in a psychedelic, politically trenchant sequence from director Bob Rafelson’s debut feature.

Nov 18, 2021 — Brief notes on films arriving from Mike Mills, Tatiana Huezo, Jane Campion, Robert Greene, and Radu Jude.

Sep 28, 2021 — Adoption was the first Hungarian film to compete in Berlin—and the first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear.

Jun 29, 2021 — Here’s the latest on projects in the works from Lynne Ramsay, Walter Hill, David Fincher, Mia Hansen-Løve, and more.