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Aug 9, 2018 — The Academy’s announced three changes it hopes will ward off encroaching irrelevance.

Aug 7, 2018 — Can creative genius flourish on the federal dime? Animator Norman McLaren’s remarkably innovative, government-funded films suggest it can.

Jul 27, 2018 — “We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts,” Bergman once wrote to Ullmann—and that emotional intensity gave fuel to their extraordinary forty-year collaboration.

Jul 18, 2018 — Alan Rudolph is a pioneer in the American independent film movement. He has directed nineteen narrative features and one feature-length documentary. His films have been presented in major international festivals for forty years and are noted for their fluid style,...

Jul 16, 2018 — The legendary baseball writer talks about the no-nonsense pleasures of one of the all-time great sports movies and the classic essay he wrote about it.

Jul 10, 2018 — The martial-arts film was never the same after King Hu got his hands on it, reinventing the genre with subtle editing and dazzling choreography.

May 19, 2018 — All agree that the drama set in the slums of Beirut is gripping, but is it too manipulative?

May 3, 2018 — Sebastián Lelio is a Chilean filmmaker based in Berlin. His fifth feature film, A Fantastic Woman, won the 2018 Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Independent Spirit Award for best international film. It premiered in main competition at...

Apr 24, 2018 — Heads-up: My Criterion is going offline temporarily at the end of the month. We’ll let you know when it comes back, new and improved, later this year.

Oct 30, 2017 — Just in time for Halloween, we’re musing on what it is that makes a movie frightening with the help of filmmaking duo Josh and Benny Safdie.