The Idea of You

Jun 7, 2024 — Standouts this week include conversations with Bridgett M. Davis and Nan Goldin and essays on Nobuhiko Obayashi and Paul Schrader.

Feb 10, 2023 — We head this week to Germany before and after the war and then revisit gruesome killings in Japan and France.

Aug 11, 2022 — New York’s Film Forum commemorates the director’s centennial year with a series of twenty-one films.

Aug 31, 2020 — Fans around the world remember an accomplished actor, a genuine movie star, and a generous role model.

Sep 25, 2019 — Here’s an overview of how fifteen films in the NYFF’s Main Slate have been faring since premiering in Cannes.

Jul 11, 2019 — Once again, the Cineteca di Bologna has presented a richly varied showcase of discoveries, rediscoveries, and new restorations.

Jun 4, 2016 — Wim Wenders’s road movies, Michael Almereyda writes, are “at once minimal and romantic, austere and lyrical,” focusing on questions—of individuals and society, culture and nature—that Wenders has returned to throughout his career.

Jul 21, 2009 — Jean-Luc Godard’s essay follows twenty-four hours in Juliette’s life, beginning and ending in the evening in the apartment she shares with her husband and two young children.

Sep 23, 2025 — A tale of animal survival in a world deserted by humanity, Gints Zilbalodis’s Oscar-winning triumph casts a hushed spell with its elemental storytelling, immersive visual style, and creaturely subjectivity.

Sep 22, 2020 — Francesco Rosi’s film Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) is based on Carlo Levi’s novelistic memoir of the same name, which became an instant classic of Italian literature when it appeared at the end of World War II, in 1945. In...