The Criterion Collection
Nov 16, 2022 — After glimpsing his great-great-grandfather on-screen, a writer searches for the history of a landmark silent film.
The Daily
Sep 15, 2022 — Spielberg finally tells the story that has shaped so many of his films, and critics are loving it.
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Aug 16, 2022 — The director’s first novel is an action-packed prequel and sequel to his 1995 film.
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Aug 5, 2022 — We wrap the week with melodrama and Odorama, a new magazine, and the summer of 1982.
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Aug 1, 2022 — The Austin Film Society presents films directed by Anna Karina, Juliet Berto, Jeanne Moreau, and Delphine Seyrig.
Essays
Jun 21, 2022 — By centering an empowered Black hero, Gordon Parks reimagined the detective genre and exposed its racial politics.
May 5, 2022 — Has Asian American cinematic representation really reached unprecedented heights, as almost all recent film coverage on the subject claims? In the past two years, critics’ polls, New York Times features, and Golden Globes scandals have marked the newfound success of...
Apr 26, 2022 — In the opening moments of Arie and Chuko Esiri’s Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (2020), we first hear—the ceaseless hum of machines at work—and then see: a jumble of multicolored wires. The 16 mm film image is grainy, trembling ever...
Apr 6, 2022 — A playfully philosophical drama, My American Uncle has been largely forgotten, yet it is the most down-to-earth of the French master’s exhilarating engagements with modernist aesthetics.
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Mar 1, 2022 — A series in London presents films from around the world depicting societies in flux in the 1960s and ’70s.