Take Point

Mar 22, 2022 — In Robert Aldrich’s epic disaster film, James Stewart leads a pack of temperamentally different men as they struggle to survive in the face of the unknown—a template that would go on to influence Hollywood blockbusters for decades to come.

Feb 15, 2022 — Films from Italy, Iceland, and the Central African Republic each map the dynamic between four friends.

Feb 9, 2022 — The Learning Tree may have been Gordon Parks’s first feature film as a director, but by the time filming began in the fall of 1968, Parks already had almost three decades of experience behind a camera. In 1940, the self-taught...

Jan 27, 2022 — As John Cameron Mitchell’s newly restored second feature returns to theaters, many wonder if it could possibly be made today.

Jan 21, 2022 — Welles, Hitchcock, Malick, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Jonas Mekas appear between the covers this month.

Jan 6, 2022 — With the Omicron wave on the verge of peaking, Sundance calls off this year’s in-person events.

Dec 10, 2021 — This week sees new issues from New York, Cineaste, Film Quarterly, and the Brooklyn Rail.

Dec 7, 2021 — As his latest feature arrives in the U.S., the director has already begun work on his next one.

Nov 29, 2021 — The composer and lyricist who reinvented the American musical was “more of a film buff than a theater buff.”

Nov 22, 2021 — The newly opened museum celebrates the centenary with a two-part retrospective.