The Ex

Jun 7, 1993 — For as long as images have flickered on a screen, romance has been the ever-beating heart of the filmgoing experience, and audiences never seem to tire of seeing lovers in each other’s arms. Yet when it comes to the most...

Dec 3, 1990 — Over the years I have had a recurrent nightmare in which I am summoned to a large, unfamiliar building in a middle-European satellite country (Bulgaria, perhaps) to tell the idea of Annie Hall to the Bulgarian Minister of Green Lights,...

Jun 25, 1989 — Three men seek shelter from the rain under the ruined gate of the ancient city of Kyoto. There is nothing to do but talk, about a topic which torments two of the wayfarers, who have just been witnesses in a...

Nov 5, 2024 — As a composer, arranger, producer, and perhaps above all, connector, Jones was one of the most vital artists of the past seventy years.

Jan 15, 2009 — I have never seen New York look so beautifully grand as it did during my trip to Paris this New Year’s. Maybe I should explain. It was my great fortune to be visiting the City of Light while the intensely...

Jul 5, 2017 — Louis Malle’s intimate portrait of the American immigrant experience, commissioned on the centenary of the Statue of Liberty, screens in Pittsburgh this weekend.

Oct 15, 2013 — Georges Franju’s masterpiece is the most chilling expression in cinema of our ancient preoccupation with the nature of identity.

Apr 16, 2007 — Jules Dassin’s noir is arguably the meatiest and most resonant prison film ever made in Hollywood, drawing explicit parallels to the Nazi encampment experience.

The actor and author talks about the life-changing experience of watching The Battle of Algiers, praises the dreamlike quality of Federico Fellini's movies, and takes home all-time favorites like All That Jazz and Odd Man Out.

The director and cowriter of Emilia Pérez shares his love for Fritz Lang’s rich visual language, compares Robert Altman’s narratives to “surrealist exquisite-corpse exercises,” and praises the Viennese sensibility of Max Ophuls’s La ronde.