For His Son

May 18, 2018 — Improvising to Jim Jarmusch’s film in real time, Neil Young created a rich parallel environment that sounds like a force of nature.

Feb 16, 2018 — “The responsibility of being a gay film critic,” writes Michael Koresky, “to borrow a phrase from the great Robin Wood, is to be honest about your responses as an individualized viewer, and to balance questions around identity with a film’s...

Jan 24, 2018 — We begin with Rolling Stone’s David Fear: “Pick any random song by the Coup—we suggest ‘Fat Cats, Bigga Fish’ from their 1994 album Genocide & Juice, or ‘My Favorite Mutiny’ from 2006’s Pick a Bigger Weapon—and you'll get complex anti-corporate...

Dec 3, 2017 — On Friday, John Waters, as tradition demands, officially launched this year’s list-making season with his 2017 top ten for Artforum. He’s included work by filmmakers as varied as Bertrand Bonello, Woody Allen, and Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein, and coming...

Aug 18, 2017 — In this unsparing drama, Mike Leigh captures the grim mood of Thatcher’s England through the frustrations of a working-class London family.

Jul 17, 2017 — The Venice International Film Festival, whose seventy-fourth edition will run from August 30 through September 9, has announced that, on September 1, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford will each be presented a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. This will happen...

Jul 1, 2017 — Adrian Martin has made a discovery that definitely needs passing along here, the digital edition of L’Atalante, Revista de estudios cinematográficos, the esteemed biannual journal published in Valencia, Spain. Several of the most recent issues are also available in English....

Feb 3, 2017 — Did You See This? Over at the Ringer, K. Austin Collins takes the temperature of queer cinema today, with a focus on two gay-themed selections that were at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats and Luca Guadagnino’s...

Dec 13, 2016 — Yesterday, we kicked off our Criterion Channel series Spy Games by sharing Graham Greene's review of Jacques Feyder’s Knight Without Armour, a highlight in the lineup. Today, we’re focusing on another title in the series, Sabotage, which marked “the first...

Nov 11, 2016 — Last night, we were heartbroken to learn of the passing of Leonard Cohen at the age of eighty-two. A trailblazing musician who started out as a poet and novelist, Cohen established himself as one of the world’s most influential singer-songwriters,...