The Big One

Oct 23, 2025 — For many critics and fans, the only problem with the five-hour series is that it isn’t twice as long.

Aug 8, 2025 — This week: Edward Yang, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and alternative lists of the best films of the twenty-first century.

Nov 12, 2024 — The festival’s second edition reasserts its emphasis on “showcasing and advocating for personal, ambitious regional cinema.”

Mar 16, 2023 — While the competition juries have their say, critics spotlight a few favorites from the gala premieres.

Mar 24, 2022 — Yes, it’s a trip to the moon, but mostly, it’s a lovingly detailed recollection of being a kid in Houston in the summer of 1969.

Mar 22, 2019 — This week spotlights George Cukor, Chantal Akerman, Straub-Huillet, Antonioni, and the feud between Clint Eastwood and Pauline Kael.

Apr 8, 2018 — Saige Walton and Nadine Boljkovac introduce the dossier “Materializing Absence” in the new issue of Screening the Past: “We start from the central premise that absence in screen media is not ‘nothing’—that absence itself is always invested with material attributes....

Jan 2, 2018 — John Hughes created the blueprint for the American teen movie with this pop-culture phenomenon, finding the humanity in an assortment of high school archetypes.

Jun 20, 2017 — With both films now streaming on the Criterion Channel, director Carroll Ballard discusses the parallels between his short documentary Rodeo and Francesco Rosi’s bull-fighting classic The Moment of Truth.

Jul 22, 2026 — This year’s Gala and Special Presentations will include new work from Tim Blake Nelson, Takashi Miike, Wayne Wang, and Anton Corbijn.