A Place in the World

Jun 30, 2025 — An up-and-coming director reflects on the resourcefulness and scrappy ingenuity that went into making his three films, now playing on the Criterion Channel.

Feb 5, 2025 — Starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, the film is a vivid record of the art life in 1970s New York.

Oct 23, 2024 — Selections from this year’s lineup will screen in New York and Los Angeles.

May 28, 2024 — With just a few exceptions, critics are generally pleased with this year’s awards.

Sep 28, 2022 — Sarah Maldoror’s only completed narrative feature tracks the Angolan struggle for independence from Portugal and reckons with the interlocking systems of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy.

Jun 22, 2021 — This month’s roundup of new and noteworthy titles opens with “a counterfactual history of the movies.”

Jul 30, 2020 — Channel Calendars Stuck at home this summer? Don’t let that get you down—our Bad Vacations series makes the case for staying in and watching movies, cataloguing an array of holiday horrors ranging from existential ennui to full-throttle terror. That’s just...

Aug 13, 2018 — Looking back on the highlights of the seventy-first edition.

Jul 17, 2018 — The festival has become a fertile hunting ground for discerning programmers.

Jun 8, 2018 — Both Italian directors broke from neorealism to head off in entirely different directions.