The We and the I

Jul 7, 2018 — The writer and director lived a full and robust life both before and after his monumental Shoah.

May 28, 2018 — Alan Bean, one of twelve astronauts to leave their footprints on the moon, left us last weekend at the age of eighty-six.

May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”

Apr 16, 2018 — New York. The Tribeca Film Festival opens on Wednesday, and later in the week, we’ll be taking a look at two series opening on Friday, The Puppet Master: The Complete Jiri Trnka at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and...

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 — One of the most memorable sequences in the silent classic People on Sunday explores the experience of being photographed and the tension between still and moving images.

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.

Dec 15, 2017 — First up, as Kristopher Tapley reports for Variety, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed the list of contenders for the best foreign language film Oscar to nine: A Fantastic Woman, directed by Sebastián Lelio, ChileIn the...

Dec 6, 2017 — Before breaking events down by city, let’s note that, to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, Canyon Cinema is taking four 16 mm programs and two digital packages on the road—coast to coast and many, many points in between. Here’s a map...

Nov 20, 2017 — “Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday after nearly...