You Are the Film

Jun 12, 2024 — This summer, we’re bringing back one of our favorite seasonal themes with a hard-boiled Neonoir collection. Plus: Pop Shakespeare, Times Square, and Columbia Screwball.

Jun 4, 2024 — A doc on the Brat Pack, a new feature from Joel Potrykus, and an animated trip to Mars are among this year’s highlights.

May 17, 2024 — We’re reading about Chris Marker and Hiroshi Shimizu and listening to conversations from Cannes.

Mar 7, 2024 — The Austin festival presents action-heavy Headliners, creepy Midnighters, and promising Competition contenders.

Feb 13, 2024 — Through its echoes, resonances, and intricately branching stories, this cycle of films evokes the feeling that life, like the weather, is based on patterns too complex to ever be fully predictable.

Feb 1, 2024 — The festival sets its juries, adds two titles, and calls for the release of Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha.

Oct 3, 2023 — Echoes of the eighty-three-year-old director’s life and career are heard throughout his fourth feature.

Sep 8, 2023 — We’re celebrating Ousmane Sembène’s centennial, reading interviews with Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Kasi Lemmons, and watching soundies.

Aug 4, 2023 — Look who’s talking: Carl Franklin, Claire Simon, Ira Sachs, Jim Jarmusch, Sally Potter, Laura Citarella, Christoph Hochhäusler . . .

Jun 5, 2023 — The director of one of the major early works of the French New Wave lived to see interest in his work revived.