The Son

May 13, 2010 — Samuel Beam is an American singer-songwriter (and former film studies professor!) better known by the stage name Iron and Wine. His last album was 2007’s The Shepherd’s Dog, and a follow-up is in the works. When selecting his top ten...

Paul Grimstad’s songs and original scores have been in movies by the Safdie brothers, Sean Price Williams, Nathan Silver, Albert Maysles, and others. His writing has appeared in print and online in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Baffler,...

Mar 8, 2024 — This week calls for notes on some of the best writing on each of the ten nominees for Best Picture.

Jun 15, 2022 — The late actor will be remembered for his work with Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson—and Jerry Seinfeld.

Aug 4, 2021 — The Weeknd, Alice Rohrwacher, and Andrew Haigh set up new series; plus updates on series coming from Park Chan-wook and Olivier Assayas.

Apr 17, 2013 — Four of the great Japanese director’s lesser-known, early films show the coming into being of a political artist.

Mar 24, 2026 — In this true-crime epic, Martin Scorsese combines his career-long exploration of amoral gangsterism with a sobering meditation on what it means to live on American soil.

Dec 9, 2025 — In her Cannes-award-winning narrative feature debut, Mira Nair sees the lives of Indian street children with an unconditionally generous gaze, taking in their world in all its contradictions and complexity.

Sep 4, 2025 — The long-awaited passion project is celebrated in a new book, a documentary, and a retrospective.

Jul 24, 2025 — This year’s Cinema Rediscovered festival spotlights the vitally independent voices of the Thatcher era.