After

Jul 26, 2019 — This week’s round features conversations with Abbas Kiarostami, Christopher Doyle, Julia Loktev, and Barry Jenkins.

Jul 25, 2019 — The festival will premiere new work from James Gray, Haifaa al-Mansour, Roy Andersson, Ciro Guerra, Costa-Gavras, Roman Polanski, and Olivier Assayas.

Jul 25, 2019 — My first three films—Angela, Personal Velocity, and The Ballad of Jack and Rose—are all mysteries of female identity, how it can be warped, destroyed, or saved, particularly in the context of family and sexual love. These films are highly charged...

Jul 23, 2019 — The festival announces an intriguing closing night film, and the sidebar known to most as Venice Days unveils its lineup.

Jul 23, 2019 — He even walks in stereo. So proclaims a kid on a stoop toward the beginning of Do the Right Thing; he’s stunned by the sun but also by the sight and sound of Radio Raheem. Raheem is silent but so...

Jul 22, 2019 — The new book is the perfect supplement to a retrospective that begins touring the country on Friday.

Jul 22, 2019 — As the Provençal baker at the heart of Marcel Pagnol’s wise, warm 1938 comedy The Baker’s Wife, French star Raimu moves effortlessly between comic exaggeration and touching subtlety, creating a protagonist as lovably dignified as he is incorrigibly flawed. The...

Jul 18, 2019 — One of the great American films of the seventies, Alan J. Pakula’s crime thriller Klute is powered by Jane Fonda’s groundbreaking, Oscar-winning turn as Bree Daniels, a New York City sex worker and aspiring actor who finds herself drawn into...

Jul 18, 2019 — The director’s first film made outside of Japan stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, and Ludivine Sagnier.

Jul 18, 2019 — With its picturesque Provençal village, florid theatrical dialogue, and cast of familiar southern-French actors, dominated by the formidable Raimu, The Baker’s Wife is classic Marcel Pagnol territory. In 1938, when the film was released, the feted author and playwright was...