The Place

Aug 13, 2020 — A sharp panel recommends events around the world, while New York and Venice add titles to their lineups.

Nov 11, 2019 — This month we’re reading about the women (and men) of Hollywood, weighing arguments from all corners, and picking up an overlooked novel.

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

Dec 8, 2018 — Bluebeard films, German theorists, Fassbinder’s attack, sensory experiences, and the world’s largest movie studio.

Mar 14, 2018 — Bette Davis struck a blow against expectations of pliant female loveliness and grace with her role as a no-nonsense teacher in The Corn Is Green.

Sep 28, 2017 — Dee Rees, whose Mudbound is set to screen at the New York and London film festivals, will direct an adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1996 novel The Last Thing He Wanted, reports Screen’s Jeremy Kay. Says Rees: “It’s an international spy...

Mar 25, 2015 — Errol Morris’s revolutionary film boldly investigated the truth of a murder case while reimagining documentary cinema aesthetics.

Oct 18, 2012 — Every ten years since 1952, the world-renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled the results. The top fifty movies in the 2012 critics’ list, unveiled August 1, include...

May 15, 2026 — This week: Super 8 films by Teo Hernández, a new feature from Patrick Wang, and a revival of Aloïse (1975), starring Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig.

Aug 26, 2025 — Alice Wu’s feature debut is a romantic comedy in which the most compelling relationship is the one between a young queer Chinese American woman and her long-widowed mother.