Kingdom

Nov 19, 2018 — Taipei hosts an evening of surprises and controversy.

Jul 24, 2018 — Yorgos Lanthimos will open the NYFF, and Claire Denis’s High Life will be among the world premieres in Toronto.

Mar 27, 2018 — At the height of his career, Ken Russell brought D. H. Lawrence’s classic exploration of human sexuality to the screen with frank eroticism and visual panache.

Jan 1, 2018 — One of the most intriguing films we can look forward to in the new year is Claire Denis’s English-language debut, High Life. “I’ve always been interested in science, in astrophysics,” Denis told the Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Roxborough in November. “But...

Nov 28, 2017 — Ahead of the Christmas Day opening, preview screenings of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread in New York and Los Angeles began over the weekend and will continue through Thursday. Variety’s Kristopher Tapley suggests that “if you define a film as...

Aug 24, 2017 — As noted on Tuesday, the Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne is presenting a Jacques Tourneur retrospective through September 24. The Cinémathèque française in Paris rolls out another from August 30 through October 8, and of course, the big one was staged...

Aug 28, 2015 — Wes Anderson’s famous style just keeps extending its reach. According to W magazine, a lot of this year’s fall fashions are torn straight from the iconoclastic American director’s stylebook, with designers from Gucci to Bally offering looks reminiscent of The...

Aug 24, 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....

Jun 10, 2009 — Kind Hearts and Coronets, that most wicked comedy of ill manners, had established Alec Guinness as an acting force—and coming so soon after he had disappeared into the role of Fagin in David Lean’s Oliver Twist, his dazzling embodiment of...

Feb 11, 2008 — Though today he is most fondly remembered for his later romantic comedies, typifying Hollywood filmmaking in its heyday, it should be known that Ernst Lubitsch was also a pioneer of the modern movie musical.