A Working Man

May 10, 2019 — This week has seen surveys of the careers of Abbas Kiarostami and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and deep dives into milestone works by George Cukor and Andrei Tarkovsky.

Apr 23, 2019 — It’s unlikely that anyone who pays attention to contemporary short films will be unfamiliar with our selection this week on the Criterion Channel, which took the film-festival circuit by storm last year, garnering dozens of awards and an Oscar nomination....

Mar 19, 2019 — A few weeks after Barbara Loden, the writer, director, and star of Wanda, died at age forty-eight after a long battle with cancer, Elia Kazan, her widower, was interviewed by Marguerite Duras for Cahiers du cinéma. It was 1980, and...

Mar 18, 2019 — One Scene When Jia Zhangke made his 1997 feature debut, Xiao Wu, he was rebelling against decades of tradition that had drawn a hard line between cinema and reality. Chinese film history is rooted in genres found in classical theater...

Feb 7, 2019 — It’s an inauspicious beginning for festival director Dieter Kosslick’s farewell edition, but there’s much to look forward to.

Aug 27, 2018 — Theater and movie audiences laughed at his one-liners throughout the 1960s and ’70s.

Aug 13, 2018 — Looking back on the highlights of the seventy-first edition.

Jul 25, 2018 — After languishing for decades in John Waters’ attic, never-before-seen footage from the set of Female Trouble has made its way onto our newly released edition of the film.

Jul 12, 2018 — The French director’s English-language debut and first science fiction film is one of the first seven films selected to compete in San Sebastián.

May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”