Proof

Jun 30, 2025 — An up-and-coming director reflects on the resourcefulness and scrappy ingenuity that went into making his three films, now playing on the Criterion Channel.

May 27, 2025 — A landmark of independent cinema, Charles Burnett’s debut feature captures daily life in Watts, Los Angeles, with a depth and precision that evokes the history of Black American music.

Mar 25, 2025 — Unfettered by the precepts of bourgeois morality and the nuclear family, the characters in Alan Rudolph’s romantic drama struggle to find happiness as they navigate love’s whims and ambiguities.

Feb 14, 2025 — On our minds this week: Chantal Akerman, Ang Lee, and Akira Kurosawa.

Dec 4, 2024 — For the New York Film Critics Circle, Brady Corbet’s third feature is the best film of the year, but not everyone agrees.

Nov 12, 2024 — The festival’s second edition reasserts its emphasis on “showcasing and advocating for personal, ambitious regional cinema.”

Jul 17, 2024 — Summer reading options range from fiction to philosophy, from the fog of war to finicky fame.

Mar 26, 2024 — In her first fiction film, director Alice Diop brings the skills of observation she has learned from her documentary work to a thought-provoking exploration of race, power, and motherhood.

Mar 26, 2024 — In Gus Van Sant’s wickedly funny tale of suburban depravity, Nicole Kidman plays a vacuous weather reporter whose hunger for fame anticipates our own era of digital celebrity.

Mar 13, 2024 — The subject of a revelatory retrospective at last year’s Morelia International Film Festival, this groundbreaking director ushered in Mexican cinema’s golden age with vibrant explorations of the nation’s folk traditions and revolutionary past.