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May 20, 2017 — “The film industry is full of unassuming figures quietly holding everything together without ever demanding a share of the limelight,” begins Gwilym Mumford in the Guardian. Filmworker, a “tender documentary” premiering in the Cannes Classics program, “makes time to profile...
Aug 30, 2013 — Did You See This?• The great beauty of actor Toni Servillo • De Palma on De Palma • Support an LGBT film festival in Russia. • See the real New York. • Ginger Rogers, working girl • Successes here, shockers...
Tony Pipolo writes extensively on film. He is the author of the award-winning Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film and is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York.
Tony Rayns is a London-based critic with a special interest in the film cultures of East Asia. He has been awarded the Kawakita Prize (2004) and the Foreign Ministry of Japan’s Commendation (2008) for services to Japanese cinema. His books...
Tony Peake is the author of Derek Jarman (The Overlook Press, 2000) and two novels: A Summer Tide (Abacus, 1993) and Son to the Father (Little, Brown, 1995). As a short story writer, his work has been widely anthologized, and...
Features
Dec 25, 2025 — Celebrate the holiday season with this special treat from our production team.
Sep 24, 2025 — Propelled by outstanding performances from Emmanuelle Devos and Vincent Cassel, Jacques Audiard’s third feature is the rare French crime film built around a complex female character who takes initiative in a male-dominated world.
Nov 9, 2018 — Critically maligned upon their release, Ingmar Bergman’s only two English-language films show the master’s artistry at its most restrained and its most convoluted.
Aug 21, 2018 — A mythic piece of early Finnish cinema gets reimagined in the short film The Moonshiners, now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck.
Jul 21, 2011 — Performances When people talk about Mike Leigh’s Naked, the conversation is inevitably focused on David Thewlis’s nerve-shredding, tour de force central performance as the callous drifter Johnny, who slices through life like a straight razor. Yet consider how impossible his...