The Criterion Collection
May 21, 2024 — The Senegalese filmmaker’s steadfast devotion to African autonomy led him to become a foundational contributor to the hard-won, dynamic flourishing of an independent cinematic tradition on his home continent.
The Daily
May 16, 2024 — Does it measure up? For most reviewers, the answer is a resounding yes—but there are a few outliers.
May 14, 2024 — Few filmmakers had a greater impact on the shape and direction of American cinema in the 1960s and ’70s.
The Daily
Feb 29, 2024 — Film Forum presents two-week series featuring two dozen films, many of them screening from rare 35 mm prints.
Jan 23, 2024 — In the first ten years of her extraordinary career, the Belgian filmmaker used the raw materials of quotidian, marginal lives to spark a radical reinvention of cinema.
Dec 5, 2023 — A tight-lipped stranger arrives in a gold-mining town. After checking into a hotel, he heads to Charlie’s Saloon, one of those gambling palaces with glittering chandeliers and be-feathered hostesses. He is told that Charlie “runs the town” and “owns a...
The Daily
Oct 26, 2023 — Appearing in well over 150 movies and television shows, Roundtree will be always remembered for his portrayal of John Shaft.
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Jul 20, 2023 — The eye candy pops, the gags fly, and the debate over what selling out even means anymore rages.
Essays
May 30, 2023 — Arriving at a fulcrum moment in women’s history in the United States, Thelma & Louise stoked controversy by delivering a boldly feminist worldview in a funny, warm, and sexy package.
The Daily
Dec 29, 2022 — Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Catherine Breillat, Michael Mann, Christian Petzold, David Fincher . . .