The Criterion Collection
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Jun 10, 2019 — The growing presence of unabashed queerness in contemporary culture makes the past seem comparatively drained of it. But it was always there. There’s often a queer history that lies beneath our accepted mainstream hetero narratives. When excavated, these histories can...
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Aug 25, 2017 — On Wednesday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented the lineup for the Spotlight on Documentary section of this year’s New York Film Festival, following lineup announcements for the Main Slate, Projections, Revivals, and Retrospective programs. Today, the FSLC adds...
Essays
Jul 19, 2004 — Marcel Carné's third feature is as epochal as any film made in France in the 1930s, exemplifying the style known as “poetic realism.”
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Feb 27, 2024 — The festival will host the world premiere of the new restoration of Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish (1999).
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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.
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May 17, 2023 — Now that Jeanne du Barry has opened this year’s edition, critics look ahead to the movies they’re anticipating most.
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Mar 3, 2021 — Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? and Dénes Nagy’s Natural Light compete at the Berlinale.
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May 26, 2020 — Karina Longworth’s podcast You Must Remember This returns with a season devoted to the unjustly unheralded producer, production designer, and writer.
Jun 20, 2017 — At the dawn of sound cinema, French theater titan Marcel Pagnol immortalized his epic vision of his native Provence in three exquisite humanist dramas.
May 27, 2026 — When Joachim Trier made his debut in 2006 with the film Reprise, I felt as if a veil had been lifted. There was nothing wrong with Norwegian cinema before Trier’s arrival, but it always seemed to be about someone else,...