Les cocotiers

Sep 11, 2018 — There is a brief, nearly throwaway scene early in Olivier Assayas’s Cold Water (1994) that testifies to the transcultural power of rock and roll. In an apartment outside Paris in 1972, we see two teenage brothers wrestling over a portable...

Aug 9, 2018 — An annual destination for cinephiles from around the world, this film festival in Bologna is a magical place to discover the richness of cinema’s past.

Jul 27, 2018 — Olivier Assayas calls Blain “one of the great, underrated, unknown, under-recognized filmmakers of his time.”

Jul 25, 2018 — And Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind will finally see the light of day.

Jul 7, 2018 — The writer and director lived a full and robust life both before and after his monumental Shoah.

Jun 15, 2018 — Fordlandia will tell the true story Henry Ford’s failed attempt at recreating an American town in Brazil.

Jun 8, 2018 — Both Italian directors broke from neorealism to head off in entirely different directions.

May 18, 2018 — Improvising to Jim Jarmusch’s film in real time, Neil Young created a rich parallel environment that sounds like a force of nature.

May 7, 2018 — And it’s May ’68 all over again in New York, D.C., and London. Plus Bergman in L.A., Tarkovsky in San Sebastián, and more.

May 1, 2018 — Working within the strict rules and tight budget of a commissioned television project, one of France’s finest contemporary directors made an artistic breakthrough that would go on to define his career.