The Watch

Sep 8, 2023 — The festival launches new films by Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, and Ibrahim Nash’at.

Jul 10, 2023 — Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev took the top prize, while the Yasuzo Masumura retrospective thrilled attendees.

Apr 13, 2023 — Combining elements of soft-core porn and film noir, one of the most popular Hollywood genres of the 1980s and ’90s captured the fraught aspirationalism and sexual mores of the era.

Apr 7, 2023 — Along with the new Cinema Scope, we’re reading Raúl Ruiz’s diaries and conversations with Agnès Godard and Gregg Araki.

Mar 16, 2023 — While the competition juries have their say, critics spotlight a few favorites from the gala premieres.

Jan 6, 2023 — The interdisciplinary Canadian artist was best-known in the States for such landmark films as Wavelength (1967) and La région centrale (1971).

Dec 13, 2022 — A pioneering feminist artist drawn to universal themes, the Swedish director mined the complexity and humor of human behavior in films that courted controversy and cultivated a sense of detachment.

Dec 7, 2022 — The Sight and Sound poll calls for more deliberation and the best-of-2022 lists keep coming.

Aug 23, 2022 — With one foot in naturalism and the other in dreams and poetry, Marcel Carné’s visually rousing drama is an ode to the daily vicissitudes of ordinary Parisians.

Jun 23, 2022 — Along with celebrations of Dario Argento and George A. Romero, the season brings a series of more than a hundred nightmares.