The Audience

Feb 21, 2020 — Few big-screen depictions of World War II have brought its atrocities to life with the brutality and cinematic ingenuity of Come and See, the legendary final film by Soviet director Elem Klimov. A restoration of this masterpiece opens today at...

Dec 6, 2019 — Among the many enduring virtues of The Story of Temple Drake—a pre-Code William Faulkner adaptation whose sensational depiction of a hopelessly fallen world, rife with sexual violence and other forms of malice, scandalized audiences upon its release in 1933—is its...

Nov 8, 2019 — Woman of Tokyo (1933) screens tonight in Los Angeles, and Tokyo Twilight (1957) will play for a week in New York.

Jul 16, 2019 — Armando Iannucci will open London, and Locarno and Venice are preparing their 2019 lineups

Feb 26, 2019 — The trailblazing African American director Charles Burnett’s third feature, To Sleep with Anger (1990), was his biggest production to date, albeit still made on a modest budget of $1.4 million, a significant portion of which was raised through the attachment...

Feb 7, 2019 — It’s an inauspicious beginning for festival director Dieter Kosslick’s farewell edition, but there’s much to look forward to.

Dec 14, 2018 — “It’s sad to say, but women do not have much importance in westerns,” observed Anthony Mann, a master of the genre, in a 1957 Cahiers du cinéma interview. Made that same year, Samuel Fuller’s Forty Guns begins with a whopper...

Nov 28, 2018 — Made on a shoestring budget, Edgar G. Ulmer’s 1945 Detour is a landmark of film noir, a hardboiled thriller that represents the genre at its seediest and most fatalistic. But despite amassing critical acclaim and a significant cult following over the decades,...

Oct 19, 2018 — A new 4K restoration of the immortal city symphony Wings of Desire begins its theatrical run in New York City this weekend.

Oct 18, 2018 — An autumnal round of reviews, excerpts, interviews, and news.