On the Line

Feb 8, 2018 — On Monday, Variety’s Kirsten Chuba reported that John Mahoney, “best known for playing Martin Crane on eleven seasons of Frasier,” had passed away the previous day at the age of seventy-seven. “He won a SAG Award and received two Emmy...

Jan 23, 2018 — Last week we saw the first four titles lined up for this year’s Berlin Critics’ Week, the independent program that, like its counterparts in Cannes and Venice, runs parallel to its city’s big festival, the Berlinale. Below, an overview; you...

Nov 23, 2017 — Christian-Jaque’s period adventure Fanfan la Tulipe screens as part of a series inspired by the work of painter Jean Honoré Fragonard.

Sep 14, 2017 — Andrei Tarkovsky brings his austere aesthetic and metaphysical concerns to space in his epic Solaris, playing this week at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

Aug 15, 2017 — The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the titles lined up for the Masters, Contemporary World Cinema, Wavelengths, and Primetime programs of its forty-second edition, running from September 7 through 17, and added more Gala and Special Presentations.Earlier rounds: The...

Jun 8, 2017 — Repertory Picks Next Wednesday evening, moviegoers across the pond will have a chance to take in Terry Gilliam’s 1991 The Fisher King, the first entry in a monthly screening series at London’s historic Regent Street Cinema cosponsored by Criterion. After...

Jul 26, 2013 — Did You See This?• On his birthday, a few of Staney Kubrick’s favorite things . . .• . . . plus one more • Bon voyage, Bernadette Lafont• RIP Dennis Farina• Martin Scorsese on cinema and the mind’s eye• Life...

Jun 17, 2013 — The author introduces a new Current series that will feature his reminiscences about his encounters in international cinema circles over the past five-plus decades.

Sep 9, 2009 — For the second year in a row, the Criterion Collection is going into the Catskill Mountains to curate a weekend of cinema for All Tomorrow’s Parties New York. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, ATP is a music festival that was...

Jan 22, 2007 — A delightfully old-fashioned morality tale, Robert Day’s low-budget space flick is far more than the standard monster fare it was initially sold as.