The Story of Sin

Jun 21, 1999 — Laurence Olivier’s Henry V today seems like nothing less than a miracle in answer to the Chorus’s call for “a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” It’s a dazzling adaptation of a Shakespeare play, made...

Aug 13, 2012 — Every ten years since 1952, the world-renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors about what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled...

Apr 20, 2021 — Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard and featuring a soundtrack by Sparks, Annette will premiere in competition.

Apr 29, 2015 — Peter Yates's crime drama is a haunting, singular experience, brutal and minutely observed, with a remarkably authentic sense of place.

Oct 31, 2024 — She brought a winning intelligence to suffering characters in such films and Young Frankenstein, Tootsie, and After Hours.

Aug 25, 2023 — This week brings restorations of work by Kira Muratova, a personal story from Werner Herzog, and conversations with Kim Morgan and Dustin Guy Defa.

May 18, 2019 — Diop’s debut fiction feature is a love story, a detective story, and a ghost story.

May 11, 2010 — The great Japanese actor Kei Sato passed away last week; he was eighty-one years old. You may not recognize Sato’s name, but if you’ve seen a Japanese film in the past fifty years, there’s a reasonably good chance you’ve fallen,...