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May 30, 2018 — A new website and two translations of her memoir will extend the Belgian filmmaker’s legacy.
May 29, 2018 — John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy is a milestone along several different paths of movie history, all of which converged at the majestically seedy crossroads of Times Square in the spring of 1968.
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May 24, 2018 — In the 1940s, legendary British filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger took the eye-popping, beautifully saturated palette of Technicolor to delirious new heights. For this month’s episode of Observations on Film Art, now playing on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck, scholar Kristin Thompson explores...
May 24, 2018 — Let the celebrations begin with a series in New York, a season in London, and a new restoration.
May 24, 2018 — The late novelist’s work has proven to be an all but insurmountable challenge to screenwriters—but there’s hope.
May 23, 2018 — About halfway through Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation (2016), Dr. Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) finds himself in a patch of woods in the middle of the night, crying. It’s a surprisingly vulnerable moment for a protagonist who is usually all business. We’re...
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May 21, 2018 — Movies you may not care about are inspiring some writing you won’t want to ignore.
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May 20, 2018 — New restorations of rarely seen gems from the 1920s and ’30s are screening in New York.
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May 20, 2018 — A lifelong movie collector remembers the thrill of discovering the granddaddy of all monsters on Super 8.
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May 19, 2018 — All agree that the drama set in the slums of Beirut is gripping, but is it too manipulative?