In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod

Apr 5, 2024 — Léa Seydoux is the star of the week, and we’re also reading about Marguerite Duras, Juraj Herz, and Kinuyo Tanaka.

Mar 26, 2024 — In her first fiction film, director Alice Diop brings the skills of observation she has learned from her documentary work to a thought-provoking exploration of race, power, and motherhood.

Feb 7, 2024 — Metrograph presents three of Gomis’s own features along with two he’s chosen for the weekend series.

Dec 14, 2023 — Greta Gerwig will preside over the jury in Cannes, Sundance will celebrate forty years, and the Berlinale names a new director.

Sep 5, 2023 — Pablo Larraín’s Golden Lion contender and upcoming series in New York and Vienna mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean coup d’état.

Aug 10, 2023 — “You’re the company I waited so long for,” Dr. Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) says to her three Self Replicating Automatons in Teknolust (2002), artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s sci-fi farce about a scientist’s well-meaning pursuit of artificial life. Stone’s color-coded clones...

Jul 18, 2023 — In her music, her films, and her often stormy romances, Birkin captivated us for more than half a century.

May 9, 2023 — The Austrian Film Museum pairs features by the great French directors Jacques Becker and Claude Sautet.

Apr 19, 2023 — Paul Thomas Anderson, Maria Schneider, and fictional figures—Blanche DuBois and Juliet Capulet—figure in this month’s roundup.

Feb 28, 2023 — In his directorial debut, Robert Townsend channeled his frustrations with the typecasting of Black actors, resulting in a satire whose hilarious critique of Hollywood still resonates today.