The Driver

Oct 24, 2019 — The nominations are out for the Gotham Awards, the IDA Documentary Awards, and the AACTAs.

Nov 29, 2018 — 112 films, including new work from Joanna Hogg, Stanley Nelson, Kim Longinotto, and Ritesh Batra.

Jan 12, 2018 — The sixty-eighth Berlin International Film Festival is just over a month away now, running from February 15 through 25, and so far, we’ve seen first rounds of titles lined up for the Competition and the Panorama, Generation, and Shorts programs—as...

Jul 24, 2017 — “It seems, at first, like an impossible caper,” begins Jordan Hoffman, writing for the Guardian. “Can Steven Soderbergh bring something new to the heist genre after his outstanding Oceans trilogy? The answer, as always, is to have faith in the...

Jun 27, 2017 — Let’s break the pattern a bit and open today’s entry with the recommended listening first. Karina Longworth’s outstanding podcast You Must Remember This has just returned from a well-deserved hiatus with a new series, “Jean and Jane.” As in Seberg...

Dec 30, 2024 — Ring in 2025 with this selection of highlights from our past year in publishing.

Dec 14, 2021 — In 1968, soon after he graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India, Mani Kaul made an arresting short titled Forms and Designs. It observes artisans at work across the country, some swimming alone against the tide of mass...

Apr 14, 2020 — Whether or not you believe it is the greatest year of all for the Hollywood studio system, the wonder of 1939 is the sheer depth of its bench. On a ten-movie best-picture ballot, the Oscars found no room to nominate...

May 21, 2025 — The exiled American director of Try and Get Me! and Hell Drivers depicted crime and violence as the inevitable results of capitalist competition.

May 7, 2020 — A new memoir occasions a couple of profiles in which the actor spins a few tales many of us may find challenging to deal with.