The President

Aug 6, 2019 — The groundbreaking filmmaker had a hand in inventing—and then reinventing over and again—the modern documentary.

May 27, 2019 — The awards have been presented, the red carpet rolled up, and now we can gather a little perspective on this year’s competition.

Feb 9, 2018 — Ioncinema has completed its countdown of the fifty most anticipated foreign films of 2019—that’s twenty-nineteen—and Nicholas Bell has written up a paragraph for each of the top ten: 1. Untitled Jonathan Glazer Project2. Abel Ferrara’s Siberia3. Kleber Mendonca Filho and...

Jan 25, 2018 — Charlie Kaufman, pictured above at work on his last feature, Anomalisa (2015), with co-director Duke Johnson, “is set to write and direct a film adaptation of Iain Reid’s internationally best selling novel I’m Thinking of Ending Things for Netflix,” announces...

May 28, 2017 — The jury for the 70th Cannes Film Festival—Pedro Almodóvar (president), Maren Ade, Jessica Chastain, Fan Bingbing, Agnès Jaoui, Park Chan-wook, Will Smith, Paolo Sorrentino, and Gabriel Yared—has presented this year’s Palme d’Or to Ruben Östlund’s The Square.A special 70th Anniversary...

Jan 7, 2016 — At the gala for the New York Film Critics Circle’s 2016 awards dinner Criterion president Peter Becker accepted an award on behalf of his father, Criterion cofounder William Becker. His remarks are reproduced here.

Jan 11, 2011 — His most personal film as well as the final one to deal with the German occupation of France, Jean-Pierre Melville’s thriller showcases human consciousness grappling with mortality.

Mar 23, 2009 — The most crowd-pleasing film of François Truffaut’s latter career is also one of his most personal, drawing from his memories of the German occupation of France, his schoolboy years and his lifelong infatuation with the creative arts.

Mar 11, 2024 — After scoring eight nominations over more than twenty years, Christopher Nolan is finally taking home a couple of Oscars.

Jul 14, 2023 — This week, we’re reading conversations with Cheryl Dunye, Christian Petzold, and Whit Stillman.