Barbara

Dec 9, 2018 — Songbook The final scene of Robert Altman’s 1975 film Nashville belongs to the transient wannabe singer Albuquerque, played by the late Barbara Harris. Up to that point, the storyline has followed numerous musician characters who are striving to get discovered or bolster...

Dec 7, 2018 — Christian Petzold’s films are like dances in which people circle each other but never quite connect. The most resonant moments in the German writer-director’s work are not ones of dialogue or plot development but of blocking and choreography: bodies intertwining,...

Dec 6, 2018 — Repertory Picks Since September, the Cinematheque at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has devoted its Sunday-afternoon screening series at the Chazen Museum of Art to the work of New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder. And this weekend, the retrospective’s second...

Dec 3, 2018 — True Stories, David Byrne’s 1986 paean to American eccentricity and ordinariness, called to me from the shelves of a video store in Austin, Texas. Subtitled “A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil, Texas,” True Stories is not “true”...

Nov 29, 2018 — The largest retrospective in the U.S. yet is on through mid-December.

Nov 9, 2018 — This week has seen appreciations of such disparate figures as Ida Lupino, André Bazin, and F. J. Ossang.

Oct 18, 2018 — An autumnal round of reviews, excerpts, interviews, and news.

Sep 27, 2018 — Family tensions come to a boil in Hollywood master Anthony Mann’s searing blend of western and melodrama The Furies, playing at the Belcourt Theatre this week.

Sep 14, 2018 — Agnès Varda returns to Interview, David Lynch talks about his art, and more.

Sep 4, 2018 — A series at Anthology Film Archives and an archived special feature make for fine companions.