La escondida/The Hidden One

Apr 13, 2023 — Combining elements of soft-core porn and film noir, one of the most popular Hollywood genres of the 1980s and ’90s captured the fraught aspirationalism and sexual mores of the era.

Jan 6, 2023 — The interdisciplinary Canadian artist was best-known in the States for such landmark films as Wavelength (1967) and La région centrale (1971).

Oct 18, 2022 — Drawing from Latin American folklore, Jayro Bustamente conjures an intimate, supernatural tale that engages with Guatemala’s history of violence.

Sep 14, 2022 — Always innovating, Godard was one of the most vital and influential figures in the history of cinema.

Aug 11, 2022 — New York’s Film Forum commemorates the director’s centennial year with a series of twenty-one films.

Jun 22, 2022 — The long, quietly tense opening minutes of L’eclisse offer a blueprint for filmmakers looking to craft a devastating breakup scene.

Feb 15, 2022 — Playful irreverence gives way to tragedy and transcendence in Leo McCarey’s 1939 masterwork, one of the defining romances of the Hollywood studio era.

Dec 8, 2021 — One of the liveliest and most perceptive cultural critics is gone at sixty-four.

Aug 6, 2021 — Catching up with the latest from Alphaville, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, La Furia Umana, and Film-Philosophy.

Jul 20, 2021 — Dismissed as gossip-column fodder in its time, Jacques Deray’s cooly enigmatic villa thriller is an exploration of masculine vanity and feminine disillusion.