In This World

Feb 25, 2020 — A philosophical debate running nearly three and a half hours has opened the Berlinale’s new Encounters competition.

Aug 7, 2019 — The last two days have seen an avalanche of titles filling up the fall festival lineups.

Jun 26, 2019 — Boasting the longest, most versatile career of any Czechoslovak New Waver, the late master made films mixed with deep compassion and an antiauthoritarian spirit.

Jan 9, 2019 — The Sopranos Film Festival celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the landmark show. Plus news from Rotterdam, Berlin, Austin, and Park City.

Sep 19, 2018 — The writer and editor for Artforum, cofounder of October, and professor at NYU was ninety-six.

Sep 6, 2018 — New films by Jennifer Kent, Jacques Audiard, Paul Greengrass, and Pablo Trapero.

Aug 13, 2018 — Looking back on the highlights of the seventy-first edition.

May 9, 2018 — Under the Influence In 1988, David Simon was a journalist shadowing detectives at the Baltimore Police Department for his first book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. On midnight shifts, one of the sergeants would regularly screen movies for his squad,...

Apr 18, 2018 — First up, some festival news. Joining Cate Blanchett, who’ll be presiding over the Jury of the seventy-first Cannes Film Festival (May 8 through 19), will be Chang Chen, who made his acting debut in Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day...

Apr 17, 2018 — Up at the top, that’s Behnaz Jafari and Jafar Panahi in Panahi’s 3 Faces, which is slated to premiere in Competition in Cannes next month. Film Comment points us to an interview with Panahi in the latest issue of World...