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May 13, 2009 — Alexander Korda’s oeuvre is often characterized as larger-than-life, undoubtedly in part because the figures he was attracted to—kings and queens, legendary lovers and great artists—were often extraordinary.

Mar 27, 2009 — Thanks to IFC Daily’s David Hudson for tipping us off to a couple of top-notch articles this week marking the fiftieth anniversary of the French New Wave. That’s right, it was fifty years ago, in May to be precise, that...

Sep 8, 1998 — In David Lean’s Summertime, in which Rossano Brazzi seduces Katharine Hepburn—an aging, repressed Ohio “working girl” on vacation in Venice—the Continental lover reached his pinnacle and approached his end. In the next decade, he would be embodied by Marcello Mastroianni,...

Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens, New York, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Bookforum, Granta, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Herculine, is out now.

Ramona Wray is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Queen’s University Belfast and the coauthor of Great Shakespeareans: Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli, published as part of the Arden Shakespeare series.

Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (2025), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University and...

Eric Hynes is a New York–based journalist, film critic, and curator. His writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, and Reverse Shot. He is curator of film...

Jul 1, 2026 — Film at Lincoln Center rolls out a series of ten films probing the secrets and suspicions of a nation that seems perpetually on edge.

May 19, 2026 — New films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and James Gray are riding high on the Cannes critics’ grids.