Into the Okavango

Mar 12, 2021 — Deep Dives I can think of few movies that express the pain of being young better than Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kobo Abe’s Ako (1964). I first happened upon it by chance, lurking among the supplements on the Criterion edition of...

Mar 12, 2021 — This week’s round features Merawi Gerima’s conversation with Ephraim Asili, an early talk with Claire Denis, and the greatest performances of the twenty-first century.

Dec 1, 2020 — Near the end of the late Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee’s six-decade career in cinema, journalists liked to ask him one question quite frequently: Why did he never enter Bollywood?Depending on your vantage point, this query is either reasonable or ridiculous....

Nov 2, 2020 — He became a star in the 1960s as 007 and carried on winning over fresh waves of fans through the 1990s.

Oct 27, 2020 — A good number of film publications are reminding us that this is the season for terrifying ourselves.

Oct 14, 2020 — The first raves are in, but we’ll have to wait until Christmas Day to see it.

Sep 23, 2020 — From Hitchcock’s orbit to The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces, here’s some of this month’s best writing on new books.

Sep 2, 2020 — Festival directors join Venice head Alberto Barbera, who encourages the industry to get back up and running again.

Aug 13, 2020 — The author and Tablet columnist has written a tight critical biography.

Aug 11, 2020 — Gina Prince-Bythewood, Pedro Almodóvar, Ellen Kuras, and Paolo Sorrentino are among the filmmakers who have lined up projects to take on as soon as it’s safe.