A Day

May 12, 2018 — The nineties-era love story returns the French director to critical favor.

May 10, 2018 — The followup to Mrs. Fang is an oral history of China’s “Anti-Rightist Campaign” in the late 1950s.

May 10, 2018 — The underground scene of Leningrad in the early 80s is the real star here.

May 10, 2018 — The director of Ida returns with the story of an intense love affair.

May 9, 2018 — The first film from Kenya in Cannes’s Official Selection has already been banned at home.

May 7, 2018 — With quiet mastery, he depicted lives of faith, humility, and hard work.

May 1, 2018 — Cairo is “the city that made me what I am,” says Tamer El Said.

Apr 26, 2018 — In the Year of the Pig (1968) With the fiftieth anniversary of the May ’68 upheaval weighing so heavily on the cultural hive mind at the moment, now’s the perfect time for a retrospective of work by the radical director...

Apr 20, 2018 — Let’s catch up with the new issue of cléo journal, this one dedicated entirely to the work of Agnès Varda. When the journal launched five years ago, it took its name from Varda’s 1962 classic, Cléo from 5 to 7....

Apr 20, 2018 — “Although her oeuvre to date is wide-ranging,” writes Melissa Anderson at 4Columns, Claire Denis’s “most celebrated films are those that probe, usually elliptically, the legacy of French colonial rule in Africa, as seen in Chocolat (1988), her semiautobiographical debut feature;...