Life in a Year

Jun 27, 2022 — A retrospective in Los Angeles celebrates the publication of the director’s first novel.

Oct 15, 2020 — A quick survey of projects in the works coming from Ava DuVernay, Steven Soderbergh, Park Chan-wook, Clint Eastwood, and Ridley Scott.

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

Mar 27, 2020 — Following a briefing on the crisis, we turn to a few items that might help us take our minds off it.

Sep 10, 2018 — Hopes were high in Venice this year, and for the most part, they seem to have been fulfilled.

Jul 9, 2018 — His days as an on-screen heartthrob peaked in the 1950s and early ’60s, but John Waters made him a star all over again.

Jan 20, 2017 — Did You See This? Over at the BFI, John Berra has published a guide for getting to know some of Chinese-language cinema’s most revered filmmakers, including Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Wong Kar-wai. For its upcoming edition in Hong Kong...

Oct 7, 2016 — The Brooklyn Rail has published a conversation between Roberto Rossellini and Salvador Allende, prefaced with an introduction by Jonas Mekas, who received the original transcript from Rossellini in the early seventies. For MUBI, Daniel Kasman explores the newly restored early...

Jun 28, 2016 — This excerpt of a 1974 episode of the French television program Italiques offers a candid look at the eccentric artist behind René Laloux’s surreal, countercultural sci-fi classic.

Nov 11, 2015 — There’s an infectious energy and excitement that radiates from the French actor and filmmaker Mathieu Amalric. This is palpable in his performances on-screen or on the stage, and it was in full force when he visited Criterion recently.