Apr 10, 2013 Teinosuke Kinugasa’s landmark color film is a visual feast that has finally been vibrantly restored.

Apr 9, 2013 This essay by novelist, playwright, and culture critic Gary Indiana originally appeared in the 1992 book Everything Is Permitted: The Making of “Naked Lunch.” Burroughs’s work tends to affect people like a Rorschach test. It separates cultural conservatives from avant-gardists,...

Apr 9, 2013 This review by film critic Janet Maslin originally appeared in the December 27, 1991, edition of the New York Times, and appears by permission of the author. Naked Lunch, adapted by the dauntless David Cronenberg from William S. Burroughs’s 1959...

Apr 9, 2013 David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs: it was a meeting of the mutant minds years in the making.

Roger Ebert on Ozu

Short Takes

Apr 5, 2013 We will miss our friend Roger Ebert, who died yesterday at age seventy. In honor of this very special man and most beloved and influential of film critics, we would like to share with you the first four minutes of...

Mar 29, 2013 Did You See This?• A new column on the art of the movie poster • The greatest British film ever made? • Mapping Kubrick’s world • Make your own Monsoon Wedding. • Michael Sragow looks back and ahead. • A...

Mar 29, 2013 When the world’s favorite comedian asked his audience to see him as a sociopathic serial killer, he was venturing where cinema had barely dared to tread.

Prime Rohmer

In Theaters

Mar 28, 2013 Repertory PicksAs part of its retrospective And God Created Jean-Louis Trintignant, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley is showing a 35 mm print of Eric Rohmer’s marvelous character study My Night at Maud’s on March 29. One of Rohmer’s effortlessly...

Mar 26, 2013 Charlie Chaplin manages to make a ruthless murderer likable in his brilliant satire of middle-class morality.

Mar 25, 2013 Robert Bresson’s prison-break story is a tale of religious faith and a work of striking purity.

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