The Man

Nov 22, 2018 — Family movies, Wellesian moments, and the female gaze are among this week’s highlights.

Aug 31, 2018 — And a pillar of American film criticism falls.

Aug 13, 2018 — Looking back on the highlights of the seventy-first edition.

Jul 10, 2018 — The popular podcast You Must Remember This takes on Kenneth Anger’s movie industry gossip.

May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”

Oct 12, 2017 — Tonight, Griffin Dunne will be at the Walter Reade Theater to take part in a Q&A following a screening of the documentary he’s made about his aunt, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. The New York Film Festival will...

Jul 14, 2017 — In a video essay on our release of Robert Bresson’s final film, scholar James Quandt explores some of the formal elements that make the master’s vision of moral corruption so transfixing.

Jul 14, 2016 — On what would have been the director’s ninety-eighth birthday, we revisit a selection of essays, photo galleries, and videos that explore his iconic oeuvre.

Dec 9, 2014 — Liliana Cavani’s tale of the sadomasochistic bond between an ex-SS officer and a former concentration camp prisoner is a transgressive take on history and fascism.

May 5, 2014 — The celebrated divot points manfully toward the crest of the next hill, and the next, and the next, and to the horizon after that. Always forward! Into the sunset! Kirk Douglas is on the move: a wagon train of grimace,...