From Karkhe to Rhein

Oct 30, 2026 — As we remember Patrick Stewart and Peter Medak, the week’s highlights include writing on Agnès Varda, Rosa von Praunheim, and plenty of scary movies.

Oct 28, 2026 — Marine Atlan, Arie and Chuko Esiri, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Mike Leigh, and Olivia Wilde get an early awards-season boost.

Oct 27, 2026 — A retrospective in London spans not only a raucous oeuvre but also the history of postwar Japan.

Oct 26, 2026 — The Tokyo International Film Festival will present a mix of classics, premieres, and some of the most talked-about films of the year.

Oct 23, 2026 — Classics of highway horror, like Road Games, The Appointment, and Race with the Devil, present the open road as a dangerous landscape and automobiles as single-minded killing machines.

Apr 22, 2026 — “The wig has a name. The wig’s name is Pam.”I was not even a little surprised to hear that Dallas-born filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary had given a name to the bouncy brown bob she wears in her film The Giverny Document...

Apr 21, 2026 — Since its debut in 2024 at the New York Film Festival, the Criterion Mobile Closet has made wildly successful stops in cities across the United States and Canada. For our first trip this year, in partnership with PAM CUT, Criterion...

Apr 6, 2026 — New York’s Film Forum screens thirteen features by the master of urbane comedy.

Feb 25, 2026 — The director of Civic and Now, Hear Me Good talks about how his experience as a first-generation Caribbean American and his love of Chantal Akerman’s short La chambre have influenced his work.

Feb 6, 2026 — There’s an AI-driven reconstruction of The Magnificent Ambersons underway, a restoration of Michael Almereyda’s Nadia in theaters—and more.