45 Years

Jan 22, 2021 — List-topping westerns, color-drenched musicals, and rule-breaking documentaries are in the news this week.

Sep 1, 2020 — It’s not impossible to be a lazy, shrug-it-off filmmaker, just as it isn’t to be a lazy painter or novelist, or, more to the point, a lazy comic artist, drawing each picture merely once and then moving on. (You could...

Aug 20, 2018 — A haven for punks and drifters, 1980s downtown New York is captured in all its grit and romance in Susan Seidelman’s Palme d’Or–nominated debut feature.

May 18, 2018 — And Sergei Loznitsa wins the best director award for Donbass.

May 14, 2018 — A fable, a social critique, and a frontrunner for the top prize.

May 14, 2018 — A mystery, a road movie, and a tribute to the late Abbas Kiarostami.

May 14, 2018 — A dance party gets way, way out of hand.

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

May 12, 2018 — An urgent dispatch from the conflict in eastern Ukraine is winning plaudits from critics.

Apr 8, 2018 — Saige Walton and Nadine Boljkovac introduce the dossier “Materializing Absence” in the new issue of Screening the Past: “We start from the central premise that absence in screen media is not ‘nothing’—that absence itself is always invested with material attributes....