The Hindenburg

May 28, 2018 — Alan Bean, one of twelve astronauts to leave their footprints on the moon, left us last weekend at the age of eighty-six.

May 25, 2018 — Sloane Crosley is the author of the New York Times best-selling essay collections I Was Told There’d Be Cake, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor; How Did You Get This Number; and the novel The Clasp. A...

May 4, 2018 — What do we mean when we say a narrative film is poetic? The answer lies in this visionary western from director Jim Jarmusch.

May 3, 2018 — Sebastián Lelio is a Chilean filmmaker based in Berlin. His fifth feature film, A Fantastic Woman, won the 2018 Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Independent Spirit Award for best international film. It premiered in main competition at...

May 3, 2018 — Depth, beauty, curiosity—what gave luminous French star Danielle Darrieux staying power across eight decades? Critic Farran Smith Nehme looks for the answer in two films from opposite ends of her career.

Apr 24, 2018 — Heads-up: My Criterion is going offline temporarily at the end of the month. We’ll let you know when it comes back, new and improved, later this year.

Apr 20, 2018 — Jim Jarmusch filmed Neil Young recording the score for his 1995 revisionist western. Watch a bit of the never-released footage here.

Apr 18, 2018 — Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom plays in a complete retrospective of the director’s work in Fort Collins, Colorado, this weekend.

Apr 12, 2018 — Nagisa Oshima followed up his succès de scandale In the Realm of the Senses with this Cannes award–winning ghost story, playing this week at the Austin Film Society.

Apr 5, 2018 — In celebration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s centennial year, the Bryn Mawr Film Institute presents one of the director’s most masterful thrillers.