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Study in Color and Black and White

Jan 26, 2023 This great director from the golden age of Mexican cinema drew upon a wide range of styles to explore the conflict between tradition and modernity.

July Books

The Daily

Jul 21, 2025 Summer offers new biographies and memoirs, expansively big ideas, and more than a few curious fictions.

Feb 18, 2025 HIghlights this month include a look back at the Dogme 95 movement, a showcase of great supporting performances, and spotlights on directors Michael Mann, Alain Guiraudie, and Lee Chang-dong.

Aug 10, 2023 “You’re the company I waited so long for,” Dr. Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) says to her three Self Replicating Automatons in Teknolust (2002), artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s sci-fi farce about a scientist’s well-meaning pursuit of artificial life. Stone’s color-coded clones...

Jan 19, 2022 The competition will premiere new work from Hong Sangsoo, Claire Denis, Ursula Meier, Denis Côté, Ulrich Seidl, and Paolo Taviani.

Sep 3, 2021 In the thirty-fifth edition of the Italian festival dedicated to restored films, an eclectic lineup underscores the transportive physicality of cinema after a long year stuck at home.

Mar 6, 2020 Above photo: © Chuck Stewart Photography, LLCIn America, black musical genius has never been in short supply, though it hasn’t always been recognized or fairly compensated. Even a casual glance at the résumé of formally trained composer, producer, and arranger...

Apr 20, 2018 Let’s catch up with the new issue of cléo journal, this one dedicated entirely to the work of Agnès Varda. When the journal launched five years ago, it took its name from Varda’s 1962 classic, Cléo from 5 to 7....

Aug 12, 2017 At Shadowplay, David Cairns has posted David Melville Wingrove’s tribute to Conchita Montenegro, whose career in theater and film took her around the world from the late 1920s through the mid-40s. Her “triumphant final film” would be the 1944 Spanish...

Kwaidan

Essays

Oct 9, 2000 One of the most meticulously crafted supernatural fantasy films ever made, Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (1964) is also one of the most unusual. While such classic black and white chillers as The Uninvited, The Innocents and The Haunting teasingly speculate on...

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