From Karkhe to Rhein

Dec 19, 2017 — Reese Witherspoon looks back on how she perfected the details of her performance as a high-school overachiever in Alexander Payne’s Election.

Nov 9, 2017 — Big Theater Tomorrow night, the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will spool up a 35 mm print of Max Ophuls’s The Earrings of Madame de . . . (1953), a film selected by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, who will...

Nov 2, 2017 — Two leading figures in American independent cinema talk about the challenges of bringing their visions to life on shoestring budgets.

Oct 24, 2017 — New York. The Anthology Film Archives’ series Boxing on Film: Part 2 is on through October 31, and William Klein’s Muhammad Ali, The Greatest (1974), screening once more on Saturday, “evades fight footage and instead alights upon the press appearances...

Oct 12, 2017 — The Roxy Theater in Missoula, Montana, pays tribute to one of the masters of body horror with a screening of the 1981 film Scanners.

Oct 11, 2017 — In his final completed feature, Orson Welles reflects on making Othello and the enduring eminence of Shakespeare.

Sep 27, 2017 — In a remarkably candid new documentary, David Lynch opens the doors to his private world and gives fans a glimpse of his creative process.

Aug 3, 2017 — Pedro Almodóvar’s pitch-black comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, his first film to earn an Oscar nomination, plays in Denver this Saturday and next Monday.

Jul 28, 2017 — One of the wittiest chroniclers of modern American life, Albert Brooks talks with filmmaker Robert Weide about how he arrived at the concept for Lost in America. Also: a few words from James L. Brooks.

Jul 6, 2017 — Our very first DVD edition, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece Grand Illusion, streams on the Criterion Channel in celebration of the film’s eightieth anniversary.