The Intern

The Criterion Closet’s very first guest stops by the Mobile Closet at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he examines the technical brilliance of a scene in Notorious, shares why he feels a kinship with Wes Anderson, and talks about...

Nataleah Hunter-Young is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and international programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival, responsible for feature selections from Africa and Arab West Asia.

Lizzie Francke has written about film for Sight & Sound and the Guardian and is the author of Script Girls: Women Screenwriters in Hollywood. From 1997-2001, she was the Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She now works...

Apr 29, 2026 — Film at Lincoln Center’s thirteen-film series will feature an evening with the man himself.

Aug 19, 2025 — This month’s programming celebrates the centenary of the great American filmmaker Robert Altman, the career of Oscar-winning actor Jodie Foster, and much more.

Jun 17, 2025 — This July, find love under the sun with our Summer Romances collection and flirt with the seductive dangers of Miami’s most thrilling neonoirs.

Mar 24, 2025 — At the turn of the millennium, a loose collective of filmmakers—including Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg—made a splash with a provocative manifesto and a wave of audacious movies shot on digital video.

Nov 13, 2024 — Spend the holiday season with the Pope of Trash, the Master of Suspense, MTV Productions’s turn-of-the-century thrills, and Columbia Pictures’s pre-Code button-pushers.

Jul 17, 2024 — This month, we’re celebrating the expansive, archetype-exploding films of Paul Thomas Anderson, as well as the career of his frequent collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Feb 26, 2024 — The Berlinale’s top award went to Dahomey on an evening that has sparked heated debate.