Sometimes in April

Dec 16, 2022 — This week: Molly Ringwald and Caroline Champetier on Godard, interviews with Tony Kushner and Park Chan-wook, and the new Brooklyn Rail.

Mar 27, 2020 — Following a briefing on the crisis, we turn to a few items that might help us take our minds off it.

Feb 13, 2018 — Lucrecia Martel was at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year not only to present Zama but also to deliver a masterclass. Giovanni Marchini Camia was there, and reports for Filmmaker: To illustrate her conception of mise en scène, Martel...

Jan 26, 2021 — As awards season picks up its pace, we have news, too, from France and New York.

Mar 25, 2024 — Retrospectives in London and Hong Kong and a screening in Ghent are devoted to the work of the Spanish director.

Jan 3, 2018 — Ingmar Bergman was born on July 14, 1918, and exhibitions and film series celebrating the hundredth anniversary are already underway. Update, 1/5: Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, a Janus Films retrospective of twenty-four works, will open at New York’s Film Forum on...

Apr 21, 2009 — Fifty years ago today . . . Godard wrote this New Wave battle cry for the April 22, 1959, issue of the French journal Arts, on the news of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows being selected to represent France at...

Mar 14, 2025 — Spend the weekend with Buñuel, Pasolini, Sarah Maldoror, Todd Solondz, and Pedro Almodóvar.

Apr 25, 2023 — Steve McQueen’s monumental, five-film portrait of London’s West Indian community is a howl of endorsement for political resistance and a vivid indictment of institutional malaise.

Apr 11, 2023 — Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Kiyoshi Kurosawa praise Somai as a major influence, and Japan Society will present the first North American retrospective.