Tour de Force

Oct 29, 2019 — Check out what’s in store next month on our streaming service!

Oct 7, 2019 — Critics respond to the New York Film Festival’s selection of new moving image art.

Aug 14, 2019 — There is a scene in Henry King’s State Fair (1933) that ranks among the most poetic moments in all of 1930s American cinema. There is not much to it, just a family driving through the dusk in their rattling pickup...

Aug 7, 2019 — The last two days have seen an avalanche of titles filling up the fall festival lineups.

Jul 18, 2019 — With its picturesque Provençal village, florid theatrical dialogue, and cast of familiar southern-French actors, dominated by the formidable Raimu, The Baker’s Wife is classic Marcel Pagnol territory. In 1938, when the film was released, the feted author and playwright was...

Jan 23, 2019 — Under the Influence With his latest movie, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville trained his focus on one of cinema history’s most outsize personalities. The film—released just months after Neville’s Fred Rogers profile Won’t You...

Dec 21, 2018 — New issues of Senses of Cinema and cléo this week, but also healthy seasonal doses of anxiety and lamentation.

Sep 11, 2018 — There is a brief, nearly throwaway scene early in Olivier Assayas’s Cold Water (1994) that testifies to the transcultural power of rock and roll. In an apartment outside Paris in 1972, we see two teenage brothers wrestling over a portable...

Sep 3, 2018 — Here’s how the competition is shaping up so far.

Aug 16, 2018 — Crazy Rich Asians aims to prove that a major release with a majority Asian cast can fly at the box office.