Western

Oct 5, 2016 — Rock critic Robert Christgau examines the evocative use of three early Leonard Cohen songs in Robert Altman’s brilliant revisionist western.

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.

Rebecca Bengal is a writer born in western North Carolina and the author of the collection Strange Hours. Her stories, essays, and interviews have been published by the Paris Review, Aperture, the Guardian, the New Yorker, and Oxford American.

Emma Ríos is a comic book creator based in A Coruña, Spain. A former architect, she has been working full-time on comics for nearly six years, first at Boom! Studios, then at Marvel Comics, and now at Image Comics. Her...

Paul Coates is a professor emeritus of film studies at Western University, Ontario. Previously, he taught at Georgia, McGill, and Aberdeen, and his books include The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon’s Gaze (1991), Lucid Dreams: The Cinema...

Oct 9, 2026 — Hal Ashby nods to Stanley Kubrick, Yasmina Price presents a dossier on Kevin Jerome Everson, and Axelle Ropert plays a game.

Oct 6, 2026 — This week is packed with festival openings, special screenings, series, and retrospectives.

Sep 30, 2026 — The Bhutanese director and leading Tibetan Buddhist teacher talks about his wide range of aesthetic influences, his experience working with Bernardo Bertolucci, and film’s connection to meditation.

Sep 23, 2026 — Michael Mann, M. Night Shyamalan, James Gray, Robert Eggers, and Lance Oppenheim are among the many directors who will be taking questions.

Sep 18, 2026 — We’re remembering Patricio Guzmán and spotlighting new writing on Sarah Maldoror, Tsui Hark, and the Up series.