On the Line

Jul 14, 2020 — Bruce Lee seemed born to be on-screen. At three months old, he appeared as an infant in a Hong Kong movie called Golden Gate Girl (1941). After he died suddenly of cerebral edema in 1973 at the age of thirty-two,...

Jun 23, 2020 — In Céline Sciamma’s unabashedly romantic and fiercely political film Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), two women fall in love and set each other free, if for only a few glorious days or weeks. It is one of the...

May 27, 2020 — Walking, like breathing, is something we do without thinking, an activity so commonplace that pedestrian has as its second meaning uninspired, ordinary, dull. Movies, however, reveal this action as more than just the original mode of getting from here to...

May 18, 2020 — The beloved stalwart of the Seattle filmmaking community and accomplished director of high-profile television series was only fifty-four.

May 7, 2020 — A new memoir occasions a couple of profiles in which the actor spins a few tales many of us may find challenging to deal with.

May 4, 2020 — A new 976-page biography delves into the life and work of an ultimately unknowable man.

May 1, 2020 — Everyone’s eager to make, show, and watch movies in theaters again. In the meantime, here’s plenty to see, hear, and read at home.

Feb 19, 2020 — The Forum’s magazine and the new artistic director’s blog help make the Berlinale experience freely accessible from anywhere in the world.

Feb 11, 2020 — How might four history-making Oscars impact movies from here on out?

Feb 3, 2020 — Nearly half of the awards presented over the weekend went to female filmmakers.