The Best of Times

Oct 27, 2020 — A good number of film publications are reminding us that this is the season for terrifying ourselves.

Aug 11, 2020 — Gina Prince-Bythewood, Pedro Almodóvar, Ellen Kuras, and Paolo Sorrentino are among the filmmakers who have lined up projects to take on as soon as it’s safe.

Apr 20, 2020 — This month sees new books by and about Woody Allen, Miranda July, and Michael Snow as well as fresh translations and collections of criticism.

Dec 9, 2019 — Hollywood’s foreign press and critics’ groups across the nation pick their favorites of 2019.

Jul 11, 2019 — The great Italian actress worked with Truffaut, Fellini, Antonioni, Losey, Dassin, Bava, and Robert Wise.

Jul 1, 2019 — Truffaut, Melville, and Jean Epstein open this month’s round of reviews and discussions of the latest noteworthy publications.

Jan 29, 2019 — In the Heat of the Night (1967) opens with an air of mystery, of outsiderness winding its way into the small town of Sparta, Mississippi, a place that right away seems heavy with a sense of what belongs and what...

Aug 27, 2018 — Theater and movie audiences laughed at his one-liners throughout the 1960s and ’70s.

Jul 25, 2018 — And Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind will finally see the light of day.

Jul 7, 2018 — The writer and director lived a full and robust life both before and after his monumental Shoah.