2017

Dec 3, 2018 — True Stories, David Byrne’s 1986 paean to American eccentricity and ordinariness, called to me from the shelves of a video store in Austin, Texas. Subtitled “A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil, Texas,” True Stories is not “true”...

Nov 29, 2018 — First Reformed, Eighth Grade, Roma, and The Rider emerge as early favorites.

Nov 16, 2018 — Studies of China’s past and present are screening at three venues in the city.

Oct 31, 2018 — The nominations for the British Independent Film Awards and the Louis Delluc Prize are out.

Oct 19, 2018 — Two outstanding podcasts return, and every one of Hong Sangsoo’s features is revisited.

Oct 19, 2018 — Here’s a taste of what the critics have been saying about the nominees.

Oct 2, 2018 — The past weighs heavily on the present in Long Day’s Journey into Night, Ash Is Purest White, and A Family Tour.

Sep 24, 2018 — All four finalists in the running for Britain’s best-known art award work with moving images.

Sep 14, 2018 — Agnès Varda returns to Interview, David Lynch talks about his art, and more.

Sep 9, 2018 — Under the Influence Whether he’s exploring the dynamics of a family in crisis or putting his own spin on the body horror genre, Norwegian director Joachim Trier always returns to the subjective experience of time and memory as a central...