A Year of School

Mar 3, 2025 — His range was astounding, and yet every performance was immediately recognizable as uniquely his.

Jan 21, 2025 — Lynchian may be impossible to define, but you know it when you see it.

Sep 24, 2024 — Films by Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Rungano Nyoni screen in the Metrograph series.

May 22, 2024 — Critics in Cannes warmly welcome Rumours, Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, and Eephus.

Apr 10, 2024 — Heading into its final weekend, the festival presents new work from Singapore, Serbia, Brazil, China, Iran, Georgia, and Taiwan.

Oct 19, 2023 — The UK celebrates Powell and Pressburger, two writers tune into Robert Bresson, and The Exorcist turns fifty.

Aug 22, 2023 — In 1962, the young Bo Widerberg threw a grenade into the complacent waters of Swedish cinema. It came in the form of four articles in the evening newspaper Expressen—followed by a book version titled Vision in 
Swedish Film—in which Widerberg...

Aug 11, 2023 — Back in the early 1980s, people were still trying to figure hip-hop out.Now in its fiftieth year, this cultural movement built by DJs, rappers, break dancers, and graffiti writers began in New York, spreading from the South Bronx to the...

Jul 19, 2023 — This month we’re reading Pasolini, Chris Marker, Christian Petzold, Lorenza Mazzetti, Derek Jarman, and more.

Jan 19, 2023 — Critics list their most-anticipated films as Sundance opens with Rotterdam and Berlin hot on its heels.