The Criterion Collection
May 24, 2018 — Let the celebrations begin with a series in New York, a season in London, and a new restoration.
The Daily
Feb 20, 2018 — Get Out director Jordan Peele tells the Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Galloway that he’s currently writing and plans to direct his next film later this year. “One thing I know is that this is genre; and playing around with the thriller,...
The Daily
Oct 12, 2017 — “In my undergraduate years, I watched three films almost every day,” Wang Bing, director most recently of the Golden Leopard-winning Mrs. Fang, tells Zoe Meng Jiang. “I’m from the same generation as the Sixth Generation filmmakers like Wang Xiaoshuai and...
The Daily
Aug 12, 2017 — At Shadowplay, David Cairns has posted David Melville Wingrove’s tribute to Conchita Montenegro, whose career in theater and film took her around the world from the late 1920s through the mid-40s. Her “triumphant final film” would be the 1944 Spanish...
Dec 7, 2010 — In 1981, it seemed to me that a new era of fantastic cinema was upon us.
Oct 16, 2006 — Screenwriter Carlos Cuarón delves into the character played by Luis De Icaza.
Essays
Dec 3, 1990 — Over the years I have had a recurrent nightmare in which I am summoned to a large, unfamiliar building in a middle-European satellite country (Bulgaria, perhaps) to tell the idea of Annie Hall to the Bulgarian Minister of Green Lights,...
Mar 16, 2015 — Director and star Robert Montgomery suffuses his moody 1947 New Mexico–set noir with palpable postwar anxiety and expressive fatalism.
May 16, 2019 — All week long, writers have been reminding us that there was more to Doris Day than sweet sunshine.
The Daily
Aug 31, 2020 — Fans around the world remember an accomplished actor, a genuine movie star, and a generous role model.