American History

Feb 4, 2019 — All four of this year’s top prizewinners have been directed or codirected by women.

Jan 30, 2019 — An exhibition, a film series, and of course, If Beale Street Could Talk are markers of heightened interest in the writer, activist, and cinephile.

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...

Jan 25, 2019 — This week features major new resource on The Magnificent Ambersons, Godard’s allusions, and Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s multimedia extravaganza.

Jan 23, 2019 — Checking in on how the nominees are currently faring with critics and awards prognosticators.

Jan 22, 2019 — The Forum will also launch new films by Dan Sallitt, Heinz Emigholz, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell, and Thomas Heise.

Jan 22, 2019 — Elaine May is a writer and filmmaker and actor and improviser, but beyond that, she is an artist whose career-long quest for truth has driven her to create work that has taken many forms but always sought to cast aside...

Jan 15, 2019 — In Notorious (1946), love assumes different shapes and presentations—as a wound, a weapon, a promise, a curse. For Ingrid Bergman as the lusciously complex and raw-nerved Alicia Huberman, it’s all these things. As the film begins, Alicia is on the...

Jan 8, 2019 — A few lingering observations on the films of 2018 from Slate’s Movie Club, the New York Times, and more.

Dec 18, 2018 — Whatever your cinephilic interest—cinematography, acting, criticism—there’ll likely be a new book to take with you into the holidays.