The Criterion Collection
Jul 20, 2018 — His work with Akira Kurosawa introduced Japanese cinema to the western world.
Essays
Jul 16, 2018 — In this essay originally published in the New Yorker, Roger Angell hails Ron Shelton’s comic ode to baseball as one of the few movies to capture the essence of the sport.
Jul 16, 2018 — The legendary baseball writer talks about the no-nonsense pleasures of one of the all-time great sports movies and the classic essay he wrote about it.
Jul 10, 2018 — The popular podcast You Must Remember This takes on Kenneth Anger’s movie industry gossip.
Jul 4, 2018 — In his big-screen breakthrough, Sam Shepard delivers tenderness, ferocity, and the quiet expressiveness of a silent film star.
The Daily
Jul 4, 2018 — New issues of Cinema Scope, Film Comment, and Senses of Cinema take stock of the year in cinema—so far.
Jul 4, 2018 — Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch have always been eager to credit the Dutch cinematographer for teaching them about color and light.
The Daily
Jun 28, 2018 — As two festivals in New York survey the best of new Japanese cinema, it’s “Summer in Japan” in Toronto.
The Daily
Jun 22, 2018 — Cinephiles converge in Bologna for nine days of discovery and conversation.
Jun 20, 2018 — Françoise Bonnot, who passed away last week at the age of seventy-eight, was one of the world’s most versatile and seasoned film editors, with a five-decade career that encompassed work with such international auteurs as Costa-Gavras, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Volker Schlöndorff. But...