The King

Sep 29, 2021 — Luchino Visconti’s scandalous antifascist melodrama envisions the liquidation of desire with expressionistic panache.

Apr 6, 2021 — The new issue spotlights some of the most notable films from this year’s Berlinale—and more.

Aug 25, 2020 — The NYFF presents its inaugural Currents lineup, and the Berlinale’s acting awards are going gender-neutral.

Jun 29, 2020 — The new issue ranges from experimental nonfiction to a Pixar feature, from a ten-screen installation to Watchmen.

Oct 3, 2019 — By the time Charlie Chaplin was making The Circus, from 1925 into 1928, his production company was a smooth-running organization. Numerous problems plagued the comic during the shoot—scratches on the first month of rushes, a fire that damaged the studio...

Sep 19, 2019 — Reteaming with Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish star delivers a performance all the more powerful for its restraint.

Mar 13, 2019 — Women’s stories are central to five of the six top prize winners.

Aug 23, 2011 — Intimidation: The Weird Dream MakerImpassioned and dedicated craftsman of some of Japanese cinema’s biggest box-office successes and most eccentric off-genre sorties, longtime Nikkatsu studios mainstay Koreyoshi Kurahara (1927–2002) was a filmmaker with two opposite yet inseparable signature points of view....

Sep 26, 2025 — One of the most provocative subgenres of 1970s exploitation cinema, nunsploitation explores the collision of sex and religious dogma through stories of desperately horny women of the cloth.

Apr 18, 2025 — When Mayor John Lindsay made it easier for filmmakers to shoot on location in New York City, he paved the way for a string of movies that captured the troubled metropolis in the late sixties and early seventies.