The Dead

Jun 10, 2024 — The Canadian filmmaker and artist reflects on his award-winning 1996 breakthrough, a work of voluptuous style and fierce political commitment that remains a landmark of New Queer Cinema.

Feb 28, 2023 — The Arsenal in Berlin presents the first retrospective in Germany dedicated to the “master of poetic realism.”

Nov 15, 2022 — A box-office success that buoyed Hong Kong’s beleaguered movie industry in the early 2000s, this suite of crime films combines narrative intricacy and moral complexity with an abundance of megastar charisma.

Sep 7, 2018 — For the Criterion Channel original series Art-House America, now playing on FilmStruck, we recently visited the Texas Theatre in Dallas, a venue that became infamous as the site where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and now hosts a variety of imaginative...

May 21, 2018 — Movies you may not care about are inspiring some writing you won’t want to ignore.

May 9, 2018 — “One of the best Welles documentaries” makes the case for the director as a brilliant graphic artist.

Apr 19, 2018 — With a mix of improvisation, balletic physicality, and slapstick humor, Hollywood master Leo McCarey crafted the most sublime of screwball comedies.

Jan 11, 2017 — A revelatory restoration of Lewis Milestone’s underappreciated newsroom comedy accentuates the film’s punchy rhythms and breakneck banter.

Mar 16, 2015 — Director and star Robert Montgomery suffuses his moody 1947 New Mexico–set noir with palpable postwar anxiety and expressive fatalism.

Jan 21, 2009 — It’s a clichéd truism that moviemaking is a collaborative art. Of course it is, and there are dozens, if not hundreds, of examples of directors working time and again with the same crew members, trusted writers, cameramen, production designers, editors,...