Manifesto

Nov 14, 2018 — The history of Hollywood is the focus of this round, but its reach also extends well beyond.

Aug 6, 2018 — The new half-hour series lives up to the promise of his unclassifiable debut feature.

Jun 7, 2018 — The Ukraine-based filmmaker saw her work lauded and banned.

May 24, 2018 — Let the celebrations begin with a series in New York, a season in London, and a new restoration.

Feb 24, 2018 — New York. The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have announced the complete lineup for the forty-seventh New Directors/New Films festival, opening on March 28 with Stephen Loveridge’s Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. and closing on April 8 with...

Jan 22, 2018 — Today, we celebrate Jim Jarmusch’s birthday with a look back at some of the writing we’ve published on his films over the years.

Dec 21, 2017 — With D. A. Pennebaker’s groundbreaking concert film, rock music solidified its status as a universal language.

Oct 11, 2017 — The Literary Hub is running excerpts from A Dance with Fred Astaire in which Jonas Mekas recalls his encounters with Anaïs Nin, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, and Aldous Huxley. Stan Brakhage (image above) wrote Metaphors on Vision in 1963, putting...

Oct 4, 2017 — Starting today, and on through October 15, the sixty-first BFI London Film Festival will present over 240 features—premieres, revivals, and hand-picked highlights from the year’s festival calendar so far—and nearly 130 short films. Our guide here won’t—can’t—be complete, but with...

Oct 1, 2017 — “Since I saw Faces Places at its premiere at Cannes in May, [Agnès] Varda’s latest documentary has cemented itself on my running list of the year’s best titles,” writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. “Made with the French...