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Mar 29, 2024 — Notes on the past and future work of Martin Scorsese, Alejo Moguillansky, Pedro Costa, and Alice Rohrwacher.

Jul 13, 2023 — Celine Song’s feature directorial debut, Past Lives, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and was released in theaters by A24. Her play Endlings received its world premiere in 2019 at the American Repertory Theater and had its New...

Nov 24, 2020 — One of the most widely praised documentaries of the past year tells a local story with immediate and global relevance.

Dec 30, 2019 — We asked some of our friends if they had underappreciated films from the past decade that they wanted to champion. Here’s what they chose.

Feb 11, 2019 — Thomas Heise, Stephan Geene, and Lei Lei innovatively reconstruct stories from the not-so-distant past.

Nov 16, 2018 — Studies of China’s past and present are screening at three venues in the city.

Jun 14, 2017 — A tireless explorer of cinema’s discarded past, Bill Morrison brings his unique approach to found-footage filmmaking to his latest project, a documentary about lost reels of nitrate film found in Canada’s Yukon Territory.

Laura Lippman, named one of the one hundred essential crime writers of the past hundred years, has published a wide variety of novels and short stories in the genre, including PI fiction, noir, and cozies. In 2025, she was named...

Nathan Heller, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is at work on a book about the Bay Area and the past fifty years of American life.

David Sterritt is a contributing writer at Cineaste, a film professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the former film critic of the Christian Science Monitor, and past chair of the National Society of Film Critics. His books include...