Feb 16, 2021 — Reviews are strong for the biography of the unique theater and film director, comedian and actor.

Jul 25, 2018 — And Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind will finally see the light of day.

Nov 11, 2020 — Claire Denis When Robert Pattinson tested positive for COVID-19 in September, Warner Bros. shut down the production of Matt Reeves’s The Batman for a couple of months. Shooting has since resumed, but Claire Denis’s schedule has been thrown off. She’d...

Oct 13, 2021 — 1. In spite of Melvin Van Peebles’s well-earned reputation for being a provocateur and a disrupter, he was also known for his kindness and generosity toward others. Over the course of working on the Essential Films box set, I observed...

Jan 5, 2004 — “Sometimes I think of my death,” Kurosawa has written: “I think of ceasing to be . . . and it is from these thoughts that Ikiru came.” The story of a man who knows he is going to die, the...

Jun 27, 2022 — A retrospective in Los Angeles celebrates the publication of the director’s first novel.

May 29, 2025 — The rise of fascism upended the childhoods of both filmmakers.

Sep 28, 2021 — Melvin Van Peebles takes aim at Hollywood’s way of representing race in this blistering satire about a white man who wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned Black overnight.

Dec 16, 2020 — Edgar Wright, Sion Sono, Nanfu Wang, Robin Wright, and Ben Wheatley are among the filmmakers premiering new work next month.

Sep 4, 2020 — The festival opens with a winning oddity from Greece and an Italian time-hopping family drama.