Apr 28, 2023 — This week’s highlights whiplash from a vibrant club scene to the chaotic final days of the Ceaușescu regime, hitting several disparate points in between.

Apr 17, 2024 — Three of this month’s programs blast back to the turbulent midcentury moment when old Hollywood gave way to something new.

Jun 11, 2021 — “The whole world is dying of panicky fright.” The opening on-screen text of Todd Haynes’s Poison promises an unsettled experience. Yet these words also might as well be predicting the puritanical response to the film that erupted from conservative quarters. After winning...

May 28, 2020 — Check out what’s in store next month on our streaming service!

Jun 17, 2019 — Performances I can’t remember a time in my childhood when I saw a grown-up cry. It wasn’t that the elders around me were all that even-tempered; most of them were no less capable of lashing out in anger or indignation...

Aug 16, 2018 — The Oscar-winning director talks about drawing inspiration from the intimacy and naturalism of the documentary masterpiece Chronicle of a Summer.

Mar 26, 2018 — In a new episode of Observations on Film Art, now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck, professor David Bordwell talks about Wong Kar-wai’s innovative use of narrative structure in Chungking Express.

Nov 5, 2014 — A review of the American auteur’s posthumously published novel

Apr 29, 2025 — In this exuberant and moving portrait of a Brooklyn sex worker, Sean Baker draws on themes he has explored throughout his career, depicting the workaday grind of twenty-first-century American existence with biting humor and clear-eyed humanity.

Jan 29, 2024 — Jurors, audiences, and critics seem to agree that 2024 is off to a promising start.