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David Hudson

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New York Critics and Indie Spirits

PTA wins one accolade after another, and Peter Hujar’s Day leads the nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

By David Hudson

Present Past 2025

The Academy Museum celebrates film presentation with a series of twenty-four new restorations.

By David Hudson

Gothams, BIFAs, and Top Tens

Even as he carries on winning awards, Jafar Panahi is sentenced to another year in prison.

By David Hudson

Tom Stoppard’s Deep-Hearted Puzzles

One of the most vital playwrights of our era was also an award-winning screenwriter.

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

From First Bloom to Resplendent Decay

This short week brings writing on Wong Kar Wai’s first series and Kubrick’s and Pasolini’s last features.

By David Hudson

The Unsettling Charisma of Udo Kier

Having broken through in over-the-top horror movies, Kier turned in arresting performances in films by Fassbinder, Lars von Trier, and Gus Van Sant.

By David Hudson

November Books

This month brings new collections from Melissa Anderson and A. S. Hamrah and a whole shelf of lives lived with the movies.

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

Talkies

Look who’s talking: Sissy Spacek, Sylvia Chang, Ryan Coogler, Jean Renoir, and Roberto Rossellini.

By David Hudson

Arthur Jafa and Besidedness

To complement his new exhibition, Jafa programs a series of four double bills.

By David Hudson

Sentimental Value Leads the EFA Nominations

Joachim Trier’s family drama stars Stellan Skarsgård as a renowned film director and Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as his estranged daughters.

By David Hudson

Early Mamoru Oshii

Ten years before Ghost in the Shell, the director made one of his most enigmatic and personal works.

By David Hudson

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Exiles and Homecomings

This week: Buñuel revivals, the Rock Hudson centenary, and Mishima’s Japanese premiere.

By David Hudson

Abel Ferrara’s Scene

The filmmaker’s memoir is “messy, manic, and shot through with revelation.”

By David Hudson

Tatsuya Nakadai, Superstar Craftsman

He anchored some of the best films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Okamoto, Naruse, and Teshigahara.

By David Hudson

Oliver Laxe’s Sirât

“It’s the end of the world, but keep dancing,” says Laxe.

By David Hudson

Pasolini, Fellini, and The Silver Book

Olivia Laing’s second novel is set in mid-1970s Rome, where Fellini is shooting Casanova and Pasolini is at work on Salò.

By David Hudson

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The Days Go By

Ira Sachs’s new film opens this week, plus: Joy Williams on Gene Hackman and Claire Atherton’s work with Chantal Akerman.

By David Hudson

Noah Baumbach in LA

In the run-up to the release of Jay Kelly, the American Cinematheque presents a five-film series.

By David Hudson

AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend 2025

It’ll be a packed four days of pre-Code comedy, drama, and spectacle.

By David Hudson

Peter Watkins: Prescience and Punishment

The director of La commune and The War Game shook up viewers with dramatizations historical conflicts and imminent futures.

By David Hudson

Two by Olivier Assayas

BAM presents new restorations of Paris Awakens (1991) and A New Life (1993).

By David Hudson

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Visualizing Dread

A packed batch this week, from die-hards by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Jacques Tourneur to new films by Kathryn Bigelow and Radu Jude.

By David Hudson

Marta Mateus: Under the Sun and Moon

The Portuguese filmmaker is on an informal tour of the U.S, presenting and discussing her work and influences.

By David Hudson

Gotham Nominations: A World About to Snap

One Battle After Another leads this year’s nominations for the Gotham Film Awards.

By David Hudson