David Hudson

Sorting through critics’ most-anticipated titles, catching up with interviews and profiles, and more.

We begin with the Marilyn Monroe centenary and move on to thrillers and collections of poetry and critical essays.

Film Comment relaunches, Richard Kelly writes, Lynne Ramsay prepares, and in 1976, Roberto Rossellini talked.

Jean Rouch said they created “a new cinematographic language,” and a retrospective touring North America begins in Toronto.

Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky opens the New York African Film Festival and screens as part of Seattle’s African Pictures program.

The nation’s largest silent film festival returns to the newly renovated Castro Theatre.

L’Alliance New York presents a series of films by a director ripe for discovery in the U.S.

A new month begins with a Visconti restoration, a new issue of Senses of Cinema, and a deep backgrounder on Backrooms.

The festival presents new work by Isabel Sandoval, Kogonada, Ildikó Enyedi, and more.

Film at Lincoln Center’s thirteen-film series will feature an evening with the man himself.

Opening with Jane Fonda’s tribute to Robert Redford, this year’s edition features several world premieres of new restorations.

The festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film will roll out across five New York venues.

Great writing this week on Maurice Pialat, Paul Newman, Johnnie To, Mark Fisher, and wrestlers.

Over the next four days, the Museum of the Moving Image will be showcasing a wide range of “adventurous new cinema.”

Boots Riley and Olivia Wilde both have two films at this year’s edition of New England’s largest film festival.

From new titles on the silent era and Hollywood’s Golden Age to forthcoming novels and memoirs, this month offers something for every reader.

For half a century, she was, as Emmanuel Macron put it, “a constant presence in French cinema.”

So many Hamlets! Plus Radley Metzger, Marco Bellocchio, and Tilda Swinton and Orbital.

Dozens of filmmakers will attend the third edition of the American Cinematheque’s documentary festival.

The festival presents winners of top prizes in Rotterdam and Locarno as well as highlights from Cannes and Berlin.

New films from Radu Jude, Clio Barnard, Lisandro Alonso, and Alain Cavalier are headed to Cannes.

The Cannes sidebar spotlights first and second features from up-and-coming filmmakers.

Jia Zhang-Ke and Steven Soderbergh experiment with AI, plus: Jim Jarmusch, Tina Aumont, and Elvira Notari.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Asghar Farhadi, Paweł Pawlikowski, Na Hong-jin, Cristian Mungiu, and Ira Sachs are headed into the main competition.