David Hudson

SXSW and Slamdance unveil full lineups, and the Berlinale fills out its Forum, Panorama, Generation, and Classics programs.

There’s a Visconti retrospective on in Vienna, a restored Comencini in New York, and films by Antonioni, Olmi, and Bertolucci will screen at Harvard.

The festival lines up its Forum Special and celebrates forty years of the Teddy Award.

Let’s catch up with some of the most notable best-of-2025 listing and polling.

This week: Conversations with Lav Diaz, Mira Nair, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

The director of some of the bleakest films ever made once claimed all they were all comedies—except one.

We can look forward to new films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, David Fincher, Greta Gerwig, Lee Chang-dong, Ulrike Ottinger, and many, many more.

One of France’s biggest stars took the world by storm before her reputation took a turn.

Head into the holidays with roundtables to watch, articles to read, and podcasts to listen to.

Kleber Mendonça Filho programs a series of films that have informed his slow-burning thriller.

This week: Kubrick conspiracies, Malickian movies, Spike Lee’s musical moments, and a talk with Rebecca Hall.

Checking in on lists of the best films, performances, scenes, scores, restorations, and more.

At year’s end, we’re reading about the partnership and breakup of Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann—and much more.

An amiable actor, Reiner launched his directorial career with a seven-film winning streak.

This week: Bi Gan, Radu Jude, a new Film Quarterly, and of course, more year-end lists and polls.

Charli XCX stars in three of them, and another highlight is a restored documentary by the late William Greaves.

To celebrate the centennial of Battleship Potemkin, the Austrian Film Museum presents a near-complete retrospective.

One Battle After Another carries on plowing through the season while Hollywood braces for “a seismic reorganization.”

BAM presents These Encounters of Theirs on 35 mm, and Pedro Costa screens and discusses movies in Copenhagen.

New issues of Cineaste and Found Footage Magazine are among this week’s highlights.

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

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

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

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