David Hudson

We’re reading about Wes Anderson and David Cronenberg and looking forward to books on David Lynch and Pedro Almodóvar.

Rose Byrne stars as a frazzled therapist taking on a relentless string of crises.

We’re sampling new issues of Notebook, Senses of Cinema, and 032c and reading about Eisenstein and Charlotte Zwerin.

In the run-up to the forty-first edition, critics have been writing up lists of their most-anticipated films.

While Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez takes the lead, the Academy has popped a few surprises.

New films by Richard Linklater, Bong Joon Ho, Radu Jude, and Lucile Hadžihalilović are set for the seventy-fifth edition.

Lynchian may be impossible to define, but you know it when you see it.

Featured this week are Frank Capra, Michael Roemer, John Ford, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Long considered lost, Fujisawa’s Bye Bye Love screens at Metrograph with two Teshigahara classics.

Edward Berger’s improbably entertaining follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) scores twelve.

There’s a Delphine Seyrig retrospective on in New York and another will open at the Harvard Film Archive on Friday.

Toronto’s retrospective showcases an oeuvre that ranges from Fists in the Pocket (1965) to Kidnapped (2023).

This week: Eisenstein’s diaries, Godard’s artworks, Mike Leigh’s characters, and Sidney Poitier’s late work.

MoMA’s festival of film preservation spotlights films from around the world, ranging from the silent era through the 1980s.

We’re looking forward to new work from Richard Linklater, Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Reichardt, Christian Petzold, Chloé Zhao, Sebastián Lelio, and many other filmmakers.

Retrospectives showcasing new restorations are on in Chicago and Los Angeles, and another is heading to New York.

Sunday night’s big winners include The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, and Flow.

We spent the holidays reading about Claude Sautet, Pascal Plante, and Christian Marclay.

Along with conversations with Jem Cohen and Johnnie To, the week brings fresh angles on the year that was.

One of history’s darkest chapters becomes a deeply personal experience in this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.

The bulk of this year’s selections comes from a three-decade stretch from the early 1970s to the late ’90s.

Sundance, Rotterdam, and Berlin roll out more lineups for what promises to be a season of uncertainty.

News, reviews, and recommendations featuring Paul Schrader, Cher, Terrence Malick, and more.

The week’s offered fine writing on Elaine May, Robert Siodmak and Ella Raines, and Christopher Nolan’s turning-point movie.