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David Hudson

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Sundance Lines Up 2024

Nearly half of the films premiering in January will come from first-time directors, but there’ll also be new work from Steven Soderbergh and Richard Linklater.

By David Hudson

Indie Spirit Nominations

American Fiction, May December, and Past Lives lead with five each, and Showing Up has already won the Robert Altman Award.

By David Hudson

101 Gems and More of the Best of 2023

While 2023 is sorted, Sight and Sound invites critics and filmmakers to revisit some of their all-time favorites.

By David Hudson

All of Us Strangers Tops the BIFAs

Andrew Haigh’s magic-realist love story has won seven British Independent Film Awards.

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

Nightmare Cinephilia

The best-of-2023 listing begins, plus: Abel Gance, Elisabeth Subrin, Pedro Costa, and Park Chan-wook.

By David Hudson

The Radical Cinema of Kiju Yoshida

A retrospective in New York offers an opportunity to delve into Yoshida’s views on the work of early masters such as Kurosawa and Ozu.

By David Hudson

San Francisco’s Day of Silents

Rudolph Valentino, Anna May Wong, Harold Lloyd, and Pola Negri will light up the Castro’s big screen on Saturday.

By David Hudson

Gothams and Golden Horses

Past Lives came out on top in New York, while Stonewalling triumphed in Taipei.

By David Hudson

The Cine-Fist in New York and Vienna

The activist spirit of Sergei Eisenstein haunts two new books.

By David Hudson

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Who Wants to Be Right?

Quite an emotional range this week, from musicals and romantic comedies to the terror of nuclear war.

By David Hudson

November Books

This month brings new books on Godard and Bergman, novelists moonlighting as film critics, and biographies of Lena Horne and Elizabeth Taylor.

By David Hudson

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Those Frozen Horses

Todd Haynes and Tilda Swinton take questions, and Guy Maddin fibs every now and then.

By David Hudson

Paul Vecchiali and The Strangler

A new restoration of beguiling 1970 oddity opens this weekend in cities across the country.

By David Hudson

Trailer Premiere: Taisho Roman

New York’s Japan Society presents six brash films set in a flourishing but all-too-brief era.

By David Hudson

Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil

A new restoration of the Cinema Novo classic opens in New York on Friday.

By David Hudson

Reading Michel Ciment

The leading editorial voice of Positif, the great critic and historian gave us essential books on Kubrick and Campion.

By David Hudson

Scott Eyman’s Charlie Chaplin vs. America

Chaplin, one of the world’s most beloved stars, was grateful to America—until it turned on him.

By David Hudson

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Resonant Hauntings

Black mothers’ stories come around again, Matt Wolf probes the archives, and Lizzie Borden conjures the streets of mid-1980s New York.

By David Hudson

“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”

The subtitle of the series Yasmina Price has programmed for BAM: Cinema, Surrealism, Marxism.

By David Hudson

DOC NYC and IDFA 2023

Both America’s largest and the world’s largest documentary film festivals open today.

By David Hudson

Bicoastal Contenders

For cinephiles in New York and Los Angeles, MoMA curators have selected some of the year’s most enduring films.

By David Hudson

“Life Is Radically Nonbinary”

Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography begins its theatrical run across North America.

By David Hudson

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Fragility and Resilience

Sandra Hüller meets Joachim Trier, Hayao Miyazaki predicts the future, and MoMA showcases Iranian cinema.

By David Hudson

Film Fantastique

Halloweenish movies from France will screen every Tuesday in New York through mid-December.

By David Hudson