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David Hudson

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Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard

Reviews may be mixed, but everyone agrees that the main attraction is Rooney and Kate Mara’s sister act.

By David Hudson

Arthur Harari’s The Unknown

The body-swap mystery stumped more than a few viewers in Cannes, but it seems to have found its footing in New York.

By David Hudson

September Books

Shirley Clarke, Orson Welles, George Cukor, Lynne Ramsay, Olivier Assayas, Bree Daniels . . . quite a roundup this month.

By David Hudson

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What If This Was Real?

David Lynch keeps reentering the conversation, and so does Pauline Kael. Plus: A roundup of recent newsletters.

By David Hudson

Previewing the 64th New York Film Festival

While artistic director Dennis Lim lays the groundwork, Film Comment, the Film Stage, and Slant offer guidance through the program.

By David Hudson

Beyond Fest 2026

Michael Mann, M. Night Shyamalan, James Gray, Robert Eggers, and Lance Oppenheim are among the many directors who will be taking questions.

By David Hudson

Long Live the Underground!

The Museum of Modern Art celebrates six decades of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and the Millennium Film Workshop.

By David Hudson

TIFF 2026: The People Have Chosen

The first phase of the fall festival season wraps with a big win for Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La bola negra.

By David Hudson

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To Be Free

We’re remembering Patricio Guzmán and spotlighting new writing on Sarah Maldoror, Tsui Hark, and the Up series.

By David Hudson

Alex Gibney’s Musk

You may think you already know more than enough about the man, but critics find that there’s “a fearsome power” in the way Gibney’s brought it all together.

By David Hudson

Jeremy Thomas: An Astonishing Career

The late producer’s collaborators include Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Oshima, Skolimowski, Roeg, and Takashi Miike.

By David Hudson

Underrepresented, Women Triumph in Venice

May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown wins the Golden Lion, and NAZA, codirected by Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, wins a Special Jury Prize.

By David Hudson

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Turning Points

An eclectic mix this week: Iranian cinema, archival deep dives, Neptune Frost, Pauline Kael, and It Ends.

By David Hudson

Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar

Greene ventures further into a territory where fiction and nonfiction are up to a lot more than a mere blurring of the lines.

By David Hudson

Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love

Riding raves for Lee and his four leads, the film heads next to Toronto and New York.

By David Hudson

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Holding Our Own

Celebrating “reticent auteurs,” a unique London distributor, and the work of Satyajit Ray and Richard Linklater.

By David Hudson

Danny Boyle’s Ink

This year’s Venice opener propels us through the origin story of our current media hellscape.

By David Hudson

Other Goings On

As the fall festival season begins, let’s not overlook some of the other unmissable events happening elsewhere.

By David Hudson

Venice Classics 2026

The festival’s showcase of nineteen new restorations spans more than half a century of cinema history.

By David Hudson

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Disappearing Moments

Revisiting work by Whit Stillman, Frederick Wiseman, Nathaniel Dorsky—and lots of road movies.

By David Hudson

We Will Always Love Dolly Parton

She was a winning presence on the big screen, even if her movies were only a fraction of her monumental impact on popular culture.

By David Hudson

Bibliomania: A Preface to Chronovisor

The fifteen-film series sets the mood for the unique first feature by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker.

By David Hudson

Isabelle Stever’s I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

A queer couple in Kyiv is already working through a personal crisis when Russia invades their country.

By David Hudson

August Books

New, forthcoming, and noteworthy titles include one of the most debated novels of the moment.

By David Hudson