David Hudson

The world’s most desolate film festival expands to nearly a hundred theaters in seventy-three cities.

We’re revisiting work by Tarkovsky, Pelechian, and Portabella as well as two films with the word Dead in the title.

Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà present two series back to back, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and History, Italian Style.

This year brought restorations of Ken Russell’s The Devils and docs on Vittorio De Sica, Chris Marker, David Lean, and Bruce Dern.

Top prizes go to films by Cristian Mungiu, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Valeska Grisebach, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Los Javis.

This week brings a look back at Cronenberg’s Crash and conversations with Boots Riley and Wallace Shawn.

The Cannes sidebar wraps with prizes for three stories about teenage girls and another about a determined adult woman.

There’s zero consensus when it comes to the latest films by Na Hong-jin and Cristian Mungiu.

New films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and James Gray are riding high on the Cannes critics’ grids.

Critics are taking to Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, Radu Jude’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, and Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid.

This week: Super 8 films by Teo Hernández, a new feature from Patrick Wang, and a revival of Aloïse (1975), starring Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig.

Jane Schoenbrun’s third feature is met with raves, while three other early entries are seeing mixed reviews.

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.