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The People Choose The Life of Chuck

Ready or not, the win for Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation kicks off this year’s awards season.

By David Hudson

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Swallowed by the Sea

Will we ever see Ezra Edelman’s Prince documentary? Plus Chantal Akerman, Demi Moore, and the waning of “elevated horror.”

By David Hudson

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Big Year

Chime, a French remake of Serpent’s Path, and Japan’s Oscar submission, Cloud, have all premiered within months of each other.

By David Hudson

Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths

Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays a deeply frustrated woman in Leigh’s first film set in contemporary Britain since Another Year (2010).

By David Hudson

James Earl Jones, Seen and Remembered

A commanding presence on the stage and on movie and television screens, Jones could perform wonders with that voice.

By David Hudson

Pedro Almodóvar Wins the Golden Lion

Venice award-winners also include Brady Corbet, Nicole Kidman, Maura Delpero, and Dea Kulumbegashvili.

By David Hudson

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Plate o’ Shrimp

Alex Cox discusses his first and next films, Warhol rarities screen in New York, and a courtroom drama revisits the culture wars of 1970s France.

By David Hudson

TIFF Preview: Canada and Beyond

Homegrown cinema makes a strong showing this year with new films from Sofia Bohdanowicz, Kazik Radwanski, and David Cronenberg.

By David Hudson

Telluride 2024

The festival launched RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys and brought in a slew of critical favorites fresh from their premieres in Venice.

By David Hudson

Trailer Premiere: Mark Lee Ping-bing

New York’s Metrograph showcases work by the renowned cinematographer with a special focus on his collaborations with Hou Hsiao-hsien.

By David Hudson

Almodóvar, Corbet, Reijn

The Room Next Door, The Brutalist, and Babygirl are met with both wild enthusiasm and serious reservations.

By David Hudson

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Under the Surface

Martin Scorsese and Edgar Wright discuss overlooked British films and cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing talks about working with Hou Hsiao-hsien.

By David Hudson

Tim Burton Opens Venice 2024

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has some critics rolling their eyes, while others embrace his unique and newly reinvigorated vision.

By David Hudson

Fall 2024: It’s On

Critics look ahead to their most-anticipated films in Venice, the festival that kicks off the season.

By David Hudson

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Vital Revivals

We’re revisiting key films from Francis Ford Coppola, Martha Coolidge, John M. Stahl, Asghar Farhadi, and Jacques Rozier.

By David Hudson

August Books

This month brings a new biography of Agnès Varda, collections from Phillip Lopate and Jonathan Rosenbaum, and some hefty coffee-table accessories.

By David Hudson

The Icy Beauty of Alain Delon

Delon brought to the films of Melville, Visconti, Deray, and Losey one of the most beautiful faces in all of cinema.

By David Hudson

Lithuania Triumphs in Locarno

Two Lithuanian directors score top awards, while Invention emerges as a critical favorite.

By David Hudson

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Planet Waves

While we check in this week on Jane Campion and Clint Eastwood, IndieWire reassesses the best of the 2000s.

By David Hudson

The Incomparable Gena Rowlands

With her partner, John Cassavetes, Rowlands made some of the most vital and alive films in all of American cinema.

By David Hudson

Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer

Late August, early September—this is the perfect spot on the calendar for the Rozier retrospectives in New York and Los Angeles.

By David Hudson

Blaxploitation, Baby!

Film Forum presents sixteen films featuring stars such as Richard Roundtree, Pam Grier, and Isaac Hayes.

By David Hudson

Cinema, Restored at BAM

Featuring a new restoration of The Spook Who Sat by the Door, the series includes films by Renoir, Tarkovsky, and Edward Yang.

By David Hudson

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“Cinema Can Possess You More”

Dylan and Peckinpah, Tomoko Tabata and Shinji Somai, and Carol Kane and Nathan Silver are among this week’s rich pairings.

By David Hudson