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.
Indie Spirit Nominations
American Fiction, May December, and Past Lives lead with five each, and Showing Up has already won the Robert Altman Award.
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.
All of Us Strangers Tops the BIFAs
Andrew Haigh’s magic-realist love story has won seven British Independent Film Awards.
Nightmare Cinephilia
The best-of-2023 listing begins, plus: Abel Gance, Elisabeth Subrin, Pedro Costa, and Park Chan-wook.
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.
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.
Gothams and Golden Horses
Past Lives came out on top in New York, while Stonewalling triumphed in Taipei.
The Cine-Fist in New York and Vienna
The activist spirit of Sergei Eisenstein haunts two new books.
Who Wants to Be Right?
Quite an emotional range this week, from musicals and romantic comedies to the terror of nuclear war.
November Books
This month brings new books on Godard and Bergman, novelists moonlighting as film critics, and biographies of Lena Horne and Elizabeth Taylor.
Those Frozen Horses
Todd Haynes and Tilda Swinton take questions, and Guy Maddin fibs every now and then.
Paul Vecchiali and The Strangler
A new restoration of beguiling 1970 oddity opens this weekend in cities across the country.
Trailer Premiere: Taisho Roman
New York’s Japan Society presents six brash films set in a flourishing but all-too-brief era.
Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil
A new restoration of the Cinema Novo classic opens in New York on Friday.
Reading Michel Ciment
The leading editorial voice of Positif, the great critic and historian gave us essential books on Kubrick and Campion.
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.
Resonant Hauntings
Black mothers’ stories come around again, Matt Wolf probes the archives, and Lizzie Borden conjures the streets of mid-1980s New York.
“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
The subtitle of the series Yasmina Price has programmed for BAM: Cinema, Surrealism, Marxism.
DOC NYC and IDFA 2023
Both America’s largest and the world’s largest documentary film festivals open today.
Bicoastal Contenders
For cinephiles in New York and Los Angeles, MoMA curators have selected some of the year’s most enduring films.
“Life Is Radically Nonbinary”
Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography begins its theatrical run across North America.
Fragility and Resilience
Sandra Hüller meets Joachim Trier, Hayao Miyazaki predicts the future, and MoMA showcases Iranian cinema.
Film Fantastique
Halloweenish movies from France will screen every Tuesday in New York through mid-December.