Marco Ferreri: Beyond the Absurd
The robust oeuvre features performances from Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Hanna Schygulla, and Ornella Muti.
Tribeca 2023
Here’s a quick guide to filmmaker profiles and critics’ recommendations.
Béla Tarr in LA and NYC
The Hungarian filmmaker will give introductions and take questions during retrospectives hosted by the American Cinematheque and Film at Lincoln Center.
Jacques Rozier: Risk and Desire
The director of one of the major early works of the French New Wave lived to see interest in his work revived.
Decades of Radical Change
This week we’re spotlighting Ken Jacobs, queer cinema in the 1990s, and the return of the afro-horn.
Kenneth Anger: “Magic Is What You Make It”
The late filmmaker had a profound impact on directors such as Scorsese and Lynch; he could also be a handful.
Triet’s Triumph: 2023 Cannes Awards
It’s not every year that so many critics are pleased with the juries’ choices.
Directors’ Fortnight Standouts
This year saw the return of Michel Gondry, a strong showing from New York, and a bittersweet love story from Georgia.
2023 Critics’ Week Awards
Audrey Diwan’s jury spotlights emerging talents from Malaysia, Belgium, Serbia, and France.
Fallen Leaves and Asteroid City
Two of Cannes’s favorite directors, Aki Kaurismäki and Wes Anderson, return to the competition.
Triet, Haynes, Ceylan
Anatomy of a Fall, May December, and About Dry Grasses are among the critical favorites in competition in Cannes.
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest
Drawing freely from the novel by the late Martin Amis, Glazer emphasizes the horror of what we do not see.
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Blending a tragic love story and a terrifying, slow-motion genocide, Killers has premiered out of competition in Cannes.
Desires Betrayed
Take a break from Cannes with Eric Rohmer, the Dardennes, Patrice Chéreau, Joanna Hogg, and Matthew Barney.
Almodóvar, McQueen, Wenders
A half-hour western, a challenging essay film, and a 3D portrait of a major artist premiere as Special Screenings in Cannes.
Cannes: Maïwenn and Moving Right Along
Now that Jeanne du Barry has opened this year’s edition, critics look ahead to the movies they’re anticipating most.
May Books
New this month: André Bazin in English, the Farrow family, and Tom Hanks’s first novel.
Parallel Orders
This week: Swiss anarchists, Spanish analogue filmmakers, Warren Sonbert, and Jerzy Skolimowski.
Claire Dederer’s Monsters
The critic and memoirist expands on her 2017 essay “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?”
Becker and Sautet in Vienna
The Austrian Film Museum pairs features by the great French directors Jacques Becker and Claude Sautet.
Cannes Spotlights Godard
A new film by the late director is the clear highlight of this year’s Cannes Classics program.
History Lessons
Along with an interview with Straub-Huillet, we’re reading a Taiwanese wuxia primer and assessments of work by Shinji Somai and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Selects
The Thai artist and director picks ten features to screen alongside his own work in New York.
Prismatic Ground 2023
The third edition of New York’s festival of experimental documentary and avant-garde film is on through Sunday.