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.
Swallowed by the Sea
Will we ever see Ezra Edelman’s Prince documentary? Plus Chantal Akerman, Demi Moore, and the waning of “elevated horror.”
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.
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).
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.
Pedro Almodóvar Wins the Golden Lion
Venice award-winners also include Brady Corbet, Nicole Kidman, Maura Delpero, and Dea Kulumbegashvili.
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.
TIFF Preview: Canada and Beyond
Homegrown cinema makes a strong showing this year with new films from Sofia Bohdanowicz, Kazik Radwanski, and David Cronenberg.
Telluride 2024
The festival launched RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys and brought in a slew of critical favorites fresh from their premieres in Venice.
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.
Almodóvar, Corbet, Reijn
The Room Next Door, The Brutalist, and Babygirl are met with both wild enthusiasm and serious reservations.
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.
Tim Burton Opens Venice 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has some critics rolling their eyes, while others embrace his unique and newly reinvigorated vision.
Fall 2024: It’s On
Critics look ahead to their most-anticipated films in Venice, the festival that kicks off the season.
Vital Revivals
We’re revisiting key films from Francis Ford Coppola, Martha Coolidge, John M. Stahl, Asghar Farhadi, and Jacques Rozier.
August Books
This month brings a new biography of Agnès Varda, collections from Phillip Lopate and Jonathan Rosenbaum, and some hefty coffee-table accessories.
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.
Lithuania Triumphs in Locarno
Two Lithuanian directors score top awards, while Invention emerges as a critical favorite.
Planet Waves
While we check in this week on Jane Campion and Clint Eastwood, IndieWire reassesses the best of the 2000s.
The Incomparable Gena Rowlands
With her partner, John Cassavetes, Rowlands made some of the most vital and alive films in all of American cinema.
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.
Blaxploitation, Baby!
Film Forum presents sixteen films featuring stars such as Richard Roundtree, Pam Grier, and Isaac Hayes.
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.
“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.