On Film
What Comes After
We’re sampling new issues of Notebook, Senses of Cinema, and 032c and reading about Eisenstein and Charlotte Zwerin.
Sundance Kicks Off a Weird Year
In the run-up to the forty-first edition, critics have been writing up lists of their most-anticipated films.
Oscar Nominations: A Few Firsts
While Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez takes the lead, the Academy has popped a few surprises.
Berlinale 2025 Lineup
New films by Richard Linklater, Bong Joon Ho, Radu Jude, and Lucile Hadžihalilović are set for the seventy-fifth edition.
David Lynch’s Art Life
Lynchian may be impossible to define, but you know it when you see it.
The Grifters: City of Angles
In his first Hollywood film, British director Stephen Frears dives into the nihilistic world of Jim Thompson’s fiction, delivering an adaptation profoundly attuned to the novelist’s sense of ineluctable suffering.
The Donut, Not the Hole
Featured this week are Frank Capra, Michael Roemer, John Ford, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Fujisawa Rediscovered, Teshigahara Revisited
Long considered lost, Fujisawa’s Bye Bye Love screens at Metrograph with two Teshigahara classics.
Conclave Leads the BAFTA Nominations
Edward Berger’s improbably entertaining follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) scores twelve.
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling: Songs of Innocence and Experience
In his only directorial effort for the big screen, Richard Pryor takes the raw stuff of his life and alchemizes it as art, demonstrating the humor and vulnerability that made him a towering figure in American culture.
The Mother and the Whore: Lovers of Paris
In this digressive, intensely interior masterpiece, Jean Eustache mines the dramas of his past romances while also capturing the disillusionment of young Parisians in the aftermath of May 1968.
Reincarnations of a Rebel Muse
There’s a Delphine Seyrig retrospective on in New York and another will open at the Harvard Film Archive on Friday.
Marco Bellocchio: A Leap in the Dark
Toronto’s retrospective showcases an oeuvre that ranges from Fists in the Pocket (1965) to Kidnapped (2023).
Artifacts and Moments
This week: Eisenstein’s diaries, Godard’s artworks, Mike Leigh’s characters, and Sidney Poitier’s late work.
To Save and Project 2025
MoMA’s festival of film preservation spotlights films from around the world, ranging from the silent era through the 1980s.
The Most-Anticipated Films of 2025
We’re looking forward to new work from Richard Linklater, Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Reichardt, Christian Petzold, Chloé Zhao, Sebastián Lelio, and many other filmmakers.
Frederick Wiseman, Restored
Retrospectives showcasing new restorations are on in Chicago and Los Angeles, and another is heading to New York.
Pleasant Surprises from the Golden Globes
Sunday night’s big winners include The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, and Flow.
Is That the Time?
We spent the holidays reading about Claude Sautet, Pascal Plante, and Christian Marclay.
A Year’s Worth of Essential Reading
Ring in 2025 with this selection of highlights from our past year in publishing.
Room Tone 2024
Look back on the collaborations that defined our year, captured in this compilation of moments that our crew shared with the filmmakers, artists, and experts who talked with us about the movies.
Music with Pictures
Along with conversations with Jem Cohen and Johnnie To, the week brings fresh angles on the year that was.
RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys
One of history’s darkest chapters becomes a deeply personal experience in this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.
2024 Additions to the National Film Registry
The bulk of this year’s selections comes from a three-decade stretch from the early 1970s to the late ’90s.