The Daily
Mercurial Talents
This week offers reflections on the work of Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Béla Tarr, Satyajit Ray, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Joan Chen.
Laurent Cantet’s Electrifying Cinema
The director of Human Resources (1999), Time Out (2001), and The Class (2008) has died at sixty-three.
Cannes Classics and Summer Festivals
The Official Selection is complete, Classics celebrates twenty years, and beyond Cannes, summer events are lining up.
Lisandro Alonso in LA
The American Cinematheque presents all six features, including the Los Angeles premiere of Eureka.
April Books
This month brings a collection of Chantal Akerman’s writing, analyses of Ozu and Kubrick, and list of the best Hollywood books ever.
Cynthia Carr’s Candy Darling
In her new book on the Warhol superstar, “Carr not only meets Darling on her own terms but insists that we do, too.”
The Future of the Past Is Bright
Revivals of work by Frank Borzage, Ken Loach, and David Fincher are among this week’s highlights.
TCM Classic Film Festival 2024
As TCM turns thirty, the festival opens with a thirtieth-anniversary screening of Pulp Fiction.
The Sympathizer’s Man of Two Faces
Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel stars Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey Jr.
Directors’ Fortnight and ACID Lineups
Two programs running parallel to Cannes announce a diverse array of world premieres.
Critics’ Week 2024 Lineup
Eleven first and second features are slated to premiere, seven of them in competition.
Purple Gaze
Names in the news this week: Alain Delon, John Akomfrah, Francis Ford Coppola, Vera Drew, Charles Burnett, and Miles Davis.
Cannes 2024 Lineup
Anticipation builds for new work from Jia Zhangke, Francis Ford Coppola, Andrea Arnold, and David Cronenberg.
Seven at ND/NF 2024
Heading into its final weekend, the festival presents new work from Singapore, Serbia, Brazil, China, Iran, Georgia, and Taiwan.
Clip Premiere: Intercepted
Oksana Karpovych’s second feature juxtaposes images of a ravaged Ukraine with the voices of Russian soldiers.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2024
This year’s edition features a rediscovered short starring Clara Bow, a precursor to the folk horror craze, and a whole lot of gags from Harold Lloyd.
The Darkest Ripley Yet
In Steven Zaillian’s eight-episode series, Andrew Scott gives us what many find to be the definitive Tom Ripley.
Four New Directors, Four New Films
ND/NF introduces New Yorkers to two family dramas, a Bulgarian thriller, and a Russian road movie.
Women in Time
Léa Seydoux is the star of the week, and we’re also reading about Marguerite Duras, Juraj Herz, and Kinuyo Tanaka.
New Directors/New Films 2024
This year’s edition is bookended by two very New York movies.
Trailer Premiere: Lee Chang-dong at Metrograph
The main attraction of the Metrograph series will be the new restorations of Green Fish, Peppermint Candy, Oasis, and Poetry.
Moving Images at the Whitney Biennial
The show may be “resolutely low-risk” overall, but for many, the standouts are film and video works.
Evolution of the Art
Notes on the past and future work of Martin Scorsese, Alejo Moguillansky, Pedro Costa, and Alice Rohrwacher.
Kenji Misumi’s Sword Trilogy
The director of the films that launched the Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub series made three virtuosic, melancholic dramas in the early 1960s.