The Daily
Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard
Reviews may be mixed, but everyone agrees that the main attraction is Rooney and Kate Mara’s sister act.
Arthur Harari’s The Unknown
The body-swap mystery stumped more than a few viewers in Cannes, but it seems to have found its footing in New York.
September Books
Shirley Clarke, Orson Welles, George Cukor, Lynne Ramsay, Olivier Assayas, Bree Daniels . . . quite a roundup this month.
What If This Was Real?
David Lynch keeps reentering the conversation, and so does Pauline Kael. Plus: A roundup of recent newsletters.
Previewing the 64th New York Film Festival
While artistic director Dennis Lim lays the groundwork, Film Comment, the Film Stage, and Slant offer guidance through the program.
Beyond Fest 2026
Michael Mann, M. Night Shyamalan, James Gray, Robert Eggers, and Lance Oppenheim are among the many directors who will be taking questions.
Long Live the Underground!
The Museum of Modern Art celebrates six decades of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and the Millennium Film Workshop.
TIFF 2026: The People Have Chosen
The first phase of the fall festival season wraps with a big win for Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La bola negra.
To Be Free
We’re remembering Patricio Guzmán and spotlighting new writing on Sarah Maldoror, Tsui Hark, and the Up series.
Alex Gibney’s Musk
You may think you already know more than enough about the man, but critics find that there’s “a fearsome power” in the way Gibney’s brought it all together.
Jeremy Thomas: An Astonishing Career
The late producer’s collaborators include Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Oshima, Skolimowski, Roeg, and Takashi Miike.
Underrepresented, Women Triumph in Venice
May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown wins the Golden Lion, and NAZA, codirected by Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, wins a Special Jury Prize.
Turning Points
An eclectic mix this week: Iranian cinema, archival deep dives, Neptune Frost, Pauline Kael, and It Ends.
Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar
Greene ventures further into a territory where fiction and nonfiction are up to a lot more than a mere blurring of the lines.
Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love
Riding raves for Lee and his four leads, the film heads next to Toronto and New York.
Holding Our Own
Celebrating “reticent auteurs,” a unique London distributor, and the work of Satyajit Ray and Richard Linklater.
Danny Boyle’s Ink
This year’s Venice opener propels us through the origin story of our current media hellscape.
Other Goings On
As the fall festival season begins, let’s not overlook some of the other unmissable events happening elsewhere.
Venice Classics 2026
The festival’s showcase of nineteen new restorations spans more than half a century of cinema history.
Disappearing Moments
Revisiting work by Whit Stillman, Frederick Wiseman, Nathaniel Dorsky—and lots of road movies.
We Will Always Love Dolly Parton
She was a winning presence on the big screen, even if her movies were only a fraction of her monumental impact on popular culture.
Bibliomania: A Preface to Chronovisor
The fifteen-film series sets the mood for the unique first feature by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker.
Isabelle Stever’s I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming
A queer couple in Kyiv is already working through a personal crisis when Russia invades their country.
August Books
New, forthcoming, and noteworthy titles include one of the most debated novels of the moment.