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Slipping Free of the World
We’re revisiting work by Tarkovsky, Pelechian, and Portabella as well as two films with the word Dead in the title.
Better Parts
This week brings a look back at Cronenberg’s Crash and conversations with Boots Riley and Wallace Shawn.
Corbaz, Critics, and Cannes
This week: Super 8 films by Teo Hernández, a new feature from Patrick Wang, and a revival of Aloïse (1975), starring Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig.
Out of Your World
Film Comment relaunches, Richard Kelly writes, Lynne Ramsay prepares, and in 1976, Roberto Rossellini talked.
Magnanimous!
A new month begins with a Visconti restoration, a new issue of Senses of Cinema, and a deep backgrounder on Backrooms.
The Act of Watching
Great writing this week on Maurice Pialat, Paul Newman, Johnnie To, Mark Fisher, and wrestlers.
Nobler in the Mind
So many Hamlets! Plus Radley Metzger, Marco Bellocchio, and Tilda Swinton and Orbital.
Not I, AI
Jia Zhang-Ke and Steven Soderbergh experiment with AI, plus: Jim Jarmusch, Tina Aumont, and Elvira Notari.
Calling to Your Attention
This week: Mani Haghighi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sophy Romvari and Martha Coolidge, and Ken and Flo Jacobs.
Dark Room Full of Strangers
Featuring pairings of David Bowie and Nicolas Roeg, Jerry Lewis and Jean-Luc Godard, and Caroline Golum and the Middle Ages.
The Best Nightmares
This week: Thierry Frémaux on the Lumière brothers, Lynne Littman and Jane Alexander on Testament, and Christian Petzold on Hitchcock.
Unmistakably Real
SXSW opens, Another Gaze returns, and Juliette Binoche is on tour with her directorial debut.
Look Who’s Back
Jonathan Rosenbaum returns to the Reader, there’s a new Cineaste, plus: Hiroshi Shimizu, John Akomfrah, and Robert Vas.
Daydreams and Nightmares
Tony Kushner revisits Munich, a Satyajit Ray restoration hits theaters, and the new Film Quarterly is out and free.
The Eclectic Continuum
Steven Soderbergh talks and two retrospectives showcase work by Raymond Depardon and John Schlesinger.
Clashing Values and Wild Facts
This week brings a tribute to Diane Keaton, notes on Taxi Driver at fifty, and three flights of the spirit.
Only Humans Love Movies
There’s an AI-driven reconstruction of The Magnificent Ambersons underway, a restoration of Michael Almereyda’s Nadia in theaters—and more.
Cinema as Craft and Hunger
In the spotlight this week: Amir Naderi, Bahram Beyzaie, Hlynur Pálmason, Robert Aldrich, Reginald Hudlin, and the late Béla Tarr.
Revisitations
This week: Max Ophuls, Erich von Stroheim, David Lynch, the Biden years, and the best of 1935.
Beyond Horizons
Michael Almereyda and Radu Jude’s discussion of Eisenstein, Welles, and Godard is just one of this week’s highlights.
“We’re Trying!”
This week: Conversations with Lav Diaz, Mira Nair, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
Wrapping 2025
Head into the holidays with roundtables to watch, articles to read, and podcasts to listen to.
Fidelio
This week: Kubrick conspiracies, Malickian movies, Spike Lee’s musical moments, and a talk with Rebecca Hall.
A Kind of Requiem
This week: Bi Gan, Radu Jude, a new Film Quarterly, and of course, more year-end lists and polls.