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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.
The Past Is an Intruder
New issues of Cineaste and Found Footage Magazine are among this week’s highlights.
From First Bloom to Resplendent Decay
This short week brings writing on Wong Kar Wai’s first series and Kubrick’s and Pasolini’s last features.
Talkies
Look who’s talking: Sissy Spacek, Sylvia Chang, Ryan Coogler, Jean Renoir, and Roberto Rossellini.
Exiles and Homecomings
This week: Buñuel revivals, the Rock Hudson centenary, and Mishima’s Japanese premiere.
The Days Go By
Ira Sachs’s new film opens this week, plus: Joy Williams on Gene Hackman and Claire Atherton’s work with Chantal Akerman.
Visualizing Dread
A packed batch this week, from die-hards by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Jacques Tourneur to new films by Kathryn Bigelow and Radu Jude.
Akerman, Altered States, and Avant Ads
We’re revisiting work by Ken Russell, Chantal Akerman, Billy Wilder, and Abel Ferrara.
Seasons of Discovery
This week brings a profile of Jafar Panahi and a conversation between Lucile Hadžihalilović and Gaspar Noé.
Parallax Views
This week: Essays on Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophie Fillières, and Miguel Gomes, a talk with Wes Anderson, and an AI experiment.
Five NYFF Highlights
Among them are the latest from Claire Denis, the return of Daniel Day-Lewis, and a dazzling restoration.
The Hunt for Movies
The week brings a celebration of restorationists and the new and younger audiences showing up to see their work.
Sated Desires
A week of pairings: Two films by Chantal Akerman, two essays by Serge Daney, Mike Figgis on Francis Ford Coppola, and Nadia Latif on Mira Nair.
From Gospel to Grotesque
Pasolini, Kurosawa, and a week so busy we need to wrap with a lightning round.
Hauntings
We’re listening in this week on conversations with Charlie Kaufman, Alice Diop, and Zeinabu irene Davis.
Top Performances and a Film Maudit
The Ringer ranks this century’s greatest on-screen turns and Joseph McBride champions John Ford’s final feature.
Without Irony
Hong Kong classics, the best of the 1970s, and a Chantal Akerman exhibition are among this week’s highlights.
“This Is About Us”
Julia Loktev issues an urgent warning and Paul Thomas Anderson makes an action movie.
Chaotic Collisions
This week: Edward Yang, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and alternative lists of the best films of the twenty-first century.
Disparate Moods
On our minds this week: Renoir, Malick, Rozier, and a trip to FIDMarseille.
Getting It Done
Kenneth Lonergan and Terry Gilliam check their to-do lists and Vincent Price meets Greta Garbo.
On View Now
The week brings fresh writing on David Cronenberg, Stan Douglas, and Agnès Varda as well as a conversations between Jeff Wall and Pedro Costa.