The 20 at the top include Chris Marker’s LA JETÉE (1963), Agnès Varda’s VAGABOND (1985), and Abbas Kiarostami’s TASTE OF CHERRY (1997).
Great to come across another Zbigniew Rybczyński fan. Ildikó Enyedi’s list of 49 favorites for @lacinetek.bsky.social — @letterboxd.social — letterboxd.com/lacinetek/li...
Vaudeville performers Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown in William Selig’s SOMETHING GOOD: NEGRO KISS (1898).
This month’s books roundup got large: Early silents, John Ford, George Cukor, Erich von Stroheim, Larry McMurtry, George A. Romero, Jane Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Alexander Kluge … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Up close on Nathalie Baye’s face in Jean-Luc Godard’s EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (1980).
Remembering Nathalie Baye … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Nathalie Baye lights a candle in François Truffaut’s THE GREEN ROOM (1977).
Nathalie Baye, an anchoring presence in films by Truffaut, Godard, Pialat, Chabrol, Sautet, Tavernier, and Blier, has died. She was 77.
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And it's excellent, so thank *you!*
In Jes Benstock and Luke Losey’s 1996 stop-motion animated video for Orbital’s “The Box,” Tilda Swinton is an alien wandering East London.
From @bilgeebiri.bsky.social (@vulture.com), so many Hamlets! Plus Radley Metzger @ Metrograph, Marco Bellocchio @ Bright Lights, silent-era dreams @anothermag.com, @danielgray.com’s Meanwhile …
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Strikers gather during a notoriously harsh Minnesota winter in Barbara Kopple’s AMERICAN DREAM (1990).
Barbara Kopple, Gianfranco Rosi, Ross McElwee, Želimir Žilnik, and Caveh Zahedi will be there … Screenings include work by Eisenstein, Peter Watkins, and Howard Brookner …
This Is Not a Fiction 2026 opens today @amcinematheque.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
#Cannes2026
No subtitles yet, I’m afraid, but there’s now a trailer out for Asghar Farhadi’s PARALLEL LIVES: Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Catherine Deneuve.
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In the poster for Rosanne Pel’s DONKEY DAYS, the faces of two sisters are jammed above their mother’s face within the form of a donkey’s head.
An overview of the second half of this year’s New Directors/New Films, which runs through the weekend @filmlinc.bsky.social and MoMA — www.criterion.com/current/post...
That'd be amazing, Tom. Good luck!
It is always a good day when there is Joan Crawford news to share. LETTY LYNTON is back: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...
#Cannes2026 #Quinzaine2026
And here are notes on the 19 features — www.criterion.com/current/post...
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A few notes on the eleven features selected to premiere during this year’s Critics’ Week — www.criterion.com/current/post...
The cover pf YOU’VE STOLEN MY HEART, the 2005 Kronos Quartet album featuring Rahul Dev Burman’s arrangements of songs sung by Asha Bhosle.
I cannot in any way claim to know all that much about Asha Bhosle, and I know even less about Indian music in general, but this album is extraordinary, and I come back to it again and again.
AI sends Jia Zhangke through a scene in one of his early films.
Jia Zhangke @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Steven Soderbergh @ Filmmaker, Jim Jarmusch @theguardian.com, Tina Aumont @ 4Columns, Elvira Notari @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social’s place …
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Half of a woman’s face is seen through the silhouetted profile of a man on a poster for Pedro Almodóvar’s BITTER CHRISTMAS.
Early notes on the #Cannes2026 lineup announced today — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Leaning on each other gently, two boys rest in Jaume Claret Muxart’s STRANGE RIVER (2025).
This year’s New Directors/New Films is off and running @filmlinc.bsky.social and @ MoMA ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Eric Rahill and John Early stand in front of a mirror in in Early’s MADDIE’S SECRET (2025).
This year’s Los Angeles Festival of Movies opens Thursday with MADDIE’S SECRET and features CHRONOVISOR, AFTER DREAMING, WITH HASAN IN GAZA, BLUE HERON … www.criterion.com/current/post...
The shadows of a man and a woman, seemingly about to kiss, fall on a bed in Ernst Lubitsch’s TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932).
“The Lubitsch Touch” opens tomorrow @filmforumnyc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Yes! This is fantastic news. So well-deserved. Congrats!
A scene from Mani Haghighi’s A DRAGON ARRIVES! (2016). Long shot. Two men approach each other over desert sands pockmarked with strangely upright stones. Behind one of the men, there’s an abandoned ship, and over both of them floats a giant cluster of bright and colorful balloons.
Mani Haghighi @newyorker.com, Ken and Flo Jacobs @screenslate.bsky.social + @nytimes.com, Sophy Romvari and Martha Coolidge @ebertvoices.bsky.social, Kiyoshi Kurosawa @reverseshot.bsky.social, Ricky D’Ambrose and Radu Jude @ Filmmaker …
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An excerpt. Alexander Kluge: “In 1928 I could have created conditions with eight hundred thousand teachers that would have prevented me from sitting powerlessly in a basement in 1945. I can start now to solve the problems of 2026, which my children will live to see. And if we set up this working group now, it’s better than only doing it in 2036, in mourning for what went wrong in 2026.”
From @eflux.bsky.social, a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and the late Alexander Kluge that took place on January 1, 2017 — www.e-flux.com/notes/678347...
IN JACKSON HEIGHTS (2015) screens Sunday @ MoMI, “This Is America at 250: Frederick Wiseman” is on @ Digital Gym in San Diego, and “Frederick Wiseman’s America” opens next week @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Lucrecia Martel with windblown hair.
“Lucrecia Martel: Un destino común” opens Saturday @bampfa.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
A desperate woman pleads with a man in some sort of protective gear—presumably against radiation—in Veljko Bulajić’s ATOMIC WAR BRIDE (1960).
The 7-film series “Cold War Visions: Nuclear Anxiety in Eastern Bloc Cinema” opens at the Barbican in London tomorrow — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Gong Li stands proudly among tall stalks in Zhang Yimou’s RED SORGHUM (1988).
“Revisiting Chinese Cinema,” a 12-film retrospective, will be accompanied by master classes from Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Huang Jianxin, Ann Hui, and Tsai Ming-Liang @ #HKIFF50 ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Mary Beth Hurt, the Tony-nominated actress who brought quiet depth to films like Interiors, The World According to Garp, and Six Degrees of Separation, has died at 79. A consummate ensemble player who preferred it that way.
David Bowie, his hair flaming orange against a blue, gray, and cloudy sky, in Nicolas Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976).
Nicolas Roeg @sightsoundmag.bsky.social + @lwlies.com, Jerry Lewis @theaterofmatters.bsky.social + @robert-emmet.bsky.social + @screenslate.bsky.social, @carolineavenue.bsky.social @ InRO, “cinema’s libido” @ Club Ciné, Béla Tarr …
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