New @cineastemagazine.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, Winona Ryder @ Metrograph, Neil Jordan @letterboxd.social, @luxante.bsky.social on Renate Adler vs Pauline Kael @nybooks.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
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I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
Farewell to Marina Vlady, who won a Best Actress Award in Cannes for her turn in Marco Ferreri’s THE CONJUGAL BED (1963) but is surely best known for her Juliette in Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (1967). She was 88. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
#NYFF64 “The reemergence of [Paula Delsol’s] LA DÉRIVE [1964] is part of one of the most significant phenomena in contemporary film culture: an archive fever running high enough to inspire delirium.” Erika Balsom @nybooks.com — www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Sand Castles | Erika Balsom
To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on
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“Long Live the Underground! Celebrating Six Decades of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop” opens tomorrow @ MoMA ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
The People have chosen. An overview of the winners of the top awards in Toronto — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Here's my recap of Venice, Telluride and Toronto, including my rankings of every film I saw. Plus, I share some thoughts about the underrated pleasures of fall festival season.
Venice/Telluride/Toronto 2026: The Wrap-Up and the Rankings
I've been going to film festivals long enough that I have a group of friends who I only see at them. Colleagues and pals who live in New Yor...
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Remembering Patricio Guzmán + Sarah Maldoror @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, BLACK ZOMBIE @letterboxd.social, Claire Denis and Suzanne Lindon @anothermag.com, Tsui Hark @ Metrograph, the UP series @theguardian.com and BBC … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Yes, we already know more than enough about the man, but critics find that there’s “a fearsome power” in the way Alex Gibney pulls it all together in MUSK — www.criterion.com/current/post...
🇨🇱 Rest well Patricio Guzmán (1941-2026), the great documentary filmmaker whose films included THE BATTLE OF CHILE trilogy and NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT. Read Sam Brodsky's interview with the filmmaker in Film Comment from 2023: filmcomment.com/interview-patricio-guzman-on-the-battle-of-chile
Remembering Jeremy Thomas … www.criterion.com/current/post... 2015 portrait by @carlrandallart.bsky.social — www.carlrandall.com/london-portr...
An overview of early critical response to this weekend’s award-winners in Venice — www.criterion.com/current/post...
In this terrific road movie — Jeremy Thomas never flew to Cannes, but drove — @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social invites us to hang with the man and hear about what motivated him to ally with Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Roeg, Miike … www.criterionchannel.com/the-storms-o...
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Mark Cousins • 2021 • United Kingdom For decades, legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas has driven from England to the Cannes Film Festival. This time, he’s joined by acclaimed filmmaker ...
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One of the greatest film producers, Jeremy Thomas, died last night. Bad Timing, Eureka, The Hit, Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Crash, Naked Lunch. I made it back from America to be with him at the end. We drank red wine and cried. Truly loved him.
Iranian cinema @ Brooklyn Rail, “Archive Fever” @thebaffler.com, NEPTUNE FROST @eflux.bsky.social, Pauline Kael @hedgehogreview.bsky.social, IT ENDS @defector.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
#Venezia83 With TOO MUCH SUGAR, Robert Greene ventures further into a territory where fiction and nonfiction are up to a lot more than a mere blurring of the lines — www.criterion.com/current/post...
A lot of movies premiered in Venice and Telluride over the weekend, but few have garnered the kind of raves Lee Chang-dong’s POSSIBLE LOVE has — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Mike Leigh on distributor Contemporary Films @theguardian.com + BFI, “reticent auteurs” @yalereview.bsky.social, Satyajit Ray @newyorker.com, westerns + horror @filmmakermagazine.com, Richard Linklater @latimes.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Danny Boyle’s INK, starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, and Claire Foy, has opened Venice, and the early reviews are pretty strong — www.criterion.com/current/post...
František Vláčil, Musclefest, Rockaway FF, Chinese artists @newyork.asiasociety.org, Mel Brooks’s favorites @amcinematheque.bsky.social, Chantal Akerman, Crossroads @sfcinematheque.bsky.social, Alice Diop @bampfa.bsky.social, and more goings on … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Rossellini, Buñuel, Lubitsch, Cassavetes, Wajda, Ann Hui, Alexander Kluge, Jaromil Jireš, Flora Gomes, Roger Corman, Ettore Scola … Notes on this year’s Venice Classics program — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Not the usual suspect. This year’s retrospective presented by @filmmuseum.bsky.social and the Viennale is dedicated to Robert Aldrich! And there’ll be a book, too. www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/fi... www.viennale.at/en/preview/r...
Whit Stillman @theguardian.com, Frederick Wiseman @uniondocs.bsky.social + @nplusonemag.com, David Schwartz on Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, @kieferama.bsky.social on Nathaniel Dorsky @bampfa.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
“Honestly, I have a privilege many filmmakers don’t: I quite like my films.” Mike Leigh, talking to Clayton Davis (@byclaytondavis.bsky.social) @variety.com — variety.com/2026/film/fe...
Mike Leigh Has Spent 50 Years Refusing to Compromise. He’s Not Starting Now.
Mike Leigh talks "Tender Loving Care," why it may be his last film, 50 years of never compromising and the Harvey Weinstein story from the 90s.
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“Bibliomania: A Preface to CHRONOVISOR” opens Friday @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
