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Shedding Some Light

By Barry Jenkins

January 2, 2017

The acclaimed director on the films that inspired Moonlight

NYFF: The Aquarius Letters

By Yonca Talu

October 11, 2016

Fierce art: the director of Aquarius discusses the film's personal resonance, its controversial release, and the political situation in Brazil

Sudden Fear (1952)

By Farran Smith Nehme

August 11, 2016

Haute face: Joan Crawford's Oscar-nominated turn as a spurned heiress-playwright offers a new gold standard for 50s melodrama

You’re the One for Me, Fatty

By Scott Eyman

July 11, 2016

Fast and bulbous: in early shorts costarring a young Buster Keaton, the notorious slapstick comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was able to show off his full range of talents

Tough Love: Alan Clarke

By Graham Fuller

June 27, 2016

Revolution, televised: where did the pioneering British director get his Brechtian pyrotechnics?

Father’s Day Special: Bad Dads

By Laura Kern

June 17, 2016

Honor thy father? An unsentimental look at some of cinema's worst patriarchs

The High Times and Hard Fall of Carl Laemmle Jr.

By Farran Smith Nehme

May 27, 2016

Justice for junior: on the privileged and piteous life of the father of Universal horror

Cannes Dispatch #4: Risk & It’s Only The End of the World

By Eugene Hernandez

May 19, 2016

In jeopardy: on Laura Poitras's latest polemic and Xavier Dolan's claustrophobic adaptation of It’s Only the End of the World

Cannes Dispatch #3: Julieta and Aquarius

By Eugene Hernandez

May 17, 2016

Revolutionary stories: on Pedro Almodóvar’s Alice Munro adaptation, Kleber Mendonça Filho's latest, and a red carpet protest

Excerpt: Straub and Huillet Go to the Museum

By Film Comment

May 17, 2016

State of the art: a letter by Danièle Straub-Huillet recounts the careless and destructive attitudes towards conservation of paintings and historical documents