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Frank at 100: Sinatra on Screen

By Steven Mears

July 27, 2015

Beyond the cool cat: a look at the performer’s stirring roles in a screen career still too often lost in the music

Film of the Week: The Look of Silence

By Jonathan Romney

July 24, 2015

Ways of seeing: Joshua Oppenheimer revisits the Indonesian genocide through the eyes of a victim's brother with a piercing calm

Interview: Pedro Costa

By Neil Bahadur

July 21, 2015

Saudade on acid (or maybe just morphine): Costa speaks about the most recent installment of his Fontainhas tetralogy, Horse Money

The Mystery of the Great Pyramid

By Pedro Costa

July 16, 2015

An essay by the Horse Money director about a beguiling Howard Hawks film, showing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center

Review: Trainwreck

By Violet Lucca

July 15, 2015

She's not so unusual: Amy Schumer's character in her feature debut is her own worst enemy, but can the same be said of the movie?

Rep Diary: Ford and Ireland

By Max Nelson

July 15, 2015

Irish eyes: how the Hollywood giant's portrayal of his ancestral country shifted over the course of his extraordinary career

Art/Form: Antonioni at the Cinémathèque Française

By Chris Darke

July 13, 2015

An illuminating show mixes the media of the maestro's work in painting, photography, and film to uncover his metaphysics of the image

Review: Self/less

By Jackson Arn

July 10, 2015

The remake fantasy: Tarsem Singh transplants John Frankenheimer’s Seconds to the present day, but does this new model have a conscience?

Interview: Sean Baker

By Jordan Cronk

July 8, 2015

The method: the director of Tangerine and Starlet discusses his collaborative approach to crafting stories with his actors and the unseen side of L.A.

NYAFF Interview: Daihachi Yoshida

By Violet Lucca

July 8, 2015

A master of eccentric comedies with realistic undertones goes serious for Pale Moon, a study in the social constraints Japanese society places on women