Signs of the times: the most useful films for this moment of labor unrest in the film industry are those made in close connection with the workers on the front lines
Speechless: in her overview of silent film festivals around the world, scholar Maggie Hennefeld describes fragments of lost worlds revived, offering jolts of existential promise
Throughlines: the German actor, known for his extraordinary physicality, discusses his inspirations and his firecracker performance in Ira Sachs’s new film, Passages
Through the looking glass: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is something smarter than girlboss fantasy or canny corporate sellout—it’s a grappling, rather, with the fundamental ways in which we represent and relate to reality
Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death
Close shave: Masc, a new program on Criterion Channel, offers a rebuttal to the transphobic charge that transition and gender nonconformity are 21st-century phenomena
Jaw dropping: this year’s edition of the Flaherty Seminar delved into the simultaneously exhilarating and elegiac experience of contemplating the past and future of queer experimental film
