Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in ...

The multi-hyphenate star of The Christophers and Mother Mary reflects on what it’s like to do it all It was June 2020, three ...

Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text ...

Old and New Beginnings. The critic revisits his years as a Paris and London correspondent for the magazine. by Jonathan ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. Sirk’s extraordinary life has been marked by two abrupt and dramatic departures—at just those moments of dreamlike success that would have prompted most ...

Although he made one movie about mad love—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—David Fincher never seemed a director deeply concerned with intimate relationships between women and men. His primary ...

Home truth: the director of Mountains May Depart explains why it's his most personal film yet (and analyzes its Pet Shop Boys anthem) With Mountains May Depart, Jia Zhang-ke turns his powers of social ...

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A note on the poll’s workings: over 100 North American colleagues ranked their favorites in two categories: 1) those that received theatrical runs and 2) those viewed this year but currently with no ...

Time-space continuum: the director of bifurcated drama The Dreamed Path discusses the role poetry, books, and dogs play in her project of contingent enigmas “Angela Schanelec has spent the past 20 ...

Exploding cinema: the unbridled Id of Toshio Matsumoto’s late-Sixties avant-queer freak-out thrives in a new restoration Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 film Funeral Parade of Roses is a heady affair, ...