Gone fishing: the documentarian talks about his first feature in over a decade, an emotionally devastating and intricately ...

Beyond the frame: films by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ross McElwee, and Bani Khoshnoudi open lines of flight into the shared social and historical world to which they—and we—belong ...

If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child. Where Ray’s ...

Taxi Driver has a lot of negative aspects, but it would be silly to shrug off its baroque visuals and its high-class actor, Robert De Niro, whose acting range is always underscored by a personal ...

Alice Guy was not merely the first woman filmmaker; she was in fact an authentic motion picture pioneer both in the expansion of a film aesthetic and in the development of the new art’s technical ...

Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He frequently writes for the Criterion Collection, and hosts and ...

ROGER CORMAN: I started originally as a mes­senger at Fox. I came out of Stanford as an engi­neer, worked four days and quit. The only way I could get into the business was a messenger. I worked ...

There’s nobody on this set who’s got a bigger dick than he does. Whatever he wants, he gets. —a Milagro production assistant. Even in this remote location, Robert Redford can’t escape the glare of the ...

The story of Third World Cinema Corporation—a fledging production house founded by Black and Latino artists in 1971—is at once inspirational and heartbreaking. An earnest “for us, by us” effort to ...

One Day Pina Asked… has an exclusive theatrical engagement at Film Society of Lincoln Center from June 6 – 12. One Day Pina Asked… During a 2011 post-screening Q&A of Ishtar at the 92nd Street Y, ...

Time is a formidable enemy in Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and thus it’s appropriate that its scenes, shot in handheld cinemascope, are built around prolonged, pitilessly unblinking ...

Land of the Pharaohs (1955, Howard Hawks). When I first saw it, as a kid, Land of the Pharaohs became my favorite film. I’d always been addicted to historical epics, but this one was different: it ...