A woman peers out a window from an empty room in Bani Khoshnoudi’s THE VANISHING POINT (2025).
Bani Khoshnoudi is in Toronto this week to present “More Than a Witness: The Films of Jocelyne Saab” and her own award-winning feature, THE VANISHING POINT @tiffnet.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Yelena Kuzmina beams in Boris Barnet’s BY THE BLUEST OF SEAS (1936).
“Boris Barnet, A Soviet Poet,” a 12-film retrospective of work by a filmmaker championed by Godard, Rivette, and Bazin, opens Friday @ Metrograph ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Agnès Varda looks into the viewfinder of a monster-sized film camera while waves roil behind her.
A comprehensive Agnès Varda retrospective opens Friday @filmforumnyc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Dammit, Matt. So sorry!
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Kids pause at a railroad crossing in Hiroshi Shimizu’s CHILDREN OF THE BEEHIVE (1948).
Hiroshi Shimizu @outskirtsmag.bsky.social, John Akomfrah @ Brooklyn Rail, Robert Vas @prospectmagazine.co.uk, Jonathan Rosenbaum @chicagoreader.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social …
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Benjamin Voisin on the beach and in black and white as Meursault in François Ozon’s THE STRANGER (2025).
“Rendez-Vous with French Cinema” opens tonight
@filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Civil War reenactors gather in Stephen Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar’s THE GREAT EXPERIMENT (2026)
True/False Film Fest 2026 opens tomorrow ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
A young boy holds up a well-worn book in Bahram Beyzaie’s BASHU, THE LITTLE STRANGER (1986).
Had to work into today’s preview of “Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics,” opening Saturday @bampfa.bsky.social, a link to @newyorker.com’s outstanding interview with activist Mehdi Mahmoudian, who worked with Jafar Panahi on IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Edith Scob and Georges Franju have their eyes on each other on the set of JUDEX (1963).
“The Fantastic Realism of Georges Franju” opens tomorrow at L’Alliance New York ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
A beam of light is reflected in the eye of a donkey in the poster for Alison McAlpine’s PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS (2024).
Tony Kushner on Spielberg’s MUNICH @gqmagazine.bsky.social, Walter Murch on PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS @thefilmstage.com, Satyajit Ray @ 4Columns, Darren Aronofsky’s AI slop @newrepublic.com, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social …
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Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin laugh it up in George Marshall’s Money from Home (1953).
Cinema Revival, the festival of film restoration at the Wexner Center for the Arts, opens today ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Albert Hall and Denzel Washington look up a few things in a prison library in Spike Lee’s MALCOLM X (1992).
Featured in this month’s books roundup: A survey of Black cinema, lots of new New Hollywood titles, and a piece on watching movies with poet John Ashbery — www.criterion.com/current/post...
“Sadism disguised with this lacework of words.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwaq...
A poster for İlker Çatak’s YELLOW LETTERS, the winner of this year’s Golden Bear.
Try as some might, there was no escaping politics at this year’s #Berlinale.
And some films won awards, too ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Steven Soderbergh lines up a shot for UNSANE (2018) with an iPhone.
Steven Soderbergh @letterboxd.social + @bkmag.bsky.social, Raymond Depardon @newyorker.com, Jean-Luc Godard @newleftreview.bsky.social, John Schlesinger @theguardian.com, short films by Mona Fastvold and Ricky D’Ambrose …
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The logo for the Moirée Podcast is naturally a capital M.
Moirée at the #Berlinale. You’ve seen the grid. Now listen to the podcasts — moir.ee/podcasts/moi...
A 1981 photo of Frederick Wiseman by Robert Whittington.
Remembering Frederick Wiseman … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Robert Duvall with half a smile, a vest, a scruffy beard, and a tall cowboy hat.
Remembering Robert Duvall … www.criterion.com/current/post...
A gentle giant, Tom Noonan was a singular character actor in Manhunter, Heat, Last Action Hero, and Synecdoche, New York, and the writer-director-star (+ more) behind What Happened Was....
An imposing presence with rare depth and intelligence, he will be missed.
RIP, 1951–2026
Critics are rating #Berlinale films …
@ Moirée — moir.ee/editions/ber...
@criticde.bsky.social — jury.critic.de/berlinale/
Frederick Wiseman with headphones and a warm smile.
Today is just merciless. Frederick Wiseman, a giant, has died at 96.
@nytimes.com — www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...
A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.
Had a great time talking with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social here at the #Berlinale about Alain Gomis’s DAO, Juan Pablo Sallato’s THE RED HANGAR, and Karim Aïnouz’s ROSEBUSH PRUNING on The Last Thing I Saw — podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Diane Keaton with a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other in Richard Brooks’s LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (1977).
Diane Keaton @ 4Columns, TAXI DRIVER @ 50 @npr.org + @theguardian.com, @robrubsam.bsky.social on spiritual cinema @thebaffler.com, THE BORDER (1982) @newyorker.com, Bardot @lrb.co.uk …
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Pretty high on my most-anticipated list. Premieres Sunday.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDCz...
Bud Cort in a tie and turned-up collar—and with a knowing smile.
Yes, Bud Cort could play an oddball, but always in a slyly endearing way. So sorry to hear he’s gone at 77.
@indiewire.com — www.indiewire.com/news/obituar...
Margaret Sullavan in a hat and fur is reflected a zillion times over in two mirrors facing each other in William Wyler’s THE GOOD FAIRY (1935).
Opening Friday:
Noir City Seattle @siffnews.bsky.social, the Nitrate Film Festival @amcinematheque.bsky.social, and Cinéma du Cashiers @bambrooklyn.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Divine is upside down and laughing in John Waters’s MULTIPLE MANIACS (1970).
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative will celebrate 65 years on Friday with screenings and a benefit gala featuring a tribute to Ken and Flo Jacobs and awards for Nan Goldin, Joan Jonas, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, John Waters, and the Jack Smith Archive — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Find someone who’ll love you the way Laura Dern loves movies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZ...
