John Berger and Robert Kramer. An affinity between the critic and the filmmaker developed around the question of resistance.

Toggle the menu Feature The Chorus in Our Heads, or Pier Paolo Pasolini. The critic offers a powerful meditation on ...

In addition to premieres in the main Crystal Globe competition and the more experimental Proxima section (about which, more ...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey offers up a strangely bloodless vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods ...

This year on the Croisette, it’s easy to lose count of the number of logos that precede a film’s opening credits, representing money patchworked together from across multiple countries, each ...

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1. Eighties New Wave: the late Seventies and early Eighties saw a huge influx of talent into Hong Kong from filmmakers who, for the most part, had studied overseas, and then returned to Hong Kong ...

Roland Barthes famously said, “Garbo’s face is Idea, [Audrey] Hepburn’s is Event.” The facial showdown between Idea and Event is played out again in Les Hautes Solitudes, Philippe Garrel’s ...

I understand that a lot of the work you’ll be showing at Anthology hasn’t yet been seen and that there’s quite a lot of it. What is the organizing logic of the “New, but Old” program, which will ...

During Poland’s many years under different occupying powers, Polish mothers came to serve as the preservers of the culture, carrying on traditions, history, and the native language at home. The idea ...

“[Story of My Death‘s] eventual fictional encounter between Casanova and Dracula represents a key moment in European history: the transition from the Age of Enlightenment to that of Romanticism,” ...