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Robert Redford on Sydney Pollack
By
Patricia Erens
September 18, 2025
The actor discusses his experience working with a singular filmmaker
Bored with His Name
By
Stephen Schaefer
September 18, 2025
Robert Redford on his new film,
The Milagro Beanfield War
, directing and acting, Sundance, and his remarkable career to date
Tender Mercies
By
John Anderson
November 30, 2023
With
Yi Yi
and
A Brighter Summer Day
in revival at Film at Lincoln Center, revisit this year-2000 essay on the films of Taiwanese master Edward Yang
History, Then and Now
By
Gilberto Perez
December 12, 2022
Step Right Up!
By
Maitland McDonagh
June 1, 2021
George Romero’s empathetic "The Amusement Park" confronts the horrors of the world through the eyes of the elderly
Toward a Theory of Film Directing
By
Charles Grodin
May 24, 2021
From our our May-June 2006 issue, the late-lamented actor's personal take on the actor-director relationship
A Living Nightmare
By
Soraya Nadia McDonald
September 17, 2020
The horrors of slavery in America return in Antebellum, an audacious thriller that revives thorny questions of how to portray the past
Home Movies: Duet for Cannibals
By
Corina Copp
May 8, 2020
Susan Sontag, Sweden, 1969; Kino Lorber, DVD & Blu-Ray
Crimes Against Humanity
By
Ari Aster
May 8, 2020
Elem Klimov’s monolithic war film finally makes its way to DVD and Blu-Ray
Currents: Divinely Evil
By
Jordan Cronk
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere
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