Kent Jones

(Andrew Bujalski, U.S., 2013)

The past is dramatically present in Claude Lanzmann’s monumental new film

(Sofia Coppola, U.S., 2013)

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Gus Van Sant's anti-fracking tale keenly observes small-town life

Examining the "endless pushing and pulling between the artist and art, which always aspires to the condition of nature."

How Richard Peña transformed The New York Film Festival without changing it

In The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson tells a big American story about two men who can't see past each other

Wiazemsky, Godard, Apichatpong, and modernity

The filmmaker reveals the mystery of Farewell, My Queen and the pocket dictionary he used to cheat on his exams

(Philippe Garrel, France, 2011)

Kent Jones re-examines the 50-year career of Andrew Sarris, the man who brought auteurism to America

Kent Jones's response to B. Kite's video essay about Robert Bresson

Kent Jones on Richard Linklater's choral take on small-town Texas foul play

From our July/August issue: Terrence Malick returns to the landscape of his childhood and sees all the way to eternity in The Tree of Life.

Kent Jones previews a new film by independent filmmaker Christopher Münch starring Jacqueline Bisset and Seymour Cassel

A serene middle-aged man sits down at what is apparently a rolltop desk. Around him, shallow darkness, and the arms and torso of an assistant standing by his side. The man pulls up the rolltop (the sound of wood…

The sanctum sanctorum of love

The Invisible Man

Perpetually in the vanguard of world cinema, Wong Kar-wai reinvents and reenergizes his aesthetic with each new picture. With In the Mood for Love, his latest variation on a cherished theme, he delves into a universe of understated passions restrained by decorum.