Mark Asch

Big plans: the latest from Ridley Scott, trailblazing auteur–turned–late-career journeyman, is an epic biopic of the war-mongering emperor that turns out to be a bit weirder than it initially seems

More please: Arnow’s comedic auto-portrait of a woman adrift in New York City is a moving exploration of romantic and existential indecision, sexual self-expression, humiliation, and the uses of first-person experience in storytelling

Talking past each other: the director of Cannes sensation R.M.N. discusses the timely, timeless, and technical aspects of his politically charged drama.

Common people: the Norwegian director discusses his latest, a shape-shifting romantic comedy of self-realization, The Worst Person in the World

Animal planet: Dash Shaw’s animated phantasmagoria draws from diverse influences in an attempt to renew a jaded audience’s capacity for awe and terror

The Director of Film Programming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the challenges posed by ongoing crisis

The Executive Director of arthouse theater The Loft Cinema in Tuscon sat down for our series of conversations with movie world folks about the ongoing crisis

For the next in our our series reaching out to folks in the movie world about the ongoing crisis, we talk to C. Mason Wells, Director of Theatrical Sales at Kino Lorber

For the next in our our series reaching out to folks in the movie world about the ongoing crisis, we talk to Rachel Rosen, director of the San Francisco Film Festival

A new series reaching out to folks in the movie world about the ongoing crisis, starting with Eliza Hittman, director of Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Edward Norton’s film is not just nostalgic for the New York City it recreates, but fixated on the moment of its loss

In his latest, Rick Alverson employs that most frontal of metaphors: the lobotomy

Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm

The air up there: Steven Soderbergh discovers yet another profession whose practitioners’ for-hire physiques stand in for the gig-to-gig economics of his own creative hustle.

(Kanopy & Hoopla Digital)

(Robert Greene, USA, 4th Row Films, Opening September 5)

O, hey, pioneers: the directors of Two Plains & a Fancy and L for Leisure talk about intermingling old worlds and new

(João Dumans & Affonso Uchoa, Brazil, Grasshopper Film, Opening June 8)

(Johnny Ma, China/Canada, Opening November 30)

Can you believe it? Bruno Dumont’s latest controlled experiment in faith