Features

A Man Apart

By Molly Haskell

May 3, 2017

Beyond tough, Robert De Niro creates characters whose strange integrity fascinates and frightens us

Art of the Real: Andrea Tonacci

By Ela Bittencourt

May 1, 2017

No boundaries: the late director helped define Brazil's underground film movement by breaking (and mocking) the fourth wall

Holy Seeing: The Vatican on Screen

By Giovanni Vimercati

April 17, 2017

Easter eggs: surveying some Vatican films in Italian cinema in the wake of The Young Pope

Visions of Jean-Pierre

By Olivier Assayas

March 30, 2017

On the brink: a firsthand portrait of the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud at work by the director of Irma Vep, Paris Awakens, Personal Shopper, and more

The Material World

By Jonathan Romney

March 3, 2017

Olivier Assayas’s metaphysical drama searches for answers—and fresh questions—in a digital-spiritual realm

No Joke

By Violet Lucca

February 28, 2017

Out of touch and rehashing ideas, is American comedy simply circling the drain?

Streaming Auteurs: Masahiro Shinoda

By Marc Walkow

February 24, 2017

Rosaries and broadswords: a sizable portion of the Shochiku star director's output is now available for binge-watching

Wuthering Heights on Screen

By Ben Parker

February 22, 2017

Harsh terrain: on the various, windswept films adapted from Emily Brontë’s Gothic classic

Motion Capture: Raoul Coutard

By Max Nelson

February 15, 2017

Wandering eye: an appreciation of the cinematographer who began his career with New Wave giants like Godard and finished it with Garrel

Old Formats, New Streaming: DTV Trash-ter-pieces

By Marc Walkow

February 10, 2017

VHS classicks: the tape trade finds its way onto Amazon and Netflix with gems from the '80s to today