Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

From the New Issue

Ice Age

By Aliza Ma
March 6, 2019
With An Elephant Sitting Still, Hu Bo leaves behind a shattering final testament to China’s postindustrial no-hopers

The Truth Hurts

By Amy Taubin
March 1, 2019
The world’s daunting challenges abounded in Park City’s documentary fare, amid progressive rumblings

The Point of No Return

By Nick Pinkerton
March 1, 2019
Claire Denis’s volatile High Life bonds sex and death drives through the space voyage of convicts condemned to the void

Playing Along: Leonard Rosenman (Edge of the City, 1957)

By Carlos Valladares
February 20, 2019
A master of frenetic mood, the Hollywood composer brought a dark mania to films like the 1957 urban drama Edge of the City

The Big Screen: Hotel by the River

By Andrew Chan
February 13, 2019
The inertia of language: the latest from Hong, a master of small talk, draws attention to the emptiness beneath the chatter

Short Take: Everybody Knows

By Steven Mears
February 11, 2019
A starry cast does its best to distract from Asghar Farhadi's thematic architecture, but it's as conspicuous as the drones that hover about the proceedings

Triumph of the Will

By J. Hoberman
February 5, 2019
Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics

Excerpt from Close Readings

By Daniel Morgan
January 29, 2019
Read an excerpt from Daniel Morgan's essay on Jean -Luc Godard's The Image Book

The Hand of Time

By Amy Taubin
January 2, 2019
Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book has arrived in all its compendious, homemade splendor. Right-hand man Fabrice Aragno explains how it came to be