Copresented by IndieCollect and @ifccenter.bsky.social, “Declaration of Independents!” opens on Wednesday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

“We’re not going to invent anything or use special effects to fill in the gaps. We’re not working with hypotheses. The idea is to show the original in so far as it’s possible, but it’s like working on a mosaic where there are missing pieces.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

TIL that Joni Mitchell wanted to work with Brian Eno on an ambient album but he turned her down. He had his reasons at the time, but he’s sorry now. For the foreseeable future, I will be mourning what might have been. www.criterionchannel.com/eno

Watching Kleber Mendonça Filho’s THE WORLD CUP IN RECIFE (2014) is an excellent way to spend 15 minutes. www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

ZIDANE @screenslate.bsky.social, Pedro Costa on Mizoguchi and Tourneur @sabzian.bsky.social, EEPHUS @filmquarterly.bsky.social, Louise Weard (@weard.moe) @ InRO, Alexander Sokurov @nytimes.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

The big summer books roundup is now up @sabzian.bsky.social ! sabzian.be/news/new-boo...

Starting Friday, @filmlinc.bsky.social will present Elaine May’s A NEW LEAF (1971), MIKEY AND NICKY (1976), and ISHTAR (1987) ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Busy day for trailers (that’s good!). Padraic McKinley’s THE WEIGHT with Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe (www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ypu...), a new SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcrw...), and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY5k...

Kent Jones’s LATE FAME will finally arrive in U.S. theaters in August. Here’s hoping we over here in Europe won’t have to wait too much longer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMKo...

Starting Friday, @filmforumnyc.bsky.social will present a new restoration of CAREFUL (1992) and three more Guy Maddin features ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Jonathan Kiefer (@kieferama.bsky.social) is programming the monthly Vital Signs Film Series in Oakland ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Catching up with Milagros Mumenthaler’s THE CURRENTS, currently screening in Burlington VT, Austin TX, Portland ME, and on Wednesday in Knoxville TN before heading to more theaters through July — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Packaging inspired by the bespoke Ryder boxes Kubrick used for his archive. NICE. shop.ryderbox.co.uk/products/wir...

Texas. And a mom’s hard-earned tears, a dad’s post-Beatles Beatles mix, awful new dads, Obama ’08, chips and queso, maybe an edible … BOYHOOD will be back in theaters for its 12th anniversary. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Top docs of the 21st century @documentary.org, Raoul Peck @hammerandhope.bsky.social, Maya Cade (@mayascade.bsky.social) @ebertvoices.bsky.social, Jafar Panahi @thepointmag.bsky.social, Screwball Summer @lrb.co.uk … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

This month’s books roundup is up! Martin Scorsese, Agnès Varda, Lars von Trier, Katharine Hepburn … www.criterion.com/current/post...

A series of twelve films by Masahiro Shinoda opens @bambrooklyn.bsky.social on Friday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

The L’Alliance New York series “Chabrol & Huppert: Doing Wrong” opens tomorrow and runs Tuesdays through July 28 ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

I shared some thoughts on David Hockney, whom I never met but whose work I’ve kept close for a long time. Also: his kindness to the great neglected painter Patrick Angus. Free post, no paywall. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/some-thoug...

An amazing oral history of Spielberg from @bilgeebiri.bsky.social (@vulture.com) + Mary Harron @thebeliever.net, Marianne Jean-Baptiste @ MUBI, @jhoberman.bsky.social + Radu Jude @ Film Comment, Pasolini @europeanreview.bsky.social + Ideas Letter… Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

David Hockney, 1937–2026. @theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... “Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... www.criterionchannel.com/a-bigger-spl...

Turns out, no one’s afraid of Virginia Woolf. Arie and Chuko Esiri’s CLARISSA and Rachel Rose’s THE LAST DAY reimagine MRS DALLOWAY, and #SXSWLondon launches Tina Gharavi’s VIRGINIA WOOLF’S NIGHT & DAY — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Overview: DISCLOSURE DAY and Steve Spielberg in the summer of 2026 — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Program’s up, catalogue’s out, site’s revamped, and look who’s on the poster — ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/

“Declarations of Independence: The Cinema of John Sayles” opens Thursday @tiffnet.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Cannot wait. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIjm...

The 7-film series “Stanley Kwan: Ladies Man” opens Thursday @newyork.asiasociety.org ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Heaven is finally catching up with a Rohmer film you’ve somehow never gotten around to seeing before. www.criterionchannel.com/full-moon-in...

Lilly Wachowski @indiewire.com; Shunji Iwai @ Metrograph, @screenslate.bsky.social, and @letterboxd.social; Ozu @ Liberties; Ritwik Ghatak @ BFI; Tsui Hark @ Mubi … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Louis Malle: Portraits of America” opens this evening in NYC @ Metrograph ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Hard to believe that the fighting spirit behind this book and film is gone.

#Tribeca2026 opens today. There’ll be lots of music, another De Niro and Scorsese reunion, and, ready or not, an AI-generated feature — www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Why? Because … with Jean-Pierre Gorin” opens today at L’Alliance New York, and Gorin is in town to discuss his selections for the series, his own work, and his collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard — www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair” opens today @amcinematheque.bsky.social, and within a few days, the world’s most desolate festival will be on at nearly 100 theaters in 73 cities ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Looks like Radu “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop” Jude will be shooting his next feature within a few weeks. LOVE DIPTYCH will be “in dialogue” with Rossellini’s L’AMORE (1948). @cineuropa.bsky.social — cineuropa.org/en/newsdetai...

Hey Bluesky! The first excerpt of my book is out! In the New Yorker! Read all about how the religious right fought to keep The Last Temptation of Christ from being released, and how the battle helped them refine the tactics they still use today. www.newyorker.com/preview/arti...

Goings on in Portland, LA, and NYC + @kphipps3000.bsky.social and @scotttobias.bsky.social on Tarkovsky, Artavazd Pelechian @ MUBI, Pere Portabella @documentary.org, DEAD OF NIGHT @lrb.co.uk, Grigori Kromanov @ Metrograph … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Now this is a very promising pairing: Alice Rohrwacher and Italo Calvino’s THE BARON IN THE TREES. deadline.com/2026/05/alic...

“Enacts a prismatic conversation between the textures of realism and the codes of genre until both layers seem to fuse, miraculously, into one.” @justincchang.bsky.social (@newyorker.com) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Wow, I didn’t realize this devastating film hadn’t been picked up for North America before now. deadline.com/2026/05/gree...

“Open Roads: New Italian Cinema” opens today @filmlinc.bsky.social and runs through Thursday, segueing straight into “History, Italian Style” ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

I mean, after just a minute and a half, how many follow-up questions do *you* have? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXO...

Ken Russell, Vittorio De Sica, Akira Kurosawa, Chris Marker, David Lean, Guillermo del Toro, Bruce Dern … #Cannes2026 Classics highlights — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Impressive trailer for “The Films of António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro” @cinemaguild.com vimeo.com/1193336769 More on the series — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Notes on those #Cannes2026 awards handed out over the weekend — www.criterion.com/current/post...

#ARimbaud director Patrick Wang offers up a prose poem and a playlist on the music inspired by the iconic French poet www.talkhouse.com/song-of-rimb...

Aren’t these great? Designs by Macha Makeïeff and Paper ! Tiger ! A new restoration of MON ONCLE premieres in Cannes today, and the Tati series hits French theaters later this summer.

The agenda-setter is in the Closet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Ns...

Cronenberg’s CRASH @ 30 @letterboxd.social, Boots Riley @newyorker.com, @filipefurtado.bsky.social on a new poll (100 essential Brazilian films), Wallace Shawn @ Interview, Sundance and the general state of things @nplusonemag.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...