“The Secret Agent Network,” a series programmed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, is on from January 7 through 13 @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion, couldn’t metabolize Palestine. It still can’t.” David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...

Kubrick conspiracies @vulture.com, Malickian movies @yalereview.bsky.social, Spike Lee + music @letterboxd.social, Rebecca Hall @ Club Ciné, and the @slate.com Movie Club is on! Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post... Alt poster by Mike Trujillo (www.instagram.com/madmiketruji...)

“Ways of Seeing 2025,” a roundup of the latest best-of lists and polls and some fine writing to go with them — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, Martin Scorsese and Robbie Robertson, Luc Moullet, Esfir Shub, Abel Ferrara, Sam Shepard … it’s the December Books roundup — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Besides films by Akerman, Kieślowski, Herzog, Farocki, Makavejev, Linklater, and Spike Lee, the Berlinale’s “Lost in the 90s” retrospective will feature Godard’s ALLEMAGNE ANNÉE 90 NEUG ZÉRO with Eddie Constantine’s Lemmy Caution. Hope to see some of you there ! www.berlinale.de/en/press/pre...

None of these are easy, but damn, this one … Remembering Rob Reiner … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Queer cinema pioneer Rosa von Praunheim, best known for IT IS NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE, BUT THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVES (1971), has died. He was 83. @spiegel.de — www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/...

Some of the many books from our winter selection: → sabzian.be/news/new-book-releases-winter-2026

A joy working on Screen Slate's Favorite First Viewings w/ entries from our incredible contributors and from Jafar Panahi, Kahlil Joseph, Park Chan-wook, Julia Loktev, Lav Diaz, Isabel Sandoval, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Alain Guiraudie, Darius Khondji, and more! www.screenslate.com/articles/bes...

Bi Gan @nytimes.com, disturbing soundtracks @thequietus.com, @mudede.bsky.social and Robinson Devor @screenslate.bsky.social, Radu Jude @eflux.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, and more best-of-2025 lists and polls … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Charli XCX stars in three of the 90 features Sundance has lined up for 2026 — www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Sergei Eisenstein: 100 Years of Potemkin” is on at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna from tomorrow through January 5 — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Another quick update on the latest best-of-2025 lists and awards — www.criterion.com/current/post...

We're delighted to announce the launch of the Outskirts Film Podcast, a bi-monthly podcast about cult movies, experimental film, popular cinema, and everything in between and at the peripheries. Rate, subscribe & follow us wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Straub and Huillet’s THESE ENCOUNTERS OF THEIRS (2005) screens on 35mm on Wednesday @bambrooklyn.bsky.social and Pedro Costa will be in Copenhagen this weekend — www.criterion.com/current/post...

David Lynch @artforum.com, postwar British cinema @nybooks.com, Kevin Brownlow @theguardian.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social, new Found Footage Magazine, more best-of-2025 lists and one big poll … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

A brief update on the latest best-of-2025 lists and awards — www.criterion.com/current/post...

At this point, when it comes to Ukraine (and probably several other issues as well), European leaders trust the US about as far as you’d expect them to. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Satyajit Ray, Mikio Naruse, Pedro Almodóvar, William Wyler, John M. Stahl, Robina Rose … Present Past 2025: A Celebration of Film Preservation opens tomorrow at the Academy Museum and runs through December 22 — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Notes on a few of the top winners of this year’s Gothams and British Independent Film Awards, plus a few early best-of-2025 lists. So now we’re in it. We’ll do something else tomorrow, but then it’s right back at it again on Thursday … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Remembering Tom Stoppard … www.criterion.com/current/post...

I'm doing something revolutionary. Something no one has done before: A NEWSLETTER! Yes, I'm throwing a party and I'd love for you to come.

Wong Kar Wai @bostonglobe.com + @ebertvoices.bsky.social, Kubrick @indiewire.com + @thefilmstage.com, rubble films + EDGE OF DARKNESS @thequietus.com, Michel Simon @theguardian.com, Pasolini @sightsoundmag.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Remembering Udo Kier … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Anyone who loved BETWEEN THE TEMPLES half as much as I did is going to want to know about this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC_Q...

This month brings one of the biggest books roundups yet, with notes on new collections from Melissa Anderson and @hamrahrama.bsky.social plus biographies, memoirs, and more — www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Let me tell you a story …”

Sissy Spacek @ Interview + @vulture.com, Renoir + Rossellini @sabzian.bsky.social, Godard @eflux.bsky.social, Sylvia Chang @ Metrograph, that scene in SINNERS @latimes.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Poster on the left: “A somber Norwegian family drama would be good for you.” Poster on the right: “Europeans know how to have fun. Just ask Elle Fanning!” Anyway, a roundup: www.criterion.com/current/post...

As a complement his new MoMA exhibition LESS IS MORBID, Arthur Jafa has programmed a series of four double bills — www.criterion.com/current/post...

New Issue on Sabzian: ‘André Bazin, Television Critic’ Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini. → sabzian.be/issue/andr%C3%A9-bazin-television-critic

“Mamoru Oshii Restored: Origins and Inspirations” is on at Metrograph, and ANGEL’S EGG (1985) opens nationwide on Wednesday — www.criterion.com/current/post...

“What was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.” New on Sabzian: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the filming of Accattone

Buñuel @nytimes.com + @avclub.com, Rock Hudson @ 100 @ BFI, Yekaterina Golubeva @ Metrograph, Paul Schrader @thefilmstage.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

The director, producer, and mentor to Fatih Akin, who is best known internationally for his appearances in Fassbinder’s films, is gone at 86.

Terrific interview with Sylvia Chang here by @swenryan.bsky.social metrograph.com/sylvia-chang...

Early reviews of SCENE, Abel Ferrara’s memoir, are strong, and the generous excerpt up @literaryhub.bsky.social is especially recommended ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Remembering Tatsuya Nakadai … www.criterion.com/current/post...

One-week runs of Oliver Laxe’s SIRÂT begin Thursday @filmlinc.bsky.social and Friday in Los Angeles before @neon-rated.bsky.social rolls out a wider theatrical release in January — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Naruse, Teshigahara, Ichikawa, and Kinuyo Tanaka, has died at 92. “The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...

THE SILVER BOOK, Olivia Laing’s second novel, is set in mid-1970s Rome, where Fellini is shooting CASANOVA and Pasolini is at work on SALÒ — www.criterion.com/current/post...

The Brooklyn Rail + the Film-Makers’ Cooperative are hosting a free virtual screening of the late Ken Jacobs’s STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH on Tuesday. David Schwartz offers a brief intro (brooklynrail.org/event/2025/1...) and goes longer on Ken + Flo Jacobs for Film Comment — mailchi.mp/filmcomment/...

Ben Whishaw’s Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kKR...

Ira Sachs @ 4Columns + @newyorker.com, Joy Williams on Gene Hackman @harpers.bsky.social, Claire Atherton and Chantal Akerman @eflux.bsky.social, Terence Davies @ BFI, new @sensesofcinema.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

In the run-up to the release of JAY KELLY (limited theatrical on November 14 and streaming on Netflix on December 5), @amcinematheque.bsky.social presents five films by Noah Baumbach — www.criterion.com/current/post...

So looking forward to finally catching Bi Gan’s RESURRECTION when 14 Films presents it in Berlin (www.14films.de/en/resurrect...). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJe...

I was already intrigued, but now the teaser has put Mona Fastvold’s THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE on the absolute must-see list: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...