#Cannes2026 Discoveries will be made, but on opening day, here’s what looks most promising — www.criterion.com/current/post...

This month’s books roundup opens with a focus on the Marilyn Monroe centenary and then moves on to Hollywood thrillers, underground scenes in NYC and London, reissues from Kurosawa and Louise Brooks, and more — www.criterion.com/current/post...

A pretty fine series of posters for Robert Bresson’s films by Kiyoshi Tsukamoto — eraplatonico.tumblr.com/post/8162354...

Roberto Rossellini @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, Richard Kelly @gqmagazine.bsky.social, Lynne Ramsay @ The Gentlewoman, Tony Buba @spectacletheater.com, new Film Comment … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

“António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, Restored” opens today @tiffnet.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

We're thrilled to exclusively debut the trailer and poster for Bruno Dumont's #RedRocks, premiering at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes 2026. Watch: thefilmstage.com/exclusive-tr...

Starting in Cannes next week, Moirée will be stepping up its podcast game with more frequent dispatches year-round. We've launched a new Patreon page, where listeners can support us and also unlock extra content and features. More here: www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...

Previewing this year’s New York African Film Festival, opening tonight @filmlinc.bsky.social, and the #SIFF2026 African Pictures program @siffnews.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

What a shocking and terrible loss. And what a unique talent.

Kurosawa, Welles, De Sica, Visconti, Wajda, Skolimowski, Ken Russell, Guillermo del Toro, Chen Kaige, Artavazd Pelechian, docs on Chris Marker and Bruce Dern, a new short from Jia Zhangke … The #Cannes Classics 2026 lineup is … up ! www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/pre...

This year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival opens tomorrow ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

They kept dropping hints, and now, here it is. Film Comment has relaunched as a quarterly digital magazine. Up now: Erika Balsom on Lucrecia Martel, Jonathan Rosenbaum on his 1970s columns, Amy Taubin’s interview with Michaela Coel … www.filmcomment.com

A look at the four features set to screen in L’Alliance New York’s ongoing Sophie Letourneur retrospective — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Magnani + Visconti @nytimes.com, Pearl Bowser @ Forward, Alexander Kluge @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, BACKROOMS @mitpress.bsky.social, May Day movies @thenation.com, new @outskirtsmag.bsky.social Podcast + @sensesofcinema.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Welcome to Issue 117! This issue presents a new special dossier by Senses editor Leonardo Goi: 'State of the Festival'. This dossier sets out to probe the tensions "between the festivals’ substance (the films!) and the flashy atmosphere that chokes them." buff.ly/B9Ocxrt

The second weekend of First Look 2026 begins today @ MoMI ! www.criterion.com/current/post... www.youtube.com/watch?v=E17G...

The gist is right there in the headline, so I’ll just note here that, given carte blanche, Bi Gan chose to screen Fei Mu’s SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (1948) and Jia Zhangke’s THE WORLD (2004). @variety.com — variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Opens today ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

#TCMFF This year’s TCM Classic Film Festival (@tcmtv.bsky.social) opens Thursday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Prismatic Ground 6, copresented with @screenslate.bsky.social, opens on Wednesday and plays out in five NYC venues through the weekend — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Maurice Pialat @screenslate.bsky.social + 4Columns, @angelicabastien.bsky.social on Paul Newman, luchadores + kaijus @outskirtsmag.bsky.social, Johnnie To @ Metrograph, Mark Fisher @thequietus.com + @theguardian.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

First Look, MoMI’s showcase of “adventurous new cinema,” opens tonight, and here’s an overview of what’s on offer this first weekend — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Dean Tavoularis, the production designer who worked with Francis Ford Coppola on 13 films—and with Antonioni, Friedkin, Wenders, Polanski, and Arthur Penn—has died at 93. @thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Saturday’s Harvard Film Archive screening of Béla Tarr’s SÁTÁNTANGO is sold out. Love to see it. harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/sat...

#IFFBoston2026 @iffboston.bsky.social opens tonight ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Producer Rodrigo Teixeira: “I never saw Scarlett Johansson do what she did in this film. Never. I think she made a work that will be remembered. Adam Driver and Miles Teller are great. Miles Teller is the new James Caan.” thefilmstage.com/im-not-seein... variety.com/2026/film/fe...

She’s right. Good to the last drop! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/a...

Great to come across another Zbigniew Rybczyński fan. Ildikó Enyedi’s list of 49 favorites for @lacinetek.bsky.social — @letterboxd.social — letterboxd.com/lacinetek/li...

This month’s books roundup got large: Early silents, John Ford, George Cukor, Erich von Stroheim, Larry McMurtry, George A. Romero, Jane Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Alexander Kluge … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Remembering Nathalie Baye … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Nathalie Baye, an anchoring presence in films by Truffaut, Godard, Pialat, Chabrol, Sautet, Tavernier, and Blier, has died. She was 77. veritas.enc.edu/news/disappe...

From @bilgeebiri.bsky.social (@vulture.com), so many Hamlets! Plus Radley Metzger @ Metrograph, Marco Bellocchio @ Bright Lights, silent-era dreams @anothermag.com, @danielgray.com’s Meanwhile … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Barbara Kopple, Gianfranco Rosi, Ross McElwee, Želimir Žilnik, and Caveh Zahedi will be there … Screenings include work by Eisenstein, Peter Watkins, and Howard Brookner … This Is Not a Fiction 2026 opens today @amcinematheque.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

#Cannes2026 No subtitles yet, I’m afraid, but there’s now a trailer out for Asghar Farhadi’s PARALLEL LIVES: Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Catherine Deneuve. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXuL...

An overview of the second half of this year’s New Directors/New Films, which runs through the weekend @filmlinc.bsky.social and MoMA — www.criterion.com/current/post...

It is always a good day when there is Joan Crawford news to share. LETTY LYNTON is back: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

#Cannes2026 #Quinzaine2026 And here are notes on the 19 features — www.criterion.com/current/post...

#Cannes2026 A few notes on the eleven features selected to premiere during this year’s Critics’ Week — www.criterion.com/current/post...

I cannot in any way claim to know all that much about Asha Bhosle, and I know even less about Indian music in general, but this album is extraordinary, and I come back to it again and again.

Jia Zhangke @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Steven Soderbergh @ Filmmaker, Jim Jarmusch @theguardian.com, Tina Aumont @ 4Columns, Elvira Notari @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social’s place … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Early notes on the #Cannes2026 lineup announced today — www.criterion.com/current/post...

This year’s New Directors/New Films is off and running @filmlinc.bsky.social and @ MoMA ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

This year’s Los Angeles Festival of Movies opens Thursday with MADDIE’S SECRET and features CHRONOVISOR, AFTER DREAMING, WITH HASAN IN GAZA, BLUE HERON … www.criterion.com/current/post...

“The Lubitsch Touch” opens tomorrow @filmforumnyc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

So, some news. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Mani Haghighi @newyorker.com, Ken and Flo Jacobs @screenslate.bsky.social + @nytimes.com, Sophy Romvari and Martha Coolidge @ebertvoices.bsky.social, Kiyoshi Kurosawa @reverseshot.bsky.social, Ricky D’Ambrose and Radu Jude @ Filmmaker … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

From @eflux.bsky.social, a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and the late Alexander Kluge that took place on January 1, 2017 — www.e-flux.com/notes/678347...

IN JACKSON HEIGHTS (2015) screens Sunday @ MoMI, “This Is America at 250: Frederick Wiseman” is on @ Digital Gym in San Diego, and “Frederick Wiseman’s America” opens next week @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AVK...

“Lucrecia Martel: Un destino común” opens Saturday @bampfa.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Très bien. deadline.com/2026/04/clai...