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_...

Following AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend... (in case there are any dishes or patriarchies unbroken), you are invited to join Cinema's First Nasty Women for a rousing revue of BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY! Nov 10-13: 10 films, 4 screenings, total mayhem. silver.afi.com/movies/detai...

The second AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend is on from Thursday through Sunday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Remembering Peter Watkins … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Tonight! @bambrooklyn.bsky.social presents new restorations of two early features by Olivier Assayas, PARIS AWAKENS (1991) and A NEW LIFE (1993) — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Wong Kar Wai’s Blossoms Shanghai is finally coming to the U.S. this month.

Still impressed by this series of posters for a 2018 Peter Watkins retrospective presented by Wolf Kino in Berlin.

The remarkable filmmaker Peter Watkins—THE WAR GAME (1966), PRIVILEGE (1967), PUNISHMENT PARK (1971), EDVARD MUNCH (1974), LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871 (2000) has died. He’d just turned 90 on Wednesday. @theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Marta Mateus (BARBS, WASTELAND; FIRE OF WIND) is presenting and discussing her work and influences @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, the Siskel + Doc Films, @acropoliscinema.bsky.social, and @bampfa.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

‘During​ a four or five-year period at the turn of the millennium, I went to the cinema around six hundred times. I wasn’t a film critic or even an aspiring director. I was just a schoolboy and, in my parents’ probably loving description, a “weirdo”.’ Leo Robson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The nominations for this year’s Gotham Awards are out, and each of the four front-runners takes a unique approach to a world that’s about to snap. www.criterion.com/current/post...

The second edition of Directors’ Fortnight Extended is on this week and next at the Roxy Cinema and L’Alliance in New York and @acropoliscinema.bsky.social in Los Angeles — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Ashes to Ashes ...Toronto to Oslo - we got the exclusive trailer first look for Sofia Bohdanowicz's Measures for a Funeral bit.ly/4oHt2Dj

“Marx, Melodrama and Marcos: Lino Brocka from the Mid-1970s to the Early 1980s” opens Wednesday @melbcinematheque.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Björn Andrésen, the obscure object of Dirk Bogarde’s desire in Luchino Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE (1971) and the subject of Kristian Petri’s THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (2021), has died. He was 70. @thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Dennis Lim’s introduction to the Channel’s Edward Yang retrospective is personal, political, and just spot-on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnY7...

Michael Koresky launches A Few Great Pumpkins XX: “This is dark, silly, but also genuinely nasty stuff, and, while keeping its horrific violence off-screen, THE BAD SEED gets under the skin in ways unlike any other movie.” @reverseshot.bsky.social — reverseshot.org/archive/entr...

Ken Russell @slantmagazine.com + @avclub.com, Clint Eastwood + Juraj Herz @ Metrograph, Abel Ferrara @harpers.bsky.social, Billy Wilder @parisreview.bsky.social, Chantal Akerman @screenslate.bsky.social + Reveal … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Yes! Janus will be putting Sophy Romvari’s BLUE HERON in theaters next year. @variety.com — variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Pointers to raves for Rebecca Miller’s five-part series MR. SCORSESE — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Books! In this month’s roundup: Nicolas Roeg, Charlie Chaplin, Tilda Swinton, Ulrike Ottinger, Klaus Kinski, Bruce Lee, Ed Wood, Walter Murch, Jacques Derrida … www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Without Limits: The Films of Arturo Ripstein” opens Friday @bambrooklyn.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

To no one’s surprise, Tracy Letts’ @criterion.bsky.social Closet video is an all-timer. “Put on some pants and take your dissonance like a man.”

Jafar Panahi @vulture.com + @newrepublic.com, Lucile Hadžihalilović and Gaspar Noé @ Interview, London’s Film Society @ Sight and Sound, Susan Orlean (@susanorlean.bsky.social) @newyorker.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Howard Hawks, Werner Herzog, and Jafar Panahi retrospectives and full Criterion editions of YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, CAIRO STATION, BORN IN FLAMES … the Channel lines up for November ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Goings on in New York (Browning and Dylan, João César Monteiro, Youssef Chahine) and beyond (Jean Epstein, Frederick Wiseman, Kevin Jerome Everson) — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Remembering Diane Keaton … www.criterion.com/current/post...

At some point in our lives, haven’t we all had a crush on Diane Keaton? And now she’s gone at 79. @theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

“The ParAIax View” @ 16:9, Daniel Day-Lewis @slate.com, Miguel Gomes @nybooks.com, Wes Anderson @letterboxd.social, Sophie Fillières @ 4Columns … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan” opens this evening @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social (@japansociety.org) www.criterion.com/current/post...

Today’s a good day to catch up with @robrubsam.bsky.social’s excellent 2023 piece on László Krasznahorkai’s collaborations with Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Remembering Ken Jacobs … www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

#NYFF63 #LFF Mark Jenkin’s ROSE OF NEVADA, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner, screens once more in New York on Thursday, and three times next week in London — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Tonight! Carole Lombard in SUPERNATURAL (1933) — nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark...

So glad to hear that @12special.bsky.social has picked up Ildikó Enyedi’s SILENT FRIEND, winner of the FIPRESCI and Best New Talent (Luna Wedler) awards in Venice. @deadline.com — deadline.com/2025/10/sile... @guylodge.bsky.social’s review — variety.com/2025/film/re...

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday. www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

Did You See This #NYFF63 Special Edition? • Ulrich Köhler’s GAVAGAI • Claire Denis’s THE FENCE • Ronan Day-Lewis’s ANEMONE • Kamal Aljafari’s WITH HASAN IN GAZA • Mary Stephen’s SHADES OF SILK www.criterion.com/current/post...

Eric Rohmer’s first and only novel, ÉLISABETH, published in 1946, will be out in a new translation by Aaron Kerner next July. @mcnallyeditions.com — www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...

#NYFF63 Notes on nonfiction in the Main Slate: Gianfranco Rosi’s BELOW THE CLOUDS, Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: TERMS AND CONDITIONS, Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s COVER-UP, and Lucrecia Martel’s LANDMARKS — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Notes on the @austinfilm.bsky.social series of French New Wave classics Richard Linklater has programmed and on the two movies he’s got opening next month — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Wes Anderson “has located the great paradox of our era: that we are all forever out of step and out of touch with our rapidly changing times.” @bilgeebiri.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Ryusuke Hamaguchi introduces the @japansociety.org series “Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan” (October 9 through 18) @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social — www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVo2...

#NYFF63 Notes on Ben Rivers’s MARE’S NEST, Alexandre Koberidze’s DRY LEAF, and Lucio Castro’s DRUNKEN NOODLES — www.criterion.com/current/post...

More books! Jane Birkin, Hayao Miyazaki, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Joan Crawford, Werner Herzog, Lee Chang-dong … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Pasolini, Marguerite Duras, Jean Vigo, Radu Jude, Bertrand Bonello, Yvonne Rainer, and much, much more … The Autumn 2025 books roundup @sabzian.bsky.social — sabzian.be/news/new-boo...

#NYFF63 Trailer for Ulrich Köhler’s GAVAGAI — www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPD7... It won’t open in Germany until January, but here’s hoping some festival (14 Films?) gives us a preview!