Nicolas Roeg @sightsoundmag.bsky.social + @lwlies.com, Jerry Lewis @theaterofmatters.bsky.social + @robert-emmet.bsky.social + @screenslate.bsky.social, @carolineavenue.bsky.social @ InRO, “cinema’s libido” @ Club Ciné, Béla Tarr … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Remembering Alexander Kluge … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Happy birthday to Gloria Swanson and happy publication day to my new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY, available from @stickingplacebk.bsky.social here stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

“Meiko Kaji: A Retrospective” opens tomorrow @japansociety.org ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Writer, artist, philosopher, director Alexander Kluge (YESTERDAY GIRL, GERMANY IN AUTUMN), has died at 94. In 1962, he was one of 26 to sign the Oberhausen Manifesto, an unofficial “launch” of the New German Cinema. And his DCTP programs ran on German TV for years. www.spiegel.de/kultur/alexa...

This year’s Locarno retrospective, “Red & Black: Hollywood Left and the Blacklist,” is curated once again by Ehsan Khoshbakht, so you know it’ll be outstanding. www.locarnofestival.ch/press/press-...

Initial critical response to Claire Denis’s THE FENCE was not great, but I’m still curious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzQz...

“Sixties Shinoda” opens Friday @ Harvard Film Archive ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Il Cinema Ritrovato previews its 40th edition, announcing programs dedicated to Barbara Stanwyck, Mitchell Leisen, Luchino Visconti, Joséphine Baker, Daisuke Ito, Gunvor Nelson & Éric Duvivier, and the films of 1906 and 1926 — mailchi.mp/cineteca.bol...

“Mexico Noir,” a 15-film @viffest.bsky.social series programmed by novelist @silviamg.bsky.social, opens Thursday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Sergei Loznitsa is @amcinematheque.bsky.social today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, taking questions about TWO PROSECUTORS (2025), THE TRIAL (2018), MY JOY (2010), and DONBASS (2018) — www.criterion.com/current/post... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_miF...

Chantal Akerman, Satyajit Ray, Ken Jacobs, Jocelyne Saab, Peter Watkins, Vilgot Sjöman, Bergman, Ozu, Bazin … It’s Tillo Huygelen’s Spring Books roundup @sabzian.bsky.social ! sabzian.be/news/new-boo...

The Lumière brothers @slantmagazine.com, TESTAMENT @thr.com, Kaizo Hayashi @ Metrograph, John Smith @eflux.bsky.social + @thequietus.com, Christian Petzold @ 4Columns + @letterboxd.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Featured in this month’s books roundup: JLG, Chantal Akerman, Liza Minnelli, Bob Dylan, Gus Van Sant, Yoshiko Shibaki … www.criterion.com/current/post...

“As beautiful as Renoir” — Jacques Rivette New trailer for the 4K restoration of Maurice Pialat’s 7-episode miniseries LA MAISON DES BOIS (1971), finally arriving in the U.S. on April 22: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHC...

News of the Emile de Antonio program coming to the Channel in April has me revisiting @edhalter.bsky.social’s piece (4columns.org/halter-ed/em...) on these “unashamedly oppositional, formally inventive, and stubbornly class-conscious” films about McCarthyism 1.0, homegrown revolutionaries, and …

The first poster for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden has arrived ahead of a likely Cannes debut. Learn more: thefilmstage.com/first-poster...

BFI Flare 2026 opens tonight ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Trailer for Sophy Romvari’s (@sophyromvari.bsky.social) debut feature, BLUE HERON, opening on April 17 — www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeWg...

Christian Petzold is in New York this week as @filmlinc.bsky.social presents a series of his films in the run-up to the U.S. release of MIROIRS NO. 3 — www.criterion.com/current/post... Here’s the little story I refer to at the top of today’s Daily: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTES...

🍃 In a bucolic forest, a naked man walks among the trees. The image by Alain Guiraudie, poised between desire and reverie, turns nature into a territory of fiction. The poster for the 58th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight invites us to lose ourselves in mysterious woods.

I was mightily impressed by Sho Miyake’s SLOW, SMALL BUT STEADY (2022) and ALL THE LONG NIGHTS (2024), so yes, very much looking forward to this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC0x...

A bit of reading about last night’s Oscar winners — www.criterion.com/current/post...

On this year’s Oscar movies (and Melania), for @nplusonemag.com: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

With the Boris Barnet retrospective now on @ Metrograph, @outskirtsmag.bsky.social has opted to make its first issue, featuring a Barnet dossier, freely available as a PDF — outskirtsmag.com/shop

Juliette Binoche @ Metrograph, Robert Benton @southwestreview.bsky.social, Berlinale filmmakers’ favorite moments @ MUBI, Marilyn Monroe @ MoMA, @another-gaze.bsky.social returns … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Today, a selective roundup of fine writing on some of this year’s Oscar contenders — www.criterion.com/current/post...

'While cinephilia seems to be back with new catching enthusiasm, in line with a certain ‘vibe shift’, it often resembles an old version, one that we set out to remedy ten years ago – masculine French cinephilia, encore' We are back with 12 new pieces of writing. www.anothergaze.com/another-gaze...

Bani Khoshnoudi is in Toronto this week to present “More Than a Witness: The Films of Jocelyne Saab” and her own award-winning feature, THE VANISHING POINT @tiffnet.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Boris Barnet, A Soviet Poet,” a 12-film retrospective of work by a filmmaker championed by Godard, Rivette, and Bazin, opens Friday @ Metrograph ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

A comprehensive Agnès Varda retrospective opens Friday @filmforumnyc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Hiroshi Shimizu @outskirtsmag.bsky.social, John Akomfrah @ Brooklyn Rail, Robert Vas @prospectmagazine.co.uk, Jonathan Rosenbaum @chicagoreader.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Rendez-Vous with French Cinema” opens tonight @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

True/False Film Fest 2026 opens tomorrow ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Had to work into today’s preview of “Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics,” opening Saturday @bampfa.bsky.social, a link to @newyorker.com’s outstanding interview with activist Mehdi Mahmoudian, who worked with Jafar Panahi on IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT — www.criterion.com/current/post...

“The Fantastic Realism of Georges Franju” opens tomorrow at L’Alliance New York ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Tony Kushner on Spielberg’s MUNICH @gqmagazine.bsky.social, Walter Murch on PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS @thefilmstage.com, Satyajit Ray @ 4Columns, Darren Aronofsky’s AI slop @newrepublic.com, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Cinema Revival, the festival of film restoration at the Wexner Center for the Arts, opens today ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Featured in this month’s books roundup: A survey of Black cinema, lots of new New Hollywood titles, and a piece on watching movies with poet John Ashbery — www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Sadism disguised with this lacework of words.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwaq...

Try as some might, there was no escaping politics at this year’s #Berlinale. And some films won awards, too ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Steven Soderbergh @letterboxd.social + @bkmag.bsky.social, Raymond Depardon @newyorker.com, Jean-Luc Godard @newleftreview.bsky.social, John Schlesinger @theguardian.com, short films by Mona Fastvold and Ricky D’Ambrose … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Moirée at the #Berlinale. You’ve seen the grid. Now listen to the podcasts — moir.ee/podcasts/moi...

Remembering Frederick Wiseman … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Remembering Robert Duvall … www.criterion.com/current/post...

A gentle giant, Tom Noonan was a singular character actor in Manhunter, Heat, Last Action Hero, and Synecdoche, New York, and the writer-director-star (+ more) behind What Happened Was.... An imposing presence with rare depth and intelligence, he will be missed. RIP, 1951–2026

Critics are rating #Berlinale films … @ Moirée — moir.ee/editions/ber... @criticde.bsky.social — jury.critic.de/berlinale/

Today is just merciless. Frederick Wiseman, a giant, has died at 96. @nytimes.com — www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...