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Our trailer for Alain Guiraudie's slyly funny thriller MISERICORDIA. 🍄 The "surprisingly hilarious yet unsurprisingly horny" latest from the director of STRANGER BY THE LAKE arrives in theaters on 3/21. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wk2...

Zeinabu irene Davis, Chantal Akerman and Aurore Clément, Claude Lanzmann, Wang Bing, Amy Irving and Joan Micklin Silver … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Remembering Souleymane Cissé … www.criterion.com/current/post...

For @lacinetek.bsky.social, Sean Baker lists 50 favorites @letterboxd.social — letterboxd.com/lacinetek/li...

Souleymane Cissé, one of the fathers of African cinema, dies at 84

#Berlinale Notes on my own favorite film in the main competition so far, Richard Linklater’s BLUE MOON — www.criterion.com/current/post...

#Berlinale Clip from Ira Sachs’s PETER HUJAR’S DAY (1’34”) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubAF...

Charles Burnett’s KILLER OF SHEEP (1978), newly restored. Trailer (1’50”) www.youtube.com/watch?v=brGh... Clip (1’21”) www.criterion.com/films/34233-...

#Berlinale Trailer for Radu Jude’s KONTINENTAL ’25 (0’45”) www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-j...

I spoke with Pedro Costa about António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro. Hope to see you in the cinema this weekend.

“Chantal and I, it just happened all by itself, without us saying, ‘We’re going to work together for our whole lives.’ It was great.” @phlode.bsky.social talks to Aurore Clément about her collaborations with Chantal Akerman www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

DUTCHMAN, Chantal Akerman, Ang Lee, Akira Kurosawa, the latest tributes to David Lynch … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

A few words on Tom Tykwer’s THE LIGHT, which has just opened this year’s #Berlinale — www.criterion.com/current/post...

An abandoned satire shot during the political and social revolution of Paris in 1968, featuring a cameo by Jean-Luc Godard, has been completed half a century later and will make its NY premiere this month. Watch our exclusive trailer premiere for Moi-même:

#Berlinale Trailer for Vivian Qu’s GIRLS ON WIRE (1’16”) www.youtube.com/watch?v=30wK...

#NewYorker100 Looking ahead to “Tales from the New Yorker,” a series of more than 30 films screening at Film Forum from February 21 through March 6 — www.criterion.com/current/post...

We're delighted to exclusively share the first poster for Radu Jude’s Berlinale premiere Kontinental ’25, paying homage to a Roberto Rossellini classic: thefilmstage.com/exclusive-po...

I've been waiting years—decades—for Toute une nuit, one of Chantal Akerman's best films and therefore one of the best films of all, to become widely available; now that it's on @criterionchannel.bsky.social, time to detail its wonders: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The #Berlinale will screen several critical favorites fresh from their premieres at #Sundance — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Rotterdam’s Tiger Award winner looks like something else … www.criterion.com/current/post...

#Berlinale A promising clip from Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s HOT MILK featuring Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw @ MUBI (1’20”) www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOT...

For today’s Lynch tribute essay, Mark Asch recalls the sultry summer of 2017, when Dale Cooper returned to television and the world was forever changed. Illustration by Stephanie Monohan

Sara Gómez, Frederick Wiseman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vittorio De Sica, David Lynch … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Rob Tregenza has worked with Godard, Béla Tarr, Alex Cox … His new film, THE FISHING PLACE, sees its North American premiere tonight @ MoMA — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Ok, what? And if this actually goes ahead, it won’t be with that title, right? deadline.com/2025/02/roon...

Janus and @sideshow.bsky.social are bringing Ira Sachs’s PETER HUJAR’S DAY to theaters in the fall. I had to miss the #Berlinale press preview, but I will definitely be catching this one during the festival — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Looking ahead to “Conjuring NOSFERATU: Robert Eggers Presents,” running from tomorrow through Sunday @filmlinc.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

#Berlinale Directed by Ulrike Ottinger, cowritten with Elfriede Jelinek, and starring Isabelle Huppert as Elizabeth Báthory, THE BLOOD COUNTESS heads to market. The cast also features Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Thomas Schubert, and André Jung. @variety.com — variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Oh, good. Cristian Mungiu’s all set to begin shooting FJORD next month with Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. Two families in a remote Norwegian village get along fine—until they don’t. @cineuropa.bsky.social — cineuropa.org/en/newsdetai...

Notes on the winners of this year’s #Sundance awards — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Now Playing! www.criterionchannel.com/sara-gomez-s...

This 2003 portrait of Mike Leigh by Stuart Pearson Wright has always been a favorite. And of course, it’s great to see Leigh’s already at work on his next film — deadline.com/2025/01/mike...

Peter Weir, Leos Carax, Catherine Breillat, remembrances of Marianne Faithfull and David Lynch … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Not gorgeous, but nice—and commendably bold to choose not to go with the pretty young faces of Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. www.parkcircus.com/latest/P2823...

New at my place, I have a post about "Cast Against Type: Heroes as Villains," the 11-film series now playing @criterionchannel.bsky.social: notes on the individual films, the stars and the historical background. No paywall: selfstyledsiren.substack.com/p/cast-again...

So sorry to hear of the passing of Marianne Faithfull. There’s that lovely moment in MADE IN U.S.A., of course, but she was absolutely winning, too, in IRINA PALM. @theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Frederick Wiseman, Jerry Schatzberg, Chantal Akerman, Weegee, Sergei Loznitsa, Georges Méliès, Pema Tseden, a pair of rarely raucous Japanese films, storyboards galore … A great movie weekend begins now — www.criterion.com/current/post...

IndieWire has the trailer for the new restoration of Zeinabu irene Davis’s COMPENSATION (1999) — www.indiewire.com/news/trailer...

David Lynch, Lee Chang-dong, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Terrence Malick, Wes Anderson, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Luca Guadagnino, António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, Ulrike Ottinger … This month’s big books roundup — www.criterion.com/current/post...

This is the #Sundance premiere I’ve been most curious about, and now that the first reviews are out, I’m looking forward to seeing it at the #Berlinale even more than before. Mary Bronstein’s IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Harmony Korine, Charlotte Zwerin, Sergei Eisenstein, new issues of Notebook and @sensesofcinema.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

The new @sensesofcinema.bsky.social features interviews with Matthew Rankin and Athina Rachel Tsangari, articles on Kore-eda and horror, festival reports, book reviews, and the massive World Poll 2024 — www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...

The #Berlinale screening marks 80 years since the end of WWII and the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp as well as Lanzmann’s centenary and the 40th anniversary of the film itself. New trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g-L...

David Cronenberg lists 37 favorites for @lacinetek.bsky.social, and, well, yes, of course. @letterboxd.social — letterboxd.com/lacinetek/li...

Drawing, as always, from the wisdom of others: Remembering David Lynch … www.criterion.com/current/post...