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Season Spotlight: “Amour”
"A masterpiece about life, death, and everything in between," writes The New York Times' Manohla Dargis of Michael Haneke's Amour, which, after winning the Palme d'Or in Cannes nearly seven months...
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“The Grandmasters” to Open Berlinale; First Trailer for “To the Wonder”
Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster The Grandmaster to Open Berlinale 2013 On Wednesday, Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster was revealed as the Opening Night selection for the 63rd Berlin International Film...
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Academy Narrows Foreign Oscar Race to 9 Films
Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg's Kon-Tiki Nine new foreign language films are vying for the top prize in international cinema at the 85th Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
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Season Spotlight: “Brave”
Pixar came out of the gate sprinting. Toy Story, the venerable animation studio’s first film, was a revelation for mainstream American animation: a film made in a style associated (then even more than...
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The 10 Best Movies of 2012!
What is your favorite movie of 2012? In a New York Times Magazine article earlier this month, A.O. Scott wrote about the state of cinema under the headline, "Film Culture Isn’t Dead After All." "I...
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Season Spotlight: “The Master”
Long before the brilliantly confounding first trailer for The Master arrived last May at the Cannes Film Festival, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film was the target of much excitement and slight...
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Dolly Shots and Polyglots
Cate Shortland's Lore (Australia) Stateside awards for foreign language cinema are a sure bet for controversy. The complaints run the gamut from the politically tinged nature of the selection process...
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Anticipation, Resolutions, and a Dash of Mystery for 2013
Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Renner in James Gray's upcoming film Lowlife Most Anticipated of 2013 Those who claim there aren't any good films being released these days might finally be silenced in...
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A Close-Up of Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami in his documentary 10 on Ten. The Film Society of Lincoln Center is proud to announce "A Close-Up of Abbas Kiarostami," a 10-day retsrospective devoted to the Iranian master...
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Film Critics Love Haneke
Michael Haneke's latest, winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, won the award for best picture in voting by the National Society of Film Critics. Gathered in New York City today...
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The Year Past and Upcoming in Indie, Women in Film, and a Sad Passing
Margarethe Von Trotta's Hannah Arendt Athena Film Festival Lineup On Monday the Athena Film Festival, a New York-based celebration of women in film, announced the slate for its third edition and we're...
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New York Critics Stoke Buzz for “Zero Dark Thirty,”“Lincoln”& More
Zero Dark Thirty filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal at the NYFCC awards last night. Photo by Dave Allocca/StarPix With Oscar nominations and Golden Globe awards on tap this week, the buzz for a...
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Gilded by the Guild Awards
Film and awards buffs are in store for a morning full of calls, texts, tweets and Facebook rants tomorrow when this year's Academy Awards nominations are announced at 8:30am (EST). The reactions are...
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British Oscars, Best Cinematographers, and Canadian Critics
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln Oscar Nominations The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced this morning, and over 60 nominations went to films that have played at Film Society of Lincoln...
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Oscar Loves “Lincoln”; “Amour”& “Beasts” Big
Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln. Awards season took a key turn this morning as the Oscar nominations were announced bright and early in Beverly Hills at the Wilshire Blvd. headquarters of the Academy of...
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Interview: Karen Thorsen & Tracie Holder, “Joe Papp in Five Acts”
Tracie Holder, Kevin Kline and Karen Thorsen. “The Public Theater… I named it after you.” —Radio announcement before one of Joe Papp’s plays. Director Tracie Holder is a filmmaker and consultant for...
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Golden Globes, Indie Grantees, DGA Doc Nominees
Ben Affleck's Argo Golden Globe Winners While a lot of what's been talked about today are the most controversial acceptance speeches and best gaffes, there actually were awards handed out at last...
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Shlocky Horror Picture Show
Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934) This article originally appeared in Tablet Magazine on August 30, 2012 and is reprinted here with the author's permission. It served as the inspiration for a...
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Nagisa Oshima: The Man Who Left His Will on Film
An era was thought to have come to an end with the mid-October death of one of Japan’s great cinema provocateurs, Koji Wakamatsu. An artist with an astonishingly powerful late career run, Wakamatsu’s...
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Interview: Zuzanna Solakiewicz, “Yorzeit”
Director Zuzanna Solakiewicz "If any nation lasts 2,000 years they will last forever and return to glory." —Rabbi Halberstam, Yorzeit Rabbi Halberstam’s words may reflect the entire history of the...
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