A beam of light is reflected in the eye of a donkey in the poster for Alison McAlpine’s PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS (2024).
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 …
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Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin laugh it up in George Marshall’s Money from Home (1953).
Cinema Revival, the festival of film restoration at the Wexner Center for the Arts, opens today ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
26.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Albert Hall and Denzel Washington look up a few things in a prison library in Spike Lee’s MALCOLM X (1992).
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...
25.02.2026 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Sadism disguised with this lacework of words.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwaq...
A poster for İlker Çatak’s YELLOW LETTERS, the winner of this year’s Golden Bear.
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 lines up a shot for UNSANE (2018) with an iPhone.
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 …
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The logo for the Moirée Podcast is naturally a capital M.
Moirée at the #Berlinale. You’ve seen the grid. Now listen to the podcasts — moir.ee/podcasts/moi...
20.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A 1981 photo of Frederick Wiseman by Robert Whittington.
Remembering Frederick Wiseman … www.criterion.com/current/post...
19.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Robert Duvall with half a smile, a vest, a scruffy beard, and a tall cowboy hat.
Remembering Robert Duvall … www.criterion.com/current/post...
18.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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/
Frederick Wiseman with headphones and a warm smile.
Today is just merciless. Frederick Wiseman, a giant, has died at 96.
@nytimes.com — www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...
A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.
16.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 2099 🔁 483 💬 54 📌 31
Had a great time talking with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social here at the #Berlinale about Alain Gomis’s DAO, Juan Pablo Sallato’s THE RED HANGAR, and Karim Aïnouz’s ROSEBUSH PRUNING on The Last Thing I Saw — podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
15.02.2026 22:38 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Diane Keaton with a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other in Richard Brooks’s LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (1977).
Diane Keaton @ 4Columns, TAXI DRIVER @ 50 @npr.org + @theguardian.com, @robrubsam.bsky.social on spiritual cinema @thebaffler.com, THE BORDER (1982) @newyorker.com, Bardot @lrb.co.uk …
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Pretty high on my most-anticipated list. Premieres Sunday.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDCz...
Bud Cort in a tie and turned-up collar—and with a knowing smile.
Yes, Bud Cort could play an oddball, but always in a slyly endearing way. So sorry to hear he’s gone at 77.
@indiewire.com — www.indiewire.com/news/obituar...
Margaret Sullavan in a hat and fur is reflected a zillion times over in two mirrors facing each other in William Wyler’s THE GOOD FAIRY (1935).
Opening Friday:
Noir City Seattle @siffnews.bsky.social, the Nitrate Film Festival @amcinematheque.bsky.social, and Cinéma du Cashiers @bambrooklyn.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Divine is upside down and laughing in John Waters’s MULTIPLE MANIACS (1970).
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative will celebrate 65 years on Friday with screenings and a benefit gala featuring a tribute to Ken and Flo Jacobs and awards for Nan Goldin, Joan Jonas, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, John Waters, and the Jack Smith Archive — www.criterion.com/current/post...
10.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Find someone who’ll love you the way Laura Dern loves movies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZ...
The sun hangs low over the horizon in a scene from Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar’s VARIATIONS ON A THEME (2026).
So #IFFR2026 wrapped over the weekend. Here’s a brief overview of the award winners and a few critical favorites — www.criterion.com/current/post...
09.02.2026 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not the overall trend, but how quickly the spread got so wide? A little, tbh.
07.02.2026 11:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Europeans were asked in a YouGov poll conducted last month, “Overall, do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of the US?” On average, respondents in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Great Britain are going two to one, unfavorable over favorable.
Not high on the list of fires to be put out, but as an American living in Europe, it is dispiriting to realize that it’ll take generations to rectify this … www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
07.02.2026 10:31 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The top 20 includes Elaine May’s A NEW LEAF (1971), Pasolini’s ACCATTONE (1961), Ozu’s AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1962), Claire Denis’s BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) …
Good to see @lacinetek.bsky.social doing these lists again. 30 favorites from Kelly Reichardt @letterboxd.social — letterboxd.com/lacinetek/li...
06.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Orson Welles sets up a scene in THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942).
An AI-driven reconstruction of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS @newyorker.com, Wes Anderson @thepointmag.bsky.social, Michael Almereyda @nytimes.com + @hammertonail.bsky.social + @screenslate.bsky.social, @szacharek.bsky.social on the underappreciated …
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Andrzej Wajda gestures on set.
“Andrzej Wajda: Portraits of History and Humanity” is on now at BFI Southbank — www.criterion.com/current/post...
05.02.2026 20:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Semi-competent detectives are up late in the office in Bong Joon Ho’s MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003).
The MoMA series “Seoul After Dark: Personal Memories of Korean Cinema” is on through February 25 — www.criterion.com/current/post...
05.02.2026 19:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s happening after all!
variety.com/2026/film/gl...
Catherine O’Hara out on the street at night in Martin Scorsese’s AFTER HOURS (1985).
Been Berlinale previewing, and now it’s time to do some catching up:
Notes on the winners of the awards at Sundance … www.criterion.com/current/post...
And remembering the great, great Catherine O’Hara … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Madjid Niroumand looks back at the camera in Amir Naderi’s THE RUNNER (1984).
Amir Naderi and Bahram Beyzaie @ Metrograph, Joan Crawford and Robert Aldrich @ 4Columns, Hlynur Pálmason @reverseshot.bsky.social, Reginald Hudlin @letterboxd.social and @indiewire.com, Béla Tarr @eflux.bsky.social …
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