Family Films continue this summer with artful animations and amazing animal adventures!
Member pre-sale tickets now available for the Human Rights Watch Film Festival (June 13 – 23)!
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself celebrates a life lived fully, richly and strangely. Opens tomorrow!
Seven fed-up Americans fight to make large corporations pay their fair share in Art of the Real doc We're Not Broke
Augustine is a NYT Critics' Pick: "a vivid and feverish debut feature." Now playing!
Eugene Hernandez shares his list of seven films to know (so far) from this year's Cannes Film Festival, from new works by the Coen brothers, Kore-eda, and Farhadi to discoveries like Omar and Stranger By the Lake.
Steven Soderbergh appeared to soften his declaration that he was leaving filmmaking today in Cannes. The Oscar-winning director will unveil his HBO-produced feature Behind the Candelabra tonight in competition.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will showcase the work of Argentinian filmmaker Matías Piñeiro during the upcoming Latinbeat film festival (July 12 – 21) and will simultaneously open two of his films, Viola (ND/NF '13) and Rosalinda, on July 12.
Italian actor-turned-director Valeria Golino talks about her form-first approach to filmmaking, portraying a contemporary female character in a cinematic way, and the American directors who influenced her work in our podcast from Cannes.
In the first of our podcast interviews from the Cannes Film Festival, Amat Escalante discusses his Palme d'Or competitor, being a spokesperson for his native Mexico, and why he thinks the brutal depiction of violence in Heli is more responsible than in American blockbusters.
Ari Folman's followup to his Oscar nominated Waltz With Bashir blends futurism with retro animation to paint a dizzying and bleak portrait of the future of moviemaking. As if that weren't enough, it's based on a Stanisław Lem novel and stars Robin Wright as herself (sort of).
Oscar winning director Asghar Farhadi spoke about his fascination with spousal relationships and his internal assimilation of censorship during a Cannes press conference for his new film Le Passé (The Past).
Check out the trailers for this weekend's offerings at Film Society: New Releases Augustine and Cape Spin!, Burt Lancaster gems The Leopard and The Flame and The Arrow, and animated family delight The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear!
Le Joli Mai: FILM COMMENT editors and contributors gather to suss out the good, the bad, and the ugly of Cannes 2013
Steven Soderbergh’s irresistibly entertaining Liberace biopic comes out on top at Cannes
Live from the Croisette, it's Robert Koehler. First up: Sicilian gangster gumption, courtesy of Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
