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§ 02 Recent
Latest arrivals
The Biopic as Brand Management
The Architecture of Belonging: Ragnhild Ekner’s "Ultras"
The Restoration of Singapore’s First Action Heroine
The Measured Art of Nathalie Baye
A Tide Out of Time: Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada
The Fragmented Mechanics of Trauma in Departures
The Institutional Eye: Mapping the Global Film Circuit
Dissecting the New Cinematic Landscape: From Horror to Art-House
The Weather in Lynch’s Tunnel
§ 03 Editor's picks
- 01Film · Little White Lies
The Architecture of Influence: Olivier Assayas Decodes the Kremlin
In a sprawling, three-hour adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli’s novel, French auteur Olivier Assayas explores the surreal intersection of media production and Russian political power.
- 02Film · Film Comment
The Pedagogy of Sight: Scott MacDonald on Comprehending Cinema
Scholar Scott MacDonald discusses the challenges of teaching experimental film to a new generation and the rigorous process of truly "comprehending" moving images.
- 03Film · David Bordwell Blog
The Bond Exception: Why Amazon Doesn't Fully Own 007
The $8.45 billion MGM acquisition gave Amazon a legendary catalog, but the James Bond franchise remains a unique holdout against the totalizing logic of the streaming era.
- 04Film · MUBI Notebook
The Architecture of Interruption: Animating Life in Shamattawa
Filmmakers Seth and Peter Scriver spent nearly a decade turning the chaotic realities of a remote First Nations reserve into an intimate, animated family portrait.
- 05Film · Little White Lies
The Architecture of Attention: Inside a 24-Hour Cinema Experiment
As traditional moviegoing etiquette fades, a London event explores what happens when we replace rigid rules with radical flexibility.
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The Fragmented Ambition of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
Following the visceral success of Evil Dead Rise, director Lee Cronin falters with a sprawling, incoherent expansion of a classic horror franchise.
Ferzan Özpetek’s Meta-Melodramatic Tribute to the Labor of Cinema
In "Diamanti," the Turkish-Italian filmmaker blurs the lines between performance and production, centering the seamstresses who build the visual worlds of the screen.
The Persistent Present of Barbara Kopple
As Los Angeles hosts the "This Is Not a Fiction" festival, the filmmaker’s seminal documentaries on American labor struggles receive a timely restoration.
The medical fault lines of Beef Season 2
The second season of the A24 and Netflix drama shifts its focus from road rage to the systemic failures of reproductive healthcare.
The Architecture of Absence: Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron
In her debut feature, the filmmaker synthesizes a career spent investigating the porous boundaries between family history, migration, and the cinematic image.
The Transpacific Resonance of Country Roads
A new podcast season explores how John Denver’s 1971 anthem became an unlikely pillar of Japanese animation.
Alfred Hitchcock and the Mechanics of Release
Examining the psychological bridge between horror and hilarity in the work of cinema’s master of suspense.
The Formal Evolution of the New Directors/New Films Festival
As the annual showcase at Lincoln Center and MoMA enters its second week, Clemente Castor’s "Cold Metal" exemplifies a new wave of opaque, genre-blurring cinema.
Christian Petzold’s Cinema of Ambiguity
In his latest psychodrama, the German director examines the unsettling calm that follows a tragedy, trading traditional grief for a haunting, Ravel-inspired study of dislocation.
The Architecture of the Fringe: Cannes 2026 Completes Its Map
While the Official Selection captures the headlines, the announcement of the 2026 sidebar lineups reveals where the festival’s true kinetic energy resides.
Kantemir Balagov’s Long-Awaited Return to Cannes
Kantemir Balagov’s New Jersey-set drama "Butterfly Jam" leads an eclectic slate of nineteen features at the 58th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight.
Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail Reimagines the Dystopia of Aging
In Gabriel Mascaro’s latest film, a state-mandated retirement age becomes a tool for social engineering and a catalyst for a surreal journey of resistance.