Festivals & Awards
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture
Our final dispatch from the fest is full of monsters, folktales, and ghost stories.
It’s The Funniest Shit: Hikari on ‘Rental Family’
An interview with the writer/director of “Rental Family.”
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Mamoru Oshii on “Angel’s Egg”
An interview with a legend about his resurrected project.
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Mother Bhumi,” “Morte Cucina,” “We Are the Fruits of the First,” “Tunnels: Sun in the Dark”
Three more films from the Tokyo Film Festival
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Journey into Sato Tadao
We talk to Japan’s preeminent film critic as a documentary about him premieres at Tokyo’s premier festival.
Frankenstein
Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is a breathtaking coup, an exhilarating riposte to the conventional wisdom about dream projects.
Peter Hujar’s Day
A surprisingly beautiful and subtle tribute to the balancing act it takes to be a working artist.
A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
A preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival.
Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend
A report on the Criterion Mobile Closet’s visit to Chicago.
Nouvelle Vague
Linklater not only pays his respects to Godard but also shares that adoration for his craft with his own audience.
CIFF 2025: One Golden Summer, Before the Call, Adult Children, Only Heaven Knows
On four Chicago productions from this year’s fest.
CIFF 2025: The Book of Sijjin & Illiyyin, The Holy Boy, Anything That Moves
On three films from this year’s After Dark program in Chicago.
CIFF 2025: True North, Pasa Faho, Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
On three films from Chicago’s Black Perspectives program.
CIFF 2025: The Beauty of the Donkey, The Eyes of Ghana, Below the Clouds
On three ambitious documentaries from this year’s Chicago film festival.
CIFF 2025: “Wind, Talk to Me,” “Brand New Landscape,” “The Girl in the Snow”
On three projects from new directors at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
A soulful and meditative character study of a depressed artist laid bare.
