One of the best years for movies, but unlike other neighbours in the 1970s, I don't hear it spoken of as such very often. I love all these movies, there are no stragglers on this list,
Subjects for further research. It's often the case that great directors don't end with the film you wished they ended with. They outstay their welcome, culturally speaking, and churn out one or two last films that—often
Over the past 11 years, selecting the first film of the year has, for whatever reason, developed into a deeply personal ritual of renewal for me. I take it seriously, probably because I can sense that,
Major personal discoveries from a year in moviegoing. I travelled to many festivals this year and saw a large number of these films in cinemas, projected digitally or in 35mm. Yet I also see that many
Some key films from the year that I've liked.
A complete list of films that were to show in my retrospective Reimagining the Land at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Thanks to COVID-19, most showed online, some will show in Sheffield in late 2020, and some didn't show
Still an underrated British director with an uneven and tragically truncated filmography. Dead of Night stands for his "Haunted Mirror" segment. The first four films are extraordinary, the next four have very good qualities, and the
My highly scientific and accurate ranking of the feature films of Hong Sangsoo. I wrote a long text about his work 7 years ago (!) for the MUBI Notebook, which, thanks to his extraordinary speed in
Highlights from my year of watching movies. As usual, I generally don't include major classics, even really great ones (like, say, Stalker in Prague's Kino Aero or The Wind in Bologna's Piazza Maggiore), unless they rise
"During the screening of the film o.k., the film was interrupted. The jury, presided by American film director George Stevens, decided after a 7-2 vote to demand Berlinale director Alfred Bauer, who was present at the