CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
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Summertime Solitude: The Green Ray at 40

Pop-Stars Aren’t Born, They’re Made

A Cinema of Survivances: On Lucrecia Martel’s Nuestra tierra

Festivals ashore: Visual sovereignty and the urgency of Indigenous film festivals

Seven-Word Reviews | Il Cinema Ritrovato 2026

You, The Living

Nine Commercials by Roy Andersson
Neuchatel 2026 Daily: FISH, FISTS AND AMBERGRIS to EVIL DEAD BURN to IKATAN DARAH

Life Without Principle: “I Understand Completely”

Human Poems: Roy Andersson’s Songs from the Second Floor

A Radical Resurgence from the Rubble: Duncan Reekie’s BOOM! The Exploding Cinema and the New London Underground

Through the Looking Glass: The Gold Diggers

Japan Society’s “So as to Dream: The Eternal Mysteries of Kaizô Hayashi,” Part 1: The Maiku Hama Film Noir Trilogy
Sound And Vision: Yoshihiro Nishimura

The Current Debate | AI and Cinema, or: What Is a Film?

Making A Splash: Remembering Hockney Onscreen
Tribeca 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews, Good and Otherwise

Black Swan at the A.R.T: an unearthly medley of film, musical theatre and ballet

The Lost Art of Pixar Short Films
THE NEON DEMON Retrospective: Still More Than Skin Deep

Art for Fart’s Sake: In Praise of “South Park”

Movie Poster of the Week | Tony Stella in Memoriam
Sound And Vision: John Carney
Opening This Week: THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, LEVITICUS, THE VOICES OF OUR MOTHER
Echoes: 12 Wide Releases That Could Define the Second Half of 2026
Friday One Sheet: NIGHT NURSE

Sensory Pleasures and Queer Realities: A Queer East Confessional

Hiding Out in the Open: Marianne Jean-Baptiste in “Secrets & Lies”
Opening This Week: THE FURIOUS Fight Against Kidnappers, DISCLOSURE DAY Reveals We Are Not Alone, KRAKEN Brings a Norwegian Monster

Define Auteur: In defence of Under the Cherry Moon
Tribeca 2026: Kicking Off
Opening This Week: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Roar, POWER BALLAD Sings, CAROLINA CAROLINE Steals
Sound And Vision: Hiro Murai

Being Powerless but Ethical in Erdoğan’s New Turkey: İlker Çatak’s “Yellow Letters”
Now Playing: BACKROOMS Creeps, PRESSURE Salutes, THE CURRENTS Respects and Rewards
Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS

Primer | Veteran: The Action Films of Ryoo Seung-wan

Cannes Correspondences #3: Second Lives

Seven-Word Reviews | Cannes Film Festival 2026
Opening This Week: BACKROOMS Liminal Horror, PRESSURE Wartime Tension, THE CURRENTS Psychological Mystery
Sound And Vision: Timur Bekmambetov

The Last Of Us: Post-War Anxiety In The Birds At 60

The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70

Bad Education: Tár And The Sadistic In The Artistic

Echoes Of A Horror To Come: The Exorcist At Fifty

How A Brian Eno Documentary Has The Power To Change Film Making For Good

This Is Ourselves: Music And Memory In Aftersun

Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome At 40
