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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reviews of Werner Herzog’s BUCKING FASTARD may be mixed, but everyone agrees that Rooney and Kate Mara’s sister act is pretty winning — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Rooney and Kate Mara wear identical coffee-brown turtlenecks and jackets.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Arthur Harari’s THE UNKNOWN stumped more than a few viewers in Cannes, but it seems to have found its footing at #NYFF64 — www.criterion.com/current/post...

With her back to us, Léa Seydoux peers back at Niels Schneider in Arthur Harari’s THE UNKNOWN.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shirley Clarke, Orson Welles, George Cukor, Lynne Ramsay, Olivier Assayas, Bree Daniels … the September Books roundup ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Peter Strausfeld’s poster for Shirley Clarke’s THE CONNECTION (1961).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New @cineastemagazine.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, Winona Ryder @ Metrograph, Neil Jordan @letterboxd.social, @luxante.bsky.social on Renate Adler vs Pauline Kael @nybooks.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Deeply red roses are set against a white picket fence and the darkest yet clearest of blue skies in David Lynch’s BLUE VELVET (1986).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Farewell to Marina Vlady, who won a Best Actress Award in Cannes for her turn in Marco Ferreri’s THE CONJUGAL BED (1963) but is surely best known for her Juliette in Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (1967). She was 88. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

In a lobby card for 2 OR 3 THINGS, Vlady lies on a bed beneath Hans Hillmann’s poster for Luis Buñuel’s THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ (1955).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NYFF64 opens tomorrow @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

“Written & Directed by James Gray” and “Paper Tiger” are spelled out in two frames from the trailer.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beyond Fest opens tonight @amcinematheque.bsky.social ! bsky.app/profile/amci...

As Chris Hansen (TO CATCH A PREDATOR), Robert Pattinson gets up close and personal in Lance Oppenheim’s PRIMETIME.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NYFF64 “The reemergence of [Paula Delsol’s] LA DÉRIVE [1964] is part of one of the most significant phenomena in contemporary film culture: an archive fever running high enough to inspire delirium.” Erika Balsom @nybooks.com — www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

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Sand Castles | Erika Balsom

To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Long Live the Underground! Celebrating Six Decades of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop” opens tomorrow @ MoMA ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Frames from scenes of a bright light at night and a crawling baby in a diaper run along strips from Stan Brakhage’s ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT (1958).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The People have chosen. An overview of the winners of the top awards in Toronto — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Guitarricadelafuente stands atop ruins in Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s LA BOLA NEGRA.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The big Autumn 2026 books roundup is out from @sabzian.bsky.social ! sabzian.be/news/new-boo...

Covers of books on Radu Jude, David Lynch, Olivier Assayas, and Christopher Doyle.

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Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's my recap of Venice, Telluride and Toronto, including my rankings of every film I saw. Plus, I share some thoughts about the underrated pleasures of fall festival season.

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Venice/Telluride/Toronto 2026: The Wrap-Up and the Rankings

I've been going to film festivals long enough that I have a group of friends who I only see at them. Colleagues and pals who live in New Yor...

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Remembering Patricio Guzmán + Sarah Maldoror @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, BLACK ZOMBIE @letterboxd.social, Claire Denis and Suzanne Lindon @anothermag.com, Tsui Hark @ Metrograph, the UP series @theguardian.com and BBC … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

A face beams from a collage of bodies in Sarah Maldoror’s SAMBIZANGA (1972).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, we already know more than enough about the man, but critics find that there’s “a fearsome power” in the way Alex Gibney pulls it all together in MUSK — www.criterion.com/current/post...

An AP photo of Elon Musk looking … may quizzical, maybe confused. A little off, anyway.

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filmlinc.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🇨🇱 Rest well Patricio Guzmán (1941-2026), the great documentary filmmaker whose films included THE BATTLE OF CHILE trilogy and NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT. Read Sam Brodsky's interview with the filmmaker in Film Comment from 2023: filmcomment.com/interview-patricio-guzman-on-the-battle-of-chile

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Remembering Jeremy Thomas … www.criterion.com/current/post... 2015 portrait by @carlrandallart.bsky.social — www.carlrandall.com/london-portr...

Carl Randall on his painting: “Movie producer Jeremy Thomas chose Bar Italia in Soho as the backdrop of his portrait because it is close to his Recorded Picture Company office, he visits there regularly for coffee, and he likes Italian culture.”

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An overview of early critical response to this weekend’s award-winners in Venice — www.criterion.com/current/post...

As a housemaid and nanny, Mathilde Arcel—appearing in her first feature and the winner of this year’s best actress award—protects a young girl (Flora Yde Sander) in May el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion–winner, WOMAN UNKNOWN.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In this terrific road movie — Jeremy Thomas never flew to Cannes, but drove — @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social invites us to hang with the man and hear about what motivated him to ally with Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Roeg, Miike … www.criterionchannel.com/the-storms-o...

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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas - The Criterion Channel

Directed by Mark Cousins • 2021 • United Kingdom For decades, legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas has driven from England to the Cannes Film Festival. This time, he’s joined by acclaimed filmmaker ...

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of the greatest film producers, Jeremy Thomas, died last night. Bad Timing, Eureka, The Hit, Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Crash, Naked Lunch. I made it back from America to be with him at the end. We drank red wine and cried. Truly loved him.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Iranian cinema @ Brooklyn Rail, “Archive Fever” @thebaffler.com, NEPTUNE FROST @eflux.bsky.social, Pauline Kael @hedgehogreview.bsky.social, IT ENDS @defector.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Iranian men debate in a scene from Jafar Panahi’s NO BEARS (2022).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#Venezia83 With TOO MUCH SUGAR, Robert Greene ventures further into a territory where fiction and nonfiction are up to a lot more than a mere blurring of the lines — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Two men are laughing and roughhousing in a movie-within-a-movie, one of many in TOO MUCH SUGAR.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A lot of movies premiered in Venice and Telluride over the weekend, but few have garnered the kind of raves Lee Chang-dong’s POSSIBLE LOVE has — www.criterion.com/current/post...

The poster features the four leads: Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung, and Cho Yeo-jeong.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Mike Leigh on distributor Contemporary Films @theguardian.com + BFI, “reticent auteurs” @yalereview.bsky.social, Satyajit Ray @newyorker.com, westerns + horror @filmmakermagazine.com, Richard Linklater @latimes.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

The poster for Mike Leigh’s first feature, BLEAK MOMENTS (1971), featuring a small group gathered in a lower middle–class living room in British suburbia, may actually be a woodblock print?

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Danny Boyle’s INK, starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, and Claire Foy, has opened Venice, and the early reviews are pretty strong — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Claire Foy, Jack O’Connell, and Guy Pearce seem to be caught in a paparazzi’s flash in something like a placeholder for a forthcoming real poster for Danny Boyle’s INK.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

František Vláčil, Musclefest, Rockaway FF, Chinese artists @newyork.asiasociety.org, Mel Brooks’s favorites @amcinematheque.bsky.social, Chantal Akerman, Crossroads @sfcinematheque.bsky.social, Alice Diop @bampfa.bsky.social, and more goings on … www.criterion.com/current/post...

A devotee stands under the arches of a medieval church in František Vláčil’s MARKETA LAZAROVÁ (1967).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Rossellini, Buñuel, Lubitsch, Cassavetes, Wajda, Ann Hui, Alexander Kluge, Jaromil Jireš, Flora Gomes, Roger Corman, Ettore Scola … Notes on this year’s Venice Classics program — www.criterion.com/current/post...

George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman look mightily despondent in Roberto Rossellini’s JOURNEY TO ITALY (1954).

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filmlinc.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We’re thrilled to announce the world premiere of CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL as part of the Spotlight section of #NYFF64. The film will debut on October 1 at Alice Tully Hall on 35mm 🎞️ with Paul Thomas Anderson and Cameron Winter in attendance. #NYFF64 is presented in partnership with ROLEX.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not the usual suspect. This year’s retrospective presented by @filmmuseum.bsky.social and the Viennale is dedicated to Robert Aldrich! And there’ll be a book, too. www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/fi... www.viennale.at/en/preview/r...

The poster for the retrospective features Bette Davis in a still from HUSH . . . HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964).

Robert Aldrich, a large man, stands hands-on-hips on the cover the book edited by Christoph Huber.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Whit Stillman @theguardian.com, Frederick Wiseman @uniondocs.bsky.social + @nplusonemag.com, David Schwartz on Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, @kieferama.bsky.social on Nathaniel Dorsky @bampfa.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Pierre Le-Tan’s poster for Whit Stillman’s BARCELONA (1994).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Remembering Dolly Parton … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Dolly Parton with a scarf worn just so and big and beautiful smile.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“Bibliomania: A Preface to CHRONOVISOR” opens Friday @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

A text translated into English hovers over an Italian report: “A machine has been invented that photographs the past.”

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"They didn't understand it and I tried to make them see / That one is only poor only if they choose to be / Now I know we had no money but I was rich as I could be / In my coat of many colors my mama made for me / Made just for me." R.I.P. Dolly

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Having scored terrific reviews in Locarno, Anna Melikova and Isabelle Stever’s I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING now heads to the #NYFF — www.criterion.com/current/post...

A solarized red and light blue poster features the couple at the center of the story, Olya (Tania Myronyshena) and Oleh (Markus Bright).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Rachel Cusk, Erich von Stroheim, Robert Kramer, Eric Rohmer, Erika Balsom, David Bordwell, Miloš Forman … it’s this month’s books roundup ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

$Mirrored images of Natalie Portman are refracted in Darren Aronofsky’s BLACK SWAN (2010).$

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” Going out on a limb here ... this screening may not turn out to be a low-key affair. www.labiennale.org/en/news/new-...

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Biennale Cinema 2026 | A new film has been added to the program for the 83rd Venice Film Festival

NAZA, a documentary by The Guardian directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

David Lynch @latimes.com, Fatih Akin @nybooks.com, Samy Burch @filmmakermagazine.com, Francis Ford Coppola @ Metrograph, Adam Curtis @thequietus.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Laura Elena Harring walks down a palm-lined street in David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DR. (2001).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“The Cold Heart Is More Precious Than Diamonds: The Cinema of Graham Greene” opens tomorrow @ the Harvard Film Archive ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Looking relaxed, maybe even very relaxed, Carol Reed and Graham Greene lounge.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“As you get older, though, you start to see things again as if for the first time … “ A Criterion top 10 from Kent Jones — www.criterion.com/current/top-...

A woman clutches a skull in George Pratt’s cover for the Criterion release of Luchino Visconti’s THE DAMNED (1969).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Arthouse Sci-fi” opens Friday @bambrooklyn.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

From behind Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina spreads an open hand in front him in a pose for Jean-Luc Godard’s ALPHAVILLE (1965). Why? Who knows, but it pretty captures the chilly spirit of the movie.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

An overview of the films that won top awards in Locarno over the weekend — www.criterion.com/current/post...

The poster for Florin Șerban’s Golden Leopard winner YOU DON’T BELONG HERE shows a young man pulling a bike across a walkway under a looming dark gray concrete dam.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Powell and Pressburger @brightwalldarkroom.com, James Gray @avclub.com, Catherine Breillat @lrb.co.uk, Richard Linklater @indiewire.com, Isabelle Huppert on Claude Chabrol @ MUBI … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Standing beside Anton Walbrook, Michael Powell sets up a scene for THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ozu, Kurosawa, Oshima, Kitano, Obayashi, Shinji Somai … “Summer in Japan” opens tomorrow @bambrooklyn.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

The sky, the sea, a lighthouse, a bottle, and that’s it in a shot from Yasujiro Ozu’s FLOATING WEEDS (1959).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Rob Tregenza’s FAST premieres @ MoMA this evening and screens through Tuesday, when @acropoliscinema.bsky.social will present it in LA. Then on 8/20, @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social will present Tregenza’s TALKING TO STRANGERS (1988) — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Seated in her 1961 Lotus Formula 1 racing car, Madison Pankey stares right at us in Rob Tregenza’s FAST.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And here’s a quick overview of the series — www.criterion.com/current/post...

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Intimate Epics: The Films of Patrick Wang” is on at the Digital Gym Cinema in San Diego from tomorrow through August 24 ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Umbrellas and selfie sticks figure into a little musical number in Patrick Wang’s A BREAD FACTORY (2018).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Jane Schoenbrun @vulture.com, Ngozi Onwurah @filmmakermagazine.com, Jean Epstein @ Notebook, Kent Jones @thefilmstage.com, Stanley Kwan @nytimes.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Drenched in blood, Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson walk through a too-idyllic natural landscape in Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA.

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