On October 11, 1975, the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” was broadcast on NBC, and the opening credits featured a series of photos of Manhattan shot by model-turned-photographer (and my cousin) Edie Baskin. She
Lyrical and elegiac even while being rooted in hope and tenderness, director Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” moves with the grace of a liturgy. The film centers on a logger, Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), whose work
A profoundly moving portrait of a family reckoning with the painful memories embedded deep within the walls of their ancestral home, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” finds the filmmaker reflecting once more on the existential themes—of
In December of 1974, two close friends talked as a tape recorder captured their conversation. It was part of a project Linda Rosencrantz was working on, asking her friends in the arts community to tell
After World War II, US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson led an effort to create judicial proceedings to try the leaders of the Nazi military and government, coordinating the effort with representatives from the
An overwhelmingly intense portrait of motherhood, passion, and mental illness, “Die My Love” brings together Lynne Ramsay, the Scottish auteur behind such anguished psychodramas as “We Need to Talk About Kevin” and “You Were Never
On 16 April 2025, a day after Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s intimate documentary “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” was announced as a selection of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the ACID
At the beginning of Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest,” music producer David King (Denzel Washington) does not pay much attention when his son recommends a young singer. But in the movie’s last scene, King finally listens
Nia DaCosta is difficult to define. A Black woman director who has established herself as a big-budget filmmaker, in her still early career, she’s creatively moved through genres and worked on different scales without firmly
“Grow,” which opens on October 17, is a charming story about a girl named Charlie (newcomer Priya-Rose Brookwell) with a gift for communicating with plants. She was abandoned at an orphanage by her feckless mother,