Happy 92nd birthday to The Best To Ever Do It, writer/ director/performer Elaine May!

In 2019, we dedicated an entire issue to May, her films, her writing, her comedy, and her singular brilliance.

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(art by Tony Stella)

At the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscar dinner on Saturday, people quite literally flocked to capture Justine Triet and Sandra Hüller’s photo and chit chat to Hollywood’s hottest pair of “it girls” right now.

Once settled in, Hüller lit a cigarette and said to a friend, “I

In honor of #InternationalWomensDay , spend some time with the work of groundbreaking women artists from around the world on the Criterion Channel. ❤️📺 criterionchannel.com/women-filmmake…

This is my favorite bit from this interview because I was also a lonely kid who made alien invasion films with a camcorder, only my cat played the alien not my dad.

Our *double issue* on the movies of 1999 kicks off today, with Chad Perman' Letter from the Editor:

'If you were there it was almost impossible to miss, even while it was happening: 1999 was, quite possibly, the single best year in movie history.'
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Lila Avilés chiquitolina! Con todo y cámara, claqueta, script y mi gatito Wawa! 🎬🎥🌞🐈! excelsior.com.mx/funcion/la-cin…

🇺🇸Director #IrisKaltenbäck in New York City for the screening and Q&A of 'The Rapture' ('Le Ravissement'), at the Rendez-Vous with #FrenchCinema .
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Just in time for #IWD2024 tomorrow, our latest book, ‘Bloody #Women : Women Directors of #Horror ’, is being released in paperback! Part of the Critical Conversations in Horror series. Edited by myself & Aislinn Clarke! 🖤 rowman.com/ISBN/978161146…

In this week's Directed By Women Viewing Guide, I wrote about two new period-set teen films, a new romantic comedy, plus five streaming gems, including a three essential documentaries about Black and Palestinian liberation.

DIRECTED BY SHIRLEY CLARKE 📽️ Coming to the Channel 2/1! criterion.com/current/posts/…

The experimental icon synthesized jazz, modern dance, & abstract expressionism into a dynamic vérité style that put her at the forefront of the American independent film scene of the '50s and '60s.

Beautiful poster. 🥰

Would love to know the artist.

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For IGN, I reviewed one of my favorite movies from last year's Sundance: Rachel Lambert's SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING.

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🏆 The Festival Favorite Award goes to DAUGHTERS, directed by Angela Patton & Natalie Rae. #Sundance

'A mother-daughter fairytale that hits right in the heart and soul.' (Deadline). TUESDAY, the extraordinarily moving directorial debut from Daina O. Pusić starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Lola Petticrew, is coming soon.

Yes to all of Jourdain's wonderful points. Anatomy of a Fall has its finger on the pulse of many current feminist issues, especially how women and men in relationships navigate domestic work and how angry and entitled men feel towards women's labour.

With all the very well-deserved love for Sandra Hüller today, I would simply like to ask where the hell Maren Ade has been since the masterpiece that is TONI ERDMANN!!