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July 10, 2026·David Hudson

Being There

Did You See This? Harry Dean Stanton in Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas (1984) The Criterion Mobile Closet is back in Los Angeles this weekend as we take part in Music from the Films of Wes Anderson, a series of three concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, all of them hosted by Bill Murray. Among the many artists slated to perform are Devo, Jackson Browne, Karen O, and Jeff Goldblum. “I was surprised how many things we did have to leave out,” Anderson tells Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles Times. “We could do a whole other round of this, but let’s see how it goes on this first one.”Cinephiles around the…

In the catalogStarring Harry Dean Stanton

July 8, 2026·David Hudson

Il Cinema Ritrovato at Forty

Jacqueline Vandal in Paula Delsol’s La dérive (1964) It takes a while to gather some perspective on a program of around five hundred films. While some—such as Geoff Gardner, chair of the Organizing Committee of Cinema Reborn—managed to keep daily diaries during the fortieth edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato (June 20 through 28), Bologna’s festival of restorations and rediscoveries, most have taken a few days to gather their thoughts.Ehsan Khoshbakht, one of the festival’s four directors, notes that 145,000 people attended this year, and he’s asked 170 of them to name a favorite film and a major…

July 7, 2026·David Hudson

Japan Cuts 2026

Suzu Hirose in Kei Ishikawa’s A Pale View of Hills (2025) Suzu Hirose was sixteen going on seventeen when her career took off. She’d done some modeling and appeared in a few films that didn’t make much of a splash before Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister premiered in competition in Cannes. Hirose played the title character, a thirteen-year-old who has cared for the dying man who fathered her and, by another mother, three half-sisters she has never met. After their father dies, these three young women take in their “new” younger sister.Kore-eda’s tenth feature went on to score four…

July 6, 2026·David Hudson

Věra Chytilová’s Tainted Horseplay

David Vávra in Věra Chytilová’s Tainted Horseplay (1988) It’s easy to imagine that Věra Chytilová and her editor, Ivana Kačírková, might have cut an inconsequential scene from Tainted Horseplay if it weren’t guaranteed to draw a laugh in 1988. A Czech bureaucrat is dully outlining a vision of the glorious socialist future at an under-attended meeting when a squealing woman races through the drab hall. Never mind why, but she’s cowering under a huge American flag she’s draped over herself. When they dreamed up this visual gag, Chytilová and her cowriter, Pavel Skapík, could not have known that…

In the catalogDaisies1966

July 2, 2026·David Hudson

Plucked from Obscurity

Did You See This? Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner (1967) Tonight in London, the Liberated Film Club welcomes the Otolith Group and Light Industry to the Close-Up Film Centre, while the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Divided Publishing present Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (1996) followed by a conversation between director Isaac Julien and Françoise Vergès. Over the weekend, Cinema Mentiré will roll out Salome, Salome, Salome, a program of “three radically different queer incarnations of the biblical princess across Brazil, Mexico, and the UK.” André Antônio’s Salomé (2024)…

In the catalogThe Prisoner1967