These performances share a commitment to achieving emotional vitality by any means necessary.
To celebrate Radiohead’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we take a look back at the group’s best and most innovative music videos.
Music, dance, action, rage, touch, rhyme, and blunt-force trauma—these are the moments that give films, and life, their staying power.
Jenkins discusses his artistic inspirations, how he’s developed his cinematic voice, and more.
Pawlikowski discusses the reception of his films and why he doesn’t stick too closely to his own scripts.
The will to view films of the past, and the infrastructure to support this spectatorship, is alive and well.
Maybe instead of protection from pain, audiences are seeking out horror films as a form of reckoning with societal demons.
This list makes equal room for the lowest hanging Hollywood fruits and art-house fare convinced of its own cultural and artistic importance.
This year, films were emboldened to be themselves and to follow their creators’ obsessions into increasingly wild-and-wooly places.
This list recognizes games many of us love, but it devotes as much space to ones a few of us are passionate about.
Almost all of these shows—even the most joyfully escapist among them—seemed preoccupied in 2018 with the forces which make us who we are.
So many of 2018’s best albums capture the feeling of trying to keep our heads above water.
Our cultural concerns in 2018 over boundaries, borders, and bottom lines have trickled down into the best songs of the year.
Rohrwacher discusses why she needed to make this film at this moment.
Petzold discusses his collaborations with Harun Farocki and more.
Kore-eda discusses what motivated him to make his Palme d’Or-winning triumph.
The festival doesn’t try to keep glamour at a pronounced distance from anything that might be considered unsightly.
Oldham chats about his methodology, “objective truth” in songwriting, and politics in music.
It was clear that current issues and events had a significant impact on the programming decisions.
Doclisboa offers a vertiginously eclectic and vast lineup, with a mishmash of old and new films from a multitude of countries.
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