55 stories by "Melissa Anderson"
Maurice Pialat’s compassionate 1971 miniseries examines the Great War’s fracturing of civilian life.
Hervé Lévy as Hervé Gardy and Michel Terrazon as Michel Latour in La maison…
Steven Soderbergh's intriguing new drama about the anguish of abandoning one's art.
Michaela Coel as Lori Butler and Ian McKellen as Julian Sklar in The Christophers. Courtesy Neon. Photo: …
The unheimlich maneuver: Christian Petzold's film pits the cozy rituals of domesticity against the eeriness of family secrets.
Philip Froissant as Jakob, Paula Beer as Laura, and Barbara Au…
Two tales of coming out: new films by Hafsia Herzi and Anna Cazenave Cambet are a study in contrasting experiences of self-reckoning and sapphic sexuality.
Nadia Melliti as Fatima in The Li…
In Satyajit Ray's 1970 film, four loutish young urbanites from Kolkata encounter class differences and potential romance
on holiday in the country.
Samit Bhanja as Hari, Subhendu Chatterje…
Bloodlust and obsession, carnage and castration: romance and heartbreak take on new meanings in the returning Anthology Film Archives series.
Berta Socuéllamos as Ãngela and Jose Antoni…
Harry Lighton's new film, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård as an odd couple, plays like a sub/dom rom-com.
Harry Melling as Colin and Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd as Ray in Pilli…
Striking discordances bring an animated intensity to Robert Aldrich's 1956 tearjerker starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson.
Joan Crawford as Millicent "Milly" Wetherby and Cliff Rober…
A young table-tennis champ careens and crashes through an obstacle course of chaos and catastrophes in Josh Safdie's new film.
Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme. Courtesy …
In a retrospective series at Anthology Film Archives, the cult-cinema icon's bewitching essence is on full display.
Mary Woronov as Camilla Stone in Sugar Cookies. Courtesy Anthology Film A…
'70s cinema homages, '70s mustaches, '70s dictatorship repression: Kleber Mendonça Filho's latest mixes high-energy excitement with
the ghosts of the past.
Wagner Moura as Marcelo in Th…
Ira Sachs's hypnotic portrayal of a daylong conversation between the photographer and his longtime friend Linda Rosenkrantz.
Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw as Peter Hujar…
Kelly Reichardt's latest film: a bumbling suburban dad, a fumbled art heist, and a portrait of a nation on the decline.
Josh O'Connor as James Blaine Mooney in The Mastermind. Courtesy Cine…
In the late writer-director's works, portraits of headstrong women under the influence of adventurous spirits.
Emmanuelle Devos as Pomme in If You Don't, I Will. Courtesy L'Alliance New Yor…
In two films by Chantal Akerman playing as part of MoMA's complete retrospective, teenage heroines ramble through city streets
hungering for more.
Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in J…
Dag Johan Haugerud's trilogy concludes with the portrayal of a teenager who writes a manuscript detailing her infatuation with
her high school teacher.
Selome Emnetu as Johanna and Ella Ã…
Drugs, desperation, degradation, David Bowie: Uli Edel's 1981 cult film portrays the downward spiral of a young girl who falls in with teenage street addicts in West Berlin.
Natja Brunckhor…
A matchmaker girl living in a matrimonial world:
Celine Song's forgettable new rom-com.
Dakota Johnson as Lucy and Pedro Pascal as Harry in Materialists. Courtesy A24. Photo: Atsushi Nishi…
Sex, lie detectors, and national security: in Steven Soderbergh's latest, the intrigue of espionage is matched by the mysteries of marriage.
Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse in Black …
Humor and humiliation, violence and vulnerability: the chaos of thwarted eros knows no bounds in Alain Guiraudie's latest.
Félix Kysyl as Jérémie and Jean-Baptiste Durand as Vincent in M…
For the man from nowhere, leaving is best: a young Parisian sojourns to Tunisia, where he was born, and finds few answers in Guy Gilles's beguiling 1970 film.
Patrick Jouané as Pierre in E…
In 1900s and 1990s Chicago, parallel romances play out between two Black Chicagoans, one Deaf and one hearing.
John Earl Jelks as Arthur Jones and Michelle A. Banks as Malindy Brown in Comp…
Domestic misery loves spectral company in
Steven Soderbergh's new thriller.
Callina Liang as Chloe in Presence. Courtesy Neon.
Presence, directed by Steven Soderbergh,
now in theaters
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To go gentle"and not so gentle"into that good night: two emotionally explosive films by Michael Roemer present unsparing
portrayals of illness and death.
Reverend Bryant in Dying. Courtesy…
Oblique horrors and unsettling vulnerabilities abound in Joshua Oppenheimer's musical film about a wealthy family living in a luxurious bunker during climate apocalypse.
Tim McInnerny as Bu…
