David Hudson
@dwhdaily.bsky.social
I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
One-week runs of Oliver Laxe’s SIRÂT begin Thursday @filmlinc.bsky.social and Friday in Los Angeles before @neon-rated.bsky.social rolls out a wider theatrical release in January — www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
One-week runs of Oliver Laxe’s SIRÂT begin Thursday @filmlinc.bsky.social and Friday in Los Angeles before @neon-rated.bsky.social rolls out a wider theatrical release in January — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Naruse, Teshigahara, Ichikawa, and Kinuyo Tanaka, has died at 92.
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Naruse, Teshigahara, Ichikawa, and Kinuyo Tanaka, has died at 92.
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
THE SILVER BOOK, Olivia Laing’s second novel, is set in mid-1970s Rome, where Fellini is shooting CASANOVA and Pasolini is at work on SALÒ — www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
THE SILVER BOOK, Olivia Laing’s second novel, is set in mid-1970s Rome, where Fellini is shooting CASANOVA and Pasolini is at work on SALÒ — www.criterion.com/current/post...
The Brooklyn Rail + the Film-Makers’ Cooperative are hosting a free virtual screening of the late Ken Jacobs’s STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH on Tuesday.
David Schwartz offers a brief intro (brooklynrail.org/event/2025/1...) and goes longer on Ken + Flo Jacobs for Film Comment — mailchi.mp/filmcomment/...
David Schwartz offers a brief intro (brooklynrail.org/event/2025/1...) and goes longer on Ken + Flo Jacobs for Film Comment — mailchi.mp/filmcomment/...
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Brooklyn Rail + the Film-Makers’ Cooperative are hosting a free virtual screening of the late Ken Jacobs’s STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH on Tuesday.
David Schwartz offers a brief intro (brooklynrail.org/event/2025/1...) and goes longer on Ken + Flo Jacobs for Film Comment — mailchi.mp/filmcomment/...
David Schwartz offers a brief intro (brooklynrail.org/event/2025/1...) and goes longer on Ken + Flo Jacobs for Film Comment — mailchi.mp/filmcomment/...
Ira Sachs @ 4Columns + @newyorker.com, Joy Williams on Gene Hackman @harpers.bsky.social, Claire Atherton and Chantal Akerman @eflux.bsky.social, Terence Davies @ BFI, new @sensesofcinema.bsky.social …
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Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ira Sachs @ 4Columns + @newyorker.com, Joy Williams on Gene Hackman @harpers.bsky.social, Claire Atherton and Chantal Akerman @eflux.bsky.social, Terence Davies @ BFI, new @sensesofcinema.bsky.social …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
In the run-up to the release of JAY KELLY (limited theatrical on November 14 and streaming on Netflix on December 5), @amcinematheque.bsky.social presents five films by Noah Baumbach — www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In the run-up to the release of JAY KELLY (limited theatrical on November 14 and streaming on Netflix on December 5), @amcinematheque.bsky.social presents five films by Noah Baumbach — www.criterion.com/current/post...
So looking forward to finally catching Bi Gan’s RESURRECTION when 14 Films presents it in Berlin (www.14films.de/en/resurrect...).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJe...
RESURRECTION - Janus Trailer
YouTube video by Janus Films
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November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So looking forward to finally catching Bi Gan’s RESURRECTION when 14 Films presents it in Berlin (www.14films.de/en/resurrect...).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJe...
I was already intrigued, but now the teaser has put Mona Fastvold’s THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE on the absolute must-see list:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures
YouTube video by SearchlightPictures
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November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I was already intrigued, but now the teaser has put Mona Fastvold’s THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE on the absolute must-see list:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
Reposted by David Hudson
Following AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend... (in case there are any dishes or patriarchies unbroken), you are invited to join Cinema's First Nasty Women for a rousing revue of BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY!
Nov 10-13: 10 films, 4 screenings, total mayhem.
silver.afi.com/movies/detai...
Nov 10-13: 10 films, 4 screenings, total mayhem.
silver.afi.com/movies/detai...
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Following AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend... (in case there are any dishes or patriarchies unbroken), you are invited to join Cinema's First Nasty Women for a rousing revue of BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY!
Nov 10-13: 10 films, 4 screenings, total mayhem.
silver.afi.com/movies/detai...
Nov 10-13: 10 films, 4 screenings, total mayhem.
silver.afi.com/movies/detai...
The second AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend is on from Thursday through Sunday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The second AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend is on from Thursday through Sunday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Remembering Peter Watkins … www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Remembering Peter Watkins … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Tonight! @bambrooklyn.bsky.social presents new restorations of two early features by Olivier Assayas, PARIS AWAKENS (1991) and A NEW LIFE (1993) — www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Tonight! @bambrooklyn.bsky.social presents new restorations of two early features by Olivier Assayas, PARIS AWAKENS (1991) and A NEW LIFE (1993) — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Reposted by David Hudson
Wong Kar Wai’s Blossoms Shanghai is finally coming to the U.S. this month.
Wong Kar Wai’s Blossoms Shanghai Sets Criterion Channel Release Beginning This Month
Two years after Wong Kar Wai's Blossoms Shanghai premiered in China, the long-awaited series will now be coming to America. Beginning on November 24, the Criterion Channel will exclusively premiere th...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Wong Kar Wai’s Blossoms Shanghai is finally coming to the U.S. this month.
Still impressed by this series of posters for a 2018 Peter Watkins retrospective presented by Wolf Kino in Berlin.
November 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Still impressed by this series of posters for a 2018 Peter Watkins retrospective presented by Wolf Kino in Berlin.
The remarkable filmmaker Peter Watkins—THE WAR GAME (1966), PRIVILEGE (1967), PUNISHMENT PARK (1971), EDVARD MUNCH (1974), LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871 (2000) has died. He’d just turned 90 on Wednesday.
@theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
@theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
November 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The remarkable filmmaker Peter Watkins—THE WAR GAME (1966), PRIVILEGE (1967), PUNISHMENT PARK (1971), EDVARD MUNCH (1974), LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871 (2000) has died. He’d just turned 90 on Wednesday.
@theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
@theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …
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Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Marta Mateus (BARBS, WASTELAND; FIRE OF WIND) is presenting and discussing her work and influences @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, the Siskel + Doc Films, @acropoliscinema.bsky.social, and @bampfa.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Marta Mateus (BARBS, WASTELAND; FIRE OF WIND) is presenting and discussing her work and influences @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, the Siskel + Doc Films, @acropoliscinema.bsky.social, and @bampfa.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Reposted by David Hudson
‘During a four or five-year period at the turn of the millennium, I went to the cinema around six hundred times. I wasn’t a film critic or even an aspiring director. I was just a schoolboy and, in my parents’ probably loving description, a “weirdo”.’
Leo Robson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Leo Robson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Leo Robson · Diary: What I Saw at the Movies
Jean Epstein compared going to a movie to entering a state of hypnosis, an aesthetic experience that ‘modifies the...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
‘During a four or five-year period at the turn of the millennium, I went to the cinema around six hundred times. I wasn’t a film critic or even an aspiring director. I was just a schoolboy and, in my parents’ probably loving description, a “weirdo”.’
Leo Robson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Leo Robson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The nominations for this year’s Gotham Awards are out, and each of the four front-runners takes a unique approach to a world that’s about to snap.
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www.criterion.com/current/post...
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The nominations for this year’s Gotham Awards are out, and each of the four front-runners takes a unique approach to a world that’s about to snap.
www.criterion.com/current/post...
www.criterion.com/current/post...
The second edition of Directors’ Fortnight Extended is on this week and next at the Roxy Cinema and L’Alliance in New York and @acropoliscinema.bsky.social in Los Angeles — www.criterion.com/current/post...
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The second edition of Directors’ Fortnight Extended is on this week and next at the Roxy Cinema and L’Alliance in New York and @acropoliscinema.bsky.social in Los Angeles — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Reposted by David Hudson
Ashes to Ashes ...Toronto to Oslo - we got the exclusive trailer first look for Sofia Bohdanowicz's Measures for a Funeral
bit.ly/4oHt2Dj
bit.ly/4oHt2Dj
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ashes to Ashes ...Toronto to Oslo - we got the exclusive trailer first look for Sofia Bohdanowicz's Measures for a Funeral
bit.ly/4oHt2Dj
bit.ly/4oHt2Dj
“Marx, Melodrama and Marcos: Lino Brocka from the Mid-1970s to the Early 1980s” opens Wednesday @melbcinematheque.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Marx, Melodrama and Marcos: Lino Brocka from the Mid-1970s to the Early 1980s” opens Wednesday @melbcinematheque.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Björn Andrésen, the obscure object of Dirk Bogarde’s desire in Luchino Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE (1971) and the subject of Kristian Petri’s THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (2021), has died. He was 70.
@thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
@thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
October 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Björn Andrésen, the obscure object of Dirk Bogarde’s desire in Luchino Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE (1971) and the subject of Kristian Petri’s THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (2021), has died. He was 70.
@thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
@thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Dennis Lim’s introduction to the Channel’s Edward Yang retrospective is personal, political, and just spot-on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnY7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnY7...
Spotlight on Edward Yang with Dennis Lim
YouTube video by CRITERION
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October 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Dennis Lim’s introduction to the Channel’s Edward Yang retrospective is personal, political, and just spot-on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnY7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnY7...