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Criterion is releasing Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague on 4K UHD and Blu-ray on September 22, and the disc is worth a look for more than the cast. The film dramatizes…

12 Angry Men (1957), directed by Sidney Lumet — Lee J. Cobb and E.G. Marshall in the jury room

Criterion’s New 12 Angry Men 4K Restoration Reveals Sidney Lumet’s Vanishing Lens Trick

September 16, 2026

Criterion put out a new 4K UHD restoration of “12 Angry Men” this month, and it’s worth using as an excuse to look at what the film is actually doing…

Camera lens and playback monitor on a green screen film set during a VFX shoot

Netflix Used Generative AI on 300 Titles This Year, and InterPositive Is Why

September 16, 2026

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Netflix told investors during its Q2 2026 earnings call that generative AI touched roughly 300 of its titles this year, and the company is naming names about how. Co-CEO Ted…

The Pont Neuf bridge in Paris, the real-life landmark that Leos Carax and cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier recreated as a full-scale film set for The Lovers on the Bridge

Criterion’s Three Films by Leos Carax Box Set Finally Gives Cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier His Due

September 15, 2026

Criterion is releasing “Three Films by Leos Carax” on September 29 — new 4K restorations of “Boy Meets Girl,” “Mauvais Sang,” and “The Lovers on the Bridge” — and for…

Theo (Clive Owen) and Kee flanked by soldiers in the war-torn refugee camp finale of Children of Men (2006)

Children of Men’s Six-Minute Car Ambush Isn’t Actually One Take

September 14, 2026

Children of Men’s car ambush sequence looks like one unbroken take: five minutes inside a moving vehicle as it’s attacked on a forest road, the camera swinging between actors with…

Reels of physical IMAX 70mm film negative from Christopher Nolan film The Odyssey, © Universal Pictures

The Odyssey Topped Letterboxd’s September Chart. It’s Still Edited With Scissors and Glue.

September 13, 2026

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey landed at the top spot of Letterboxd’s official September Report 2026, the community’s monthly ranking of the year’s 25 highest-rated films with at least 25,000 ratings.…

Still from Se7en (1995), showing the desaturated, high-contrast bleach bypass color grade, © New Line Cinema

Se7en’s Bleach Bypass Process Made Grain and Grit the Whole Point

September 12, 2026

Se7en’s grimy, crushed-black look wasn’t a color grade bolted on in post, it was a chemical process cinematographer Darius Khondji fought to get approved, and it’s the reason the film…

View from the balcony of an ornate historic cinema with the screen lit up

In the Mood for Love Made Sight and Sound’s Top Five. Its Cinematographer Didn’t Finish the Shoot.

September 11, 2026

Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love” landed at number five on the BFI’s Sight and Sound 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll, the biggest and most influential critics’…

Film crew gathered around a cinema camera on a production set

Producers Say Auteur Theory Erased Them. A Venice Panel Just Made the Case Formal.

September 11, 2026

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