Each Sunday in the Weekly Edit, you'll find highlights from the previous week of Notebook publishing, the occasional gem from our archives, plus subscriber-only special features:
- Thoughtful considerations of the current cinema, like Lawrence Garcia on Bruno Dumont’s The Empire (2025).
- News from around the film world, like Vikram Murthi’s reporting from the picket lines at Alamo Drafthouse.
- Appreciations of repertory titles, like Rafaela Bassili on the films of Pia Frankenberg.
- Career-spanning retrospectives, like Adam Nayman on the late Ted Kotcheff.
- In-depth interviews, like Jonah Jeng’s conversation with Kenji Tanigaki.
- Probing essays on film and history, like Sarah Fensom on the television-to-cinema adaptation.
- Reviews of recent publications, like Nirris Nagendrarajah on Mayukh Sen’s biography of Merle Oberon and Nancy Kwan’s memoir.
- Excerpts and translations, like Hossein Eidizadeh’s of Forough Farrokhzad’s review-cum-manifesto.
- Selections from the print magazine, like Bilge Ebiri’s history of the frame rate.
- Supplements to the latest MUBI releases, like Jenn Pelly on Pavements (2025).
- Contributions from filmmakers, like Saulė Bliuvaitė’s scrapbook of influences for Toxic (2024).
- Expansive festival coverage, like our recent reporting from Venice, Toronto, Locarno, and New York.
- And much more.
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