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:
- Regular columns on movie posters, movie soundtracks, current debates in cinema, video games, and more.
- Thoughtful considerations of the current cinema, like Alexis Moon on Kiyoshi Kurosawa's The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) and Thomas Quist on Christopher Nolan and The Odyssey (2026).
- News from around the film world, like our weekly Rushes column.
- Essays on essential and unexpected subjects, like Jonathan Rosenbaum defending elusive films and Melissa Anderson remembering her editing and writing work at 4Columns.
- Reports on unique cinematic experiences, like Carlos Valladares on filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin's visit to New York and Emma Fuchs's trip to the final Tenemos event.
- Appreciations of repertory titles, like Manahil Tahira on the evolving ways romance is shown on screen in Pakistani cinema and like Zoë Mohaupt on how Roberto Rossellini and Kenji Mizoguchi film postwar devastation.
- Career-spanning retrospectives, like Caitlin Quinlan on the gothic films of Argentine screenwriter Beatriz Guido and Leonardo Goi on French impressionist master Jean Epstein.
- In-depth interviews, like Vadim Rizov's conversation with Isabelle Huppert and Jordan Cronk's discussion with Tsai Ming-liang.
- Coverage of recent publications, like Dylan Adamson on Abel Ferrara's memoir.
- Excerpts and translations, like Jawni Han's of director Park Chan-wook's tribute to Tom Waits.
- Essays from where cinema meets the art world, Madeleine Seidel reporting on the 61st Venice Biennale.
- Selections from the print magazine, like Elissa Suh on feral eating and feminist performance.
- Filmmaker contributions, like Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's five inspirations for A Useful Ghost (2025).
- Expansive festival coverage, like our recent reporting from Locarno and Venice.
- And much more.
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