Since the release of Sight & Sound magazine’s 2022 Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time critics poll, some of us agreed, others were appalled; in particular with the absence of masterworks by Luis Buñuel, Ernst Lubitsch and Howard Hawks. But the positive is that it opens pathways for lists by other cineastes which keeps the importance of cinema on the front burner. …

Max von Sydow the Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal has passed away. He was 90 years old.