The Criterion Collection

Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, the new biography by New Yorker editor and critic Richard Brody (who also wrote liner notes for the recent Criterion release of Pierrot le fou), won’t hit bookshelves until May 13, but it's already gaining accolades. Publishers Weekly calls it "comprehensive and fascinating," while filmmaker Wes Anderson says, "Just at the moment when the New Wave turns fifty, Brody has given us a remarkable book which describes with sharp intelligence a great and elusive artist's times, intellect, passions, and work." Everything Is Cinema is available for preorder now from Amazon.com. Meanwhile, the film series Godard's 60s begins at New York’s Film Forum on May 2 and runs until June 5; click here for ticket and screening info.

This year's edition of the Tribeca Film Festival begins Friday, April 25, in downtown New York, and some of our favorite filmmakers will be represented. First of all, there will be the U.S. premieres of new films from David Mamet (Redbelt), whose House of Games we released in 2007, and Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg), whose Brand Upon the Brain! is slated for release this summer. And Tribeca will also unveil a gorgeous new restoration of Federico Fellini's classic 1968 Edgar Allan Poe adaptation Toby Dammit, supervised by cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno. The festival runs through Sunday, May 4; click here for more info.

Modern composer Philip Glass, whose highly influential score for Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is one of that film’s most integral components, is the subject of a new documentary, from Australian director Scott Hicks. Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts, which follows a year in the life of the musician as he composes four film scores and prepares a new opera and symphony, opened Friday, April 18, at New York’s IFC Center and will expand to theaters around the country.