David Hudson

The comprehensive retrospective can be a daunting prospect, but programmer David Schwartz has spotlit five essential features.

Jonathan Rosenbaum returns to the Reader, there’s a new Cineaste, plus: Hiroshi Shimizu, John Akomfrah, and Robert Vas.

A Film at Lincoln Center series will bring several French filmmakers to the city.

Twenty-one world premieres, several critical favorites from Sundance, and the True Vision Award for Ross McElwee.

The BAMPFA series presents newly restored classics and four films by Rakhshan Banietemad.

A New York retrospective offers Eyes Without a Face, naturally, but also rarely screened features and nonfiction shorts.

Tony Kushner revisits Munich, a Satyajit Ray restoration hits theaters, and the new Film Quarterly is out and free.

This year’s program features a new restoration of a Martin and Lewis comedy in Technicolor and 3D.

A survey of Black cinema and memories of watching movies with John Ashbery are among this month’s highlights.

Juries, critics, filmmakers, and audiences debated politics from the first through the last day of this year’s edition.

Steven Soderbergh talks and two retrospectives showcase work by Raymond Depardon and John Schlesinger.

In more than forty nonfiction features, he tried, as he said, “to create dramatic structures out of ordinary experience.”

One of the most versatile and committed actors in cinema, Duvall was also an accomplished writer and director.

Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams was the big winner at this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards.

This week brings a tribute to Diane Keaton, notes on Taxi Driver at fifty, and three flights of the spirit.

Opening Friday: Noir City in Seattle, the Nitrate Film Festival in Los Angeles, and Cinéma Du Cashiers in New York.

The renowned distributor of nearly six thousand films, videos, and media artworks turns sixty-five.

Films from South Africa, Bangladesh, France, and Georgia are among this year’s winners.

There’s an AI-driven reconstruction of The Magnificent Ambersons underway, a restoration of Michael Almereyda’s Nadia in theaters—and more.

In London, the BFI is marking the hundredth anniversary of Wajda’s birth with a series of eighteen films.

Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan-wook, and Hong Sangsoo select films to screen in a series celebrating the Korean Film Archive.

Her passing has sparked an outpouring of appreciation for the hilarious ways she found to cut loose.

This year’s winners tell stories of trauma and triumph.

In the spotlight this week: Amir Naderi, Bahram Beyzaie, Hlynur Pálmason, Robert Aldrich, Reginald Hudlin, and the late Béla Tarr.