David Hudson

An eclectic mix this week: Iranian cinema, archival deep dives, Neptune Frost, Pauline Kael, and It Ends.

Greene ventures further into a territory where fiction and nonfiction are up to a lot more than a mere blurring of the lines.

Riding raves for Lee and his four leads, the film heads next to Toronto and New York.

Celebrating “reticent auteurs,” a unique London distributor, and the work of Satyajit Ray and Richard Linklater.

This year’s Venice opener propels us through the origin story of our current media hellscape.

As the fall festival season begins, let’s not overlook some of the other unmissable events happening elsewhere.

The festival’s showcase of nineteen new restorations spans more than half a century of cinema history.

Revisiting work by Whit Stillman, Frederick Wiseman, Nathaniel Dorsky—and lots of road movies.

She was a winning presence on the big screen, even if her movies were only a fraction of her monumental impact on popular culture.

The fifteen-film series sets the mood for the unique first feature by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker.

A queer couple in Kyiv is already working through a personal crisis when Russia invades their country.

New, forthcoming, and noteworthy titles include one of the most debated novels of the moment.

Touring David Lynch’s LA, listening to screenwriter Samy Burch, and deciphering Adam Curtis.

A retrospective spotlights the writer’s collaborations with Carol Reed, Fritz Lang, John Ford, Alberto Cavalcanti, and George Cukor.

BAM presents visions of a few possible utopias—and plenty of dystopias.

The Academy Museum has outfitted its theater to present a series of “ultra-rare VistaVision prints as well as 70 mm remasters and new 6K digital scans.”

Top prizes go to Florin Șerban, Hong Sangsoo, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Beatrice Gibson.

Fine writing on Powell and Pressburger, James Gray, Catherine Breillat, and Richard Linklater—plus: Isabelle Huppert on Claude Chabrol.

BAM’s sun-drenched series features films by Ozu, Kurosawa, Oshima, Kitano, Obayashi, Shinji Somai, and more.

Tregenza has made his sixth feature “fast and hard and beautiful,” and it’s premiering in New York before heading to Los Angeles.

Known for her work with Ozu, Mizoguchi, and Kurosawa, Kagawa takes the spotlight in a series that opens with Naruse’s Little Peach.

As A. Rimbaud carries on building a dedicated audience, San Diego’s Digital Gym presents a retrospective.

This week: Conversations with Jane Schoenbrun, Ngozi Onwurah, and Kent Jones and writing on Jean Epstein and Stanley Kwan.

The Chicago Film Society hosts three days of eclectic and vibrant programming.