Being There
We’re celebrating the Harry Dean Stanton centennial, listening to Ross McElwee and Tsai Ming-liang, and revisiting the work of Bruce Conner.
Il Cinema Ritrovato at Forty
Around five hundred films—restorations, revivals, rediscoveries—screened last month in Bologna.
Japan Cuts 2026
New York’s Japan Society throws a spotlight on Suzu Hirose and Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Věra Chytilová’s Tainted Horseplay
Karlovy Vary hosts the world premiere of a new restoration of the Czech director’s 1988 tragicomedy.
Plucked from Obscurity
This week’s roundup ranges from sad goodbyes to a silent comedy, from Hitchcock to Barker, and from video art to a cult TV series.
It’s All a BIG Conspiracy
Film at Lincoln Center rolls out a series of ten films probing the secrets and suspicions of a nation that seems perpetually on edge.
Spectres, Devils, and Bad Blood
BAM’s thirteen-film series dips into chapters of American history that tend to get overlooked on Fourth of July weekends.
Declaration of Independents!
In the run-up to the country’s 250th birthday, several venues are offering prompts for celebration and reflection.
Streams of Narrative
We’re tracking the unconventional flows of Zidane, Eephus, and Castration Movie; plus Pedro Costa on Mizoguchi and Tourneur.
Three by Elaine May
On its fiftieth anniversary, Mikey and Nicky is back in theaters, and A New Leaf and Ishtar are screening in New York as well.
Guy Maddin’s Careful Returns
Newly restored, the garishly colorful mountain movie will screen in New York with three more Maddin features.
Vital Signs in Oakland
A monthly series brings films worth making time for to an artist-run space in the Bay Area.
Catching Up with The Currents
A quiet highlight of last fall’s festival season, Milagros Mumenthaler’s third feature tours theaters through July.
Enduring Portraits
We’re wrapping the week with top docs, Black writers, screwball comedies, and appreciations of Raoul Peck and Jafar Panahi.
June Books
Martin Scorsese, Agnès Varda, Lars von Trier, and Katharine Hepburn are just a few of the names you might be adding to your summer reading list.
Masahiro Shinoda: From Pop to Kabuki
BAM presents twelve films ranging from the early 1960s through the late 1980s.
Chabrol & Huppert: Doing Wrong
L’Alliance New York celebrates a mischievously fruitful collaboration with a six-film series.
Mad Summers
We’re hunkering down with an oral history of Steven Spielberg and reading about Mary Harron, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Radu Jude, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Suddenly, Virginia Woolf
An adaptation of Night and Day follows two new reimaginings of Mrs. Dalloway.
Steven Spielberg and Disclosure Day
Early reviews of his thirty-fifth feature may be all over the place, but appreciation of the man himself is universal.
John Sayles in Toronto
The screenwriter, director, and novelist will take an active part in all ten screenings in a TIFF Cinematheque series.
Stanley Kwan: Ladies Man
Asia Society presents a seven-film retrospective in New York from Thursday through Sunday.
Shifting POVs
We’re wrapping the week with conversations with Lilly Wachowski, Shunji Iwai, and Tsui Hark as well as essays on Ozu and Ghatak.
Louis Malle: Portraits of America
A series of films Malle made in the U.S. opens with an excellent documentary on the director’s life and work.