On Film

Three Keaton shorts will open A Day of Silents at the Castro before a series runs through December 21 in Berkeley.

Everything Everywhere All at Once scores Best Feature and the Outstanding Supporting Performance award for Ke Huy Quan.

When Sight and Sound announces the results of its decennial poll this week, we’ll see what a list of all-time great films looks like in 2022.

Featured in this month’s roundup: Maya Deren, Joyce Chopra, Michael Almereyda, Nabokov, Pasolini, and Miyazaki.

In Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens, the odyssey of a New Jersey transplant trying to survive in Manhattan is accompanied by the music of one of the Garden State’s most iconic punk bands.

Spike Lee’s transcendent portrait of an American hero is an urgent call for the nation to live up to everything it claims to be.

Deeply influenced by the classics of silent-era comedy, this vision of a postapocalyptic future celebrates cinema as a universal language that offers us a sense of common ground.

Straub and his life and filmmaking partner Danièle Huillet have been described as “cinema’s conscience.”

Nikyatu Jusu, Douglas Sirk, Mike De Leon, Donald Sutherland, and Sam Raimi are on our minds this week.

Ten films will screen over three days in two theaters in Prague.

Fifty new and recent restorations will screen at the Museum’s first-ever festival of preservation.

After glimpsing his great-great-grandfather on-screen, a writer searches for the history of a landmark silent film.

An ongoing series spotlights films by women directors made in eastern Europe during the Soviet era.

A box-office success that buoyed Hong Kong’s beleaguered movie industry in the early 2000s, this suite of crime films combines narrative intricacy and moral complexity with an abundance of megastar charisma.

Most reviewers are getting a kick out of Tarantino’s blend of memoir and film criticism.

This week we’re celebrating Scorsese, rediscovering Noriaki Tsuchimoto, and doing a little close reading with Frederick Wiseman.

Film Forum presents a survey featuring work by Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien as well as Second Wavers Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang.

New York’s Metrograph presents films by Park Chan-wook, Bi Gan, Ang Lee, Johnnie To, and Michael Mann.

In her first film that places a male character front and center, Jane Campion trains her unsparing gaze on the brutality of patriarchal power and the pain of repressed homoerotic desire.

New York’s Japan Society presents a selection of films written, produced, and/or directed by women.

The Portuguese festival presents one of the largest retrospectives dedicated to the movement ever staged in Europe.

New Senses of Cinema! We’re also reading about John Garfield, Anna Karina, Asghar Farhadi, and Mike Leigh.

Wolf Kino invites filmmakers, writers, and curators to host screenings of six films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

While the Wexner Center surveys her career, TCM’s podcast tells the full life story of Pam Grier.