On Film
How the Movies Captured Times Square’s Grimy Golden Age
During a tumultuous period in New York’s history, movies like Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, and Shaft found excitement and squalor in one of the city’s most infamous tourist attractions.
Disturbances of Unnatural Orders
Claude Chabrol, Bong Joon Ho, Ann Hui, Anna Cobb, and Wei Shujun are among the names that have come up this week.
The Complete Melville
The retrospective lays the groundwork for the release of a new restoration of Army of Shadows.
Venice 2024 Lineup
The festival will premiere new work from Pedro Almodóvar, Alice Rohrwacher, Alfonso Cuarón, and Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Risky Business: Coming of Age in Reagan’s America
Unlike the string of early-1980s sex comedies that it superficially resembles, Paul Brickman’s debut feature fuses fierce social satire and dark, dreamy eroticism with unexpectedly rich and ambiguous results.
Farewell My Concubine: All the World’s a Stage
Chen Kaige’s sweeping epic chronicles the history of twentieth-century China through the story of two childhood friends, contrasting the unchanging traditions of their Beijing-opera milieu with the nation’s swift and turbulent transformation.
News from Venice, Toronto, and New York
RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys will open the NYFF, and TIFF and Venice Critics’ Week have unveiled lineups.
Béla Tarr in Bristol and London
The UK premiere of the new restoration of Werckmeister Harmonies at Cinema Rediscovered 2024 launches a retrospective.
The ’70s, the ’90s, and Now
We’re looking back to films by Pakula and Oshima, and from the 1990s, by Claire Denis and Richard Shepard.
Marguerite Duras at the ICA in London
Daniella Shreir, the translator of a collection of Duras’s writing on her films, has curated a comprehensive retrospective.
Daydreamer: A Conversation with Sara Driver
A pioneer of the 1980s downtown New York arts scene, the director of Sleepwalk talks about navigating her creative life in the city and the inspiration she has taken from mythology, fairy tales, and cinéma fantastique.
Black God, White Devil: Feeding on Hunger
Glauber Rocha’s ambitious breakthrough film manifested the project of Cinema Novo, a new wave that sought to overcome the influence of Brazil’s colonial origins and find images and sounds that could reconceive the nation.
July Books
Summer reading options range from fiction to philosophy, from the fog of war to finicky fame.
Michael Mann Archives
With a deep dive under the hood of Ferrari, Mann aims to explain how he goes about making a movie.
Perfect Days: Where the Light Comes Through
In one of the most patient films he has ever made, Wim Wenders captures how everyday existence drifts into our dream lives.
Corpses, Fools, and Monsters in LA and NYC
Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay’s new book assesses the history and future of transness in cinema.
Five Singular Filmmakers
We dive this week into the worlds of Jean Eustache, Walerian Borowczyk, John Ford, Kozaburo Yoshimura, and Chris Marker.
Fascinating Shelley Duvall
With an inexplicable, irresistibly magnetic charm, she immediately drew our attention—and won our hearts.
Locarno 2024 Lineup
Hong Sangsoo, Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, Wang Bing, Ben Rivers, and Pia Marais will premiere new work the International Competition.
Trailer Premiere: Long Live Scala Cinema!
Metrograph’s series celebrates the legacy of one of the most notorious cinema clubs in London.
Japan Cuts 2024
This year’s edition opens with jazz, features three revivals, and wraps with Godzilla.
Revivals and Anniversaries
Both Columbia Pictures and Marcello Mastroianni turn 100 this year, and Locarno and Venice are set to celebrate.
Mark Cousins Wins the Crystal Globe
The other big winner in Karlovy Vary is Lilja Ingolfsdottir, whose Loveable takes home five awards.
Why Is It Going That Way?
Pop Shakespeare, 100 years of Disney, and conversations with Isaac Julien and Steven Soderbergh are among this week’s highlights.