On Film

A selection of fine writing on this year’s Academy Award nominees.

TIFF Cinematheque spotlights the work of both an Iranian exile and a Lebanese artist and filmmaker.

Metrograph presents a retrospective of work by a filmmaker championed by Godard, Rivette, and Bazin.

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.

The director of Civic and Now, Hear Me Good talks about how his experience as a first-generation Caribbean American and his love of Chantal Akerman’s short La chambre have influenced his work.

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

For this existential noir, Joel and Ethan Coen drew inspiration from crime-fiction master James M. Cain’s lean, hard-boiled style and interest in the quotidian world of work.

Centered on the emotional unraveling of a failed newsman, this darkly prescient satire envisions the collapse of American society as we knew it through an unsparing critique of corporate media and capital accumulation.

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.

Since the 1980s, Indigenous artists have turned to documentary filmmaking and a variety of experimental forms to reassert their cultural sovereignty and lay claim to their own narratives.

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

Though in many ways the quintessential company man, the director brought an intimate understanding of the margins of American society to the films he made for Warner Bros. in the 1930s.

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.