On Film

BAMPFA presents a retrospective in conjunction with the filmmaker’s residency at UC Berkeley.

Violently nihilistic, simultaneously energizing and crushing, Tsui Hark’s remake of the martial-arts classic One-Armed Swordsman captures the zeitgeist of pre–1997 handover Hong Kong.

A seven-film series in London takes measure of nuclear anxiety behind the Iron Curtain.

Suffused with visual beauty and moments of magical realism, Jess X. Snow’s queer diasporic cinema invites us to imagine new possibilities for freedom, transformation, and intergenerational healing.

This year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival will present twelve Chinese-language classics.

Featuring pairings of David Bowie and Nicolas Roeg, Jerry Lewis and Jean-Luc Godard, and Caroline Golum and the Middle Ages.

Remembering a prolific and impactful writer, artist, philosopher, film director, and television producer.

The first documentary feature about the rock legends, Charlie Is My Darling captures the band as a group of consummate musicians coming into their fame, fully committed to their craft and enjoying one another’s company.

The star of Lady Snowblood and the Stray Cat Rock and Female Prisoner Scorpion series will be taking questions.

In her riveting documentary Mistress Dispeller, Elizabeth Lo crafts a vividly cinematic exploration of love, marital infidelity, and a drastic form of professional intervention that has become popular in contemporary China.

The Harvard Film Archive celebrates the first decade of work by a key figure of the Japanese New Wave.

Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia programs a series of films by Roberto Gavaldón, Julio Bracho, Emilio Fernández, and Luis Buñuel.

Martin Scorsese’s powerful drama, which recounts a series of killings that devastated the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma, turns the historical epic into a Möbius strip that blurs audience, film, and director.

In this true-crime epic, Martin Scorsese combines his career-long exploration of amoral gangsterism with a sobering meditation on what it means to live on American soil.

The Ukrainian director will be taking questions about Two Prosecutors, The Trial, My Joy, and Donbass.

This week: Thierry Frémaux on the Lumière brothers, Lynne Littman and Jane Alexander on Testament, and Christian Petzold on Hitchcock.

We’re reading up on the work of Jean-Luc Godard and Chantal Akerman—and Liza Minnelli has a new memoir.

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of VHS, the director and the editor of Videoheaven discuss how this game-changing format shaped their lives and imaginations and left a seismic impact on the film industry.

The London festival celebrates forty years of showcasing great queer cinema.

Film at Lincoln Center presents a series of films leading up to the U.S. release of Miroirs No. 3.

In her first and only theatrical feature, director Lynne Littman presents an unbearably intimate vision of apocalypse, focusing on the effects of a nuclear blast on one suburban American family.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another wins six, and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners wins four.

SXSW opens, Another Gaze returns, and Juliette Binoche is on tour with her directorial debut.

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