On Film
Obayashi’s Teen Movies
The director followed up on his cult classic House (1977) with four tales of teen love, magic, and memory.
Many Returns
Back on screens: Uli Edel, Charles Burnett, Jane Austen, Mikio Naruse, and Hiroshi Shimizu.
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025
Bologna’s festival of rediscoveries and restorations now draws around 130,000 attendees each year.
The Quiet Art of LA Rebellion Pioneer Billy Woodberry
Throughout a small but indelible body of work that includes the 1984 neorealist masterpiece Bless Their Little Hearts, the veteran filmmaker has explored how everyday life is lived within structures of power.
June Books
Authors address overt and covert queer cinema, the avant-garde, and AI; plus notes on new collections and entire filmographies.
Midnight: The Game of Love
Mitchell Leisen’s marvelously chic and brilliantly constructed screwball classic revolves around a heroine who flounders through a succession of complications but always manages to come out ahead.
Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser: Thelonious in Action
Drawing from over a dozen hours of black-and-white footage, Direct Cinema pioneer Charlotte Zwerin created this elliptical and moving portrait of one of American music’s most original artists.
IFC Center Celebrates Twenty Years
The New York theater screens films by Miranda July, William Lustig, D. A. Pennebaker, and Yasujiro Ozu.
Remembrances and Returns
Darling and Dogma are back in theaters, and Edmund White is remembered with his great essay on Jean Genet and Jean Cocteau.
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Megan Abbott Talks with William Horberg About Ripley on Film
The acclaimed crime writer joins a producer of the 1999 adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley to discuss the cinematic incarnations of Patricia Highsmith’s shape-shifting, quintessentially American antihero.
BFI Film on Film 2025
From Hitchcock to Kubrick, Star Wars to Twin Peaks, the selection ranges as wide as the film gauges.
Roberto Minervini in Los Angeles
Acropolis Cinema presents the LA premiere of The Damned and the world premiere of a new restoration of The Passage.
The Wiz: A Soulful Oz
Sidney Lumet’s lavish adaptation of a Tony Award–winning stage musical combines an ecstatic appreciation of Black artistry with a celebration of freedom and perseverance.
A Theater Near You
At MoMA, curator David Schwartz celebrates seventeen landmark New York screening venues.
P. Adams Sitney, Flo Jacobs, and the Avant-garde
Within the past few days, we’ve lost a vital film historian and a vibrant artist.
Daydreaming
Wes Anderson celebrates Satyajit Ray, Chantal Akerman talks framing, and Callie Hernandez writes about Jonathan Glazer.
Tribeca Glances Back and Forges Ahead
The festival is hosting film premieres, live performances, immersive experiences, and conversations about a few enduring movies.
Noir Beyond the City
BAMPFA spotlights postwar American noirs creeping out into wide-open spaces.
Karlovy Vary’s Competitions and Specials
Along with Rebuilding, starring Josh O’Connor, the festival will present a fresh slate of world premieres in July.
Bleak Week 2025
More than a hundred films likely to make you feel bad in all the best ways will screen in eight cities this month.
More to Come
The week wraps with an overlooked gem starring Jamie Lee Curtis, a new issue of Cineaste, and conversations with Lisa Lu and Takashi Miike.
Behavioral Studies: A Conversation with Ifeyinwa Arinze
The director discusses her path from neuroscience to cinema and the childhood memory that inspired her short August Visitor, a film about culture and intergenerational understanding.
May Books
Women of the French New Wave, New York in the 1960s, and the scenes behind the scenes are among the many subjects tackled this month.
Echoes: Marcel Ophuls and Michael Roemer
The rise of fascism upended the childhoods of both filmmakers.