On Film

The Tokyo International Film Festival will present a mix of classics, premieres, and some of the most talked-about films of the year.

In the 1970s, up-and-coming mavericks like Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter honed their craft by bringing a taste of the grindhouse to the small screen.

Classics of highway horror, like Road Games, The Appointment, and Race with the Devil, present the open road as a dangerous landscape and automobiles as single-minded killing machines.

There’s a new Senses of Cinema out, plus conversations with Charles Burnett and Several Futures founder Graham L. Carter.

To get you in the mood for Halloween, we invited a group of six writers and filmmakers to tell us about horror movies on the Criterion Channel that they feel deserve more attention.

In one of his most personal films, the Oscar-winning director imbues Mary Shelley’s gothic tale with elements of family melodrama and traces of his own Catholic upbringing.

Throughout his enormously influential body of work, the great director explored the conflict between humankind’s obsession with control and our capacity for error and failure.

The Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum present a genre-hopping retrospective.

This month’s roundup spotlights new titles on Murnau, Welles, Capra, Zulawski, and Richard Fleischer as well as forthcoming books from Matías Piñeiro and Tilda Swinton.

The serial killer in Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning film remains a powerfully influential and dominant trans film image with a complicated legacy that cannot be taken lightly.

Uli Edel’s harrowing tale of youth rebellion is one of cinema’s greatest Berlin films, a visceral urban portrait that captures the city’s doom and decadence during the Cold War era.

Imperium has won a top prize in London, and now it’s set to open the first complete retrospective in North America.

Metropolis and John Berger turn one hundred, Daisies is sixty, and the future is closing in.

As Once Upon a Time in Harlem begins its theatrical run, two series celebrate the filmmaker’s centennial.

Putin’s crackdown on independent media sends TV Rain journalists fleeing the country.

Blending elements of psychological thriller, social satire, and psychedelic film, Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes-award-winning classic uses its audacious sound design to evoke the terror of English civilization.

The Melbourne Cinémathèque screens five films by the poetic realist best known for Children of Paradise.

Hal Ashby nods to Stanley Kubrick, Yasmina Price presents a dossier on Kevin Jerome Everson, and Axelle Ropert plays a game.

Having achieved fame for her work in On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, Saint insisted on putting her private family life first.

A nocturnal journey through Paris pauses here and there to listen in on women’s conversations about the complexities of their lives.

A dystopian drama that draws on the influences of African mythology and hip-hop, Ngozi Onwurah’s debut feature uses a mix of speculative forms to expose anti-Blackness as a system that underpins the modern world.

This week is packed with festival openings, special screenings, series, and retrospectives.

Andrew Scott and Rami Malek play dying actors determined to give their all to their art in the late 1980s.

As we mark the Andrzej Wajda centennial, Paweł Pawlikowski looks back on the twentieth century from another angle. Plus: Rohmer, Burnett, Fosse, and Wiene.