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Obayashi’s Teen Movies

The director followed up on his cult classic House (1977) with four tales of teen love, magic, and memory.

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

Many Returns

Back on screens: Uli Edel, Charles Burnett, Jane Austen, Mikio Naruse, and Hiroshi Shimizu.

By David Hudson

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025

Bologna’s festival of rediscoveries and restorations now draws around 130,000 attendees each year.

By David Hudson

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.

By Nicholas Russell

June Books

Authors address overt and covert queer cinema, the avant-garde, and AI; plus notes on new collections and entire filmographies.

By David Hudson

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.

By David Cairns

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.

By Paul Grimstad

IFC Center Celebrates Twenty Years

The New York theater screens films by Miranda July, William Lustig, D. A. Pennebaker, and Yasujiro Ozu.

By David Hudson

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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.

By David Hudson

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.

By Megan Abbott

BFI Film on Film 2025

From Hitchcock to Kubrick, Star Wars to Twin Peaks, the selection ranges as wide as the film gauges.

By David Hudson

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.

By David Hudson

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.

By Aisha Harris

A Theater Near You

At MoMA, curator David Schwartz celebrates seventeen landmark New York screening venues.

By David Hudson

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.

By David Hudson

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Daydreaming

Wes Anderson celebrates Satyajit Ray, Chantal Akerman talks framing, and Callie Hernandez writes about Jonathan Glazer.

By David Hudson

Tribeca Glances Back and Forges Ahead

The festival is hosting film premieres, live performances, immersive experiences, and conversations about a few enduring movies.

By David Hudson

Noir Beyond the City

BAMPFA spotlights postwar American noirs creeping out into wide-open spaces.

By David Hudson

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.

By David Hudson

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.

By David Hudson

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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.

By David Hudson

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.

By Tayler Montague

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.

By David Hudson

Echoes: Marcel Ophuls and Michael Roemer

The rise of fascism upended the childhoods of both filmmakers.

By David Hudson