On Film

Agnès Varda’s work as an artist, photographer, and filmmaker is celebrated in Paris, Amsterdam, and Rodez.

Children are the focus of several of the films in this year’s showcase of emerging filmmakers.

He played Iceman, Jim Morrison, Doc Holliday, and even Batman as no one else would or could have.

Henry Fonda and Shinji Somai headline a week that also brings new issues of frieze and the Brooklyn Rail.

The first five days of New Directors/New Films, the showcase of new talent copresented by FLC and MoMA, are packed.

Steeped in theater history, Shinoda infused centuries-old tales with twentieth-century dynamism.

The week brings new issues of Film Quarterly and Cineaste and conversations with Michael Mann and Miguel Gomes.

Ten newly restored features screen for a week in New York starting Friday.

The Cinémathèque presents six shady tales from the 1970s.

Set in a grimy, unglamorous version of Los Angeles, Arthur Penn’s Watergate-era neonoir tells the story of an honorable private eye acutely conscious of living in an era that is the mere shadow of a nobler past.

Unfettered by the precepts of bourgeois morality and the nuclear family, the characters in Alan Rudolph’s romantic drama struggle to find happiness as they navigate love’s whims and ambiguities.

A series coprogrammed by Bonjour Tristesse director Durga Chew-Bose “celebrates the beauty and myth of the Riviera.”

At the turn of the millennium, a loose collective of filmmakers—including Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg—made a splash with a provocative manifesto and a wave of audacious movies shot on digital video.

Along with conversations with David Cronenberg, Alain Guiraudie, and Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, the week offers a dossier on “the cinema of the senses.”

The festival’s twenty-fifth edition offers a five-day binge of midnight movies.

This stellar entry in one of cinema’s greatest monster franchises combines science fiction’s age-old exploration of human arrogance with the full force of cinematic imagination.

In what he described as his “first serious drama,” Charlie Chaplin channeled the influence of modernist literature, foreign cinema, and his European travels into a work of striking formal sophistication.

Headlining this month’s roundup are Joan Didion, Merle Oberon, and Charlie Chaplin.

Spend the weekend with Buñuel, Pasolini, Sarah Maldoror, Todd Solondz, and Pedro Almodóvar.

Top prizes in the narrative and documentary feature competitions go to Amy Wang and Benjamin Flaherty.

While a film’s stars are forced to bear the responsibility of moving a narrative forward, supporting actors get to have fun providing comic relief or suggesting whole lives being lived beyond the screen.

New restorations of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984) arrive in the U.S.

The Museum of the Moving Image’s annual showcase of “adventurous new cinema” is on from Wednesday through Sunday.

We’re spotlighting fine writing on Ben Rivers, Errol Morris, David Lynch, Želimir Žilnik, and Laura Carreira.