On Film
Jeremy Thomas: An Astonishing Career
The late producer’s collaborators include Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Oshima, Skolimowski, Roeg, and Takashi Miike.
Underrepresented, Women Triumph in Venice
May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown wins the Golden Lion, and NAZA, codirected by Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, wins a Special Jury Prize.
Turning Points
An eclectic mix this week: Iranian cinema, archival deep dives, Neptune Frost, Pauline Kael, and It Ends.
Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar
Greene ventures further into a territory where fiction and nonfiction are up to a lot more than a mere blurring of the lines.
Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love
Riding raves for Lee and his four leads, the film heads next to Toronto and New York.
Holding Our Own
Celebrating “reticent auteurs,” a unique London distributor, and the work of Satyajit Ray and Richard Linklater.
Danny Boyle’s Ink
This year’s Venice opener propels us through the origin story of our current media hellscape.
Other Goings On
As the fall festival season begins, let’s not overlook some of the other unmissable events happening elsewhere.
Venice Classics 2026
The festival’s showcase of nineteen new restorations spans more than half a century of cinema history.
Disappearing Moments
Revisiting work by Whit Stillman, Frederick Wiseman, Nathaniel Dorsky—and lots of road movies.
James Baldwin Looks Back
The illuminating 1982 documentary I Heard It Through the Grapevine follows the celebrated author on a journey through the American South, as he attempts to reckon with the legacy and losses of the civil rights movement.
We Will Always Love Dolly Parton
She was a winning presence on the big screen, even if her movies were only a fraction of her monumental impact on popular culture.
Bibliomania: A Preface to Chronovisor
The fifteen-film series sets the mood for the unique first feature by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker.
Little Odessa: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
James Gray’s extraordinary debut feature is a painstakingly distilled tale of crime and family dysfunction, captured with a merciless gaze and a sharp attention to idiosyncratic detail.
Isabelle Stever’s I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming
A queer couple in Kyiv is already working through a personal crisis when Russia invades their country.
American Dream: The Time Is Right
In her second film, Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple captures the anguish and perils of disunity in the labor movement and the corrosion of union power during the Reagan era.
Five Radical Documentaries by Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi: Restlessness Refusing Resolution
The pioneering husband-and-wife duo transformed the field of Japanese nonfiction cinema with their portraits of spectacular, edgy personalities and collectives under duress.
August Books
New, forthcoming, and noteworthy titles include one of the most debated novels of the moment.
Somewhere In-Between
Touring David Lynch’s LA, listening to screenwriter Samy Burch, and deciphering Adam Curtis.
Graham Greene at the Harvard Film Archive
A retrospective spotlights the writer’s collaborations with Carol Reed, Fritz Lang, John Ford, Alberto Cavalcanti, and George Cukor.
Art-House Sci-Fi
BAM presents visions of a few possible utopias—and plenty of dystopias.
Presented in VistaVision
The Academy Museum has outfitted its theater to present a series of “ultra-rare VistaVision prints as well as 70 mm remasters and new 6K digital scans.”
Locarno’s Leopards
Top prizes go to Florin Șerban, Hong Sangsoo, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Beatrice Gibson.
Inner Friction
Fine writing on Powell and Pressburger, James Gray, Catherine Breillat, and Richard Linklater—plus: Isabelle Huppert on Claude Chabrol.