On Film

Unencumbered by the white gaze, Reginald Hudlin’s groundbreaking feature-film debut is a celebration of a Black community in all its diversity, featuring fully realized characters who exist not as spectacle but as reality.

William and David Greaves’s film captures a gathering of Harlem Renaissance luminaries in 1972.

The new year brings an ode to Judy Garland, conversations with Martin Scorsese, and a novel by John Sayles.

This week: Max Ophuls, Erich von Stroheim, David Lynch, the Biden years, and the best of 1935.

Ryan Coogler’s genre mashup now leads what has become a genuine race.

A deft mixture of family epic, romantic melodrama, landscape cinema, and comedy, Burkinabe director Idrissa Ouédraogo’s landmark film balances the universality of its themes with the fierce individuality of its characters.

At once earnest and fantastic, carefree and mindful, G. Aravindan’s richly imagined work of folklore channels the director’s deep spiritual vision through the form of a children’s story.

This visually stunning masterpiece from Kazakh New Wave iconoclast Ardak Amirkulov is one of the few films that looks evil in the eye without flinching.

A singular achievement in Arab film history, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s sweeping political epic is a memorial to the lives lost in the struggle for Algerian independence.

New films by Angela Schanelec, Lance Hammer, and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun will premiere in the competition.

The constant negotiation of routine pleasure and profound sorrow—the experience of being human—is at the heart of John Huston’s final film, an exquisite adaptation of James Joyce’s classic short story.

Joachim Trier’s sixth feature wins six European Film Awards, and Sirât takes home five.

A smash hit at the box office, this electrifying adventure film established the team of director Michael Curtiz and actors Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland as one of the most iconic creative partnerships in Hollywood.

Michael Almereyda and Radu Jude’s discussion of Eisenstein, Welles, and Godard is just one of this week’s highlights.

SXSW and Slamdance unveil full lineups, and the Berlinale fills out its Forum, Panorama, Generation, and Classics programs.

There’s a Visconti retrospective on in Vienna, a restored Comencini in New York, and films by Antonioni, Olmi, and Bertolucci will screen at Harvard.

The festival lines up its Forum Special and celebrates forty years of the Teddy Award.

Let’s catch up with some of the most notable best-of-2025 listing and polling.

This week: Conversations with Lav Diaz, Mira Nair, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

The director of some of the bleakest films ever made once claimed all they were all comedies—except one.

We can look forward to new films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, David Fincher, Greta Gerwig, Lee Chang-dong, Ulrike Ottinger, and many, many more.

One of France’s biggest stars took the world by storm before her reputation took a turn.

As we come to the end of 2025, we’re looking back at some of the essays and interviews we’ve shared with you over the past year.

Celebrate the holiday season with this special treat from our production team.