On Film

Boots Riley and Olivia Wilde both have two films at this year’s edition of New England’s largest film festival.

The shape-shifting artist and director of The Giverny Document talks about the Black feminist tradition, her approach to direct animation, and the influence of Toni Morrison and Soviet montage theory on her work.

A crime-cinema masterpiece whose influence can be seen in such later touchstones as Mean Streets and Reservoir Dogs, this highly stylized portrait of a gangster subordinates the needs of plot to director John Boorman’s saturated aesthetic.

From new titles on the silent era and Hollywood’s Golden Age to forthcoming novels and memoirs, this month offers something for every reader.

For half a century, she was, as Emmanuel Macron put it, “a constant presence in French cinema.”

So many Hamlets! Plus Radley Metzger, Marco Bellocchio, and Tilda Swinton and Orbital.

During a period of rapid deregulation and accelerating deindustrialization, Hollywood corporate thrillers depicted ambitious heroes gaining admission to a world of C-suites and private jets at the price of their souls.

Dozens of filmmakers will attend the third edition of the American Cinematheque’s documentary festival.

The festival presents winners of top prizes in Rotterdam and Locarno as well as highlights from Cannes and Berlin.

One of Ernst Lubitsch’s favorites among his own films, this delightful pre-Code whodunit exemplifies the director’s signature European worldliness and his ingenious way of drawing viewers in as if they were coconspirators.

The legendary comedy troupe’s most fully realized film is a hilarious Biblical parody with a streak of overwhelming horror and outrage running through it.

New films from Radu Jude, Clio Barnard, Lisandro Alonso, and Alain Cavalier are headed to Cannes.

The Cannes sidebar spotlights first and second features from up-and-coming filmmakers.

Jia Zhang-Ke and Steven Soderbergh experiment with AI, plus: Jim Jarmusch, Tina Aumont, and Elvira Notari.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Asghar Farhadi, Paweł Pawlikowski, Na Hong-jin, Cristian Mungiu, and Ira Sachs are headed into the main competition.

Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art introduce New Yorkers to some of the most exciting new voices in cinema.

The third edition opens with Maddie’s Secret and features Chronovisor, After Dreaming, and Blue Heron.

New York’s Film Forum screens thirteen features by the master of urbane comedy.

This week: Mani Haghighi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sophy Romvari and Martha Coolidge, and Ken and Flo Jacobs.

The country’s 250th anniversary is only one of several good reasons to watch or revisit the films.

BAMPFA presents a retrospective in conjunction with the filmmaker’s residency at UC Berkeley.

Violently nihilistic, simultaneously energizing and crushing, Tsui Hark’s remake of the martial-arts classic One-Armed Swordsman captures the zeitgeist of pre–1997 handover Hong Kong.

A seven-film series in London takes measure of nuclear anxiety behind the Iron Curtain.

Claude Lelouch’s Palme d’Or–winning breakout hit combines elements of a classic Hollywood love story with dynamic photography, an edgy editing style, and a naturalistic sense of character and location.