On Film

During a tumultuous period in New York’s history, movies like Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, and Shaft found excitement and squalor in one of the city’s most infamous tourist attractions.

Claude Chabrol, Bong Joon Ho, Ann Hui, Anna Cobb, and Wei Shujun are among the names that have come up this week.

The retrospective lays the groundwork for the release of a new restoration of Army of Shadows.

The festival will premiere new work from Pedro Almodóvar, Alice Rohrwacher, Alfonso Cuarón, and Athina Rachel Tsangari.

Unlike the string of early-1980s sex comedies that it superficially resembles, Paul Brickman’s debut feature fuses fierce social satire and dark, dreamy eroticism with unexpectedly rich and ambiguous results.

Chen Kaige’s sweeping epic chronicles the history of twentieth-century China through the story of two childhood friends, contrasting the unchanging traditions of their Beijing-opera milieu with the nation’s swift and turbulent transformation.

RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys will open the NYFF, and TIFF and Venice Critics’ Week have unveiled lineups.

The UK premiere of the new restoration of Werckmeister Harmonies at Cinema Rediscovered 2024 launches a retrospective.

We’re looking back to films by Pakula and Oshima, and from the 1990s, by Claire Denis and Richard Shepard.

Daniella Shreir, the translator of a collection of Duras’s writing on her films, has curated a comprehensive retrospective.

A pioneer of the 1980s downtown New York arts scene, the director of Sleepwalk talks about navigating her creative life in the city and the inspiration she has taken from mythology, fairy tales, and cinéma fantastique.

Glauber Rocha’s ambitious breakthrough film manifested the project of Cinema Novo, a new wave that sought to overcome the influence of Brazil’s colonial origins and find images and sounds that could reconceive the nation.

Summer reading options range from fiction to philosophy, from the fog of war to finicky fame.

With a deep dive under the hood of Ferrari, Mann aims to explain how he goes about making a movie.

In one of the most patient films he has ever made, Wim Wenders captures how everyday existence drifts into our dream lives.

Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay’s new book assesses the history and future of transness in cinema.

We dive this week into the worlds of Jean Eustache, Walerian Borowczyk, John Ford, Kozaburo Yoshimura, and Chris Marker.

With an inexplicable, irresistibly magnetic charm, she immediately drew our attention—and won our hearts.

Hong Sangsoo, Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, Wang Bing, Ben Rivers, and Pia Marais will premiere new work the International Competition.

Metrograph’s series celebrates the legacy of one of the most notorious cinema clubs in London.

This year’s edition opens with jazz, features three revivals, and wraps with Godzilla.

Both Columbia Pictures and Marcello Mastroianni turn 100 this year, and Locarno and Venice are set to celebrate.

The other big winner in Karlovy Vary is Lilja Ingolfsdottir, whose Loveable takes home five awards.

Pop Shakespeare, 100 years of Disney, and conversations with Isaac Julien and Steven Soderbergh are among this week’s highlights.