On Film

The fifteen-film series sets the mood for the unique first feature by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker.

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.

A queer couple in Kyiv is already working through a personal crisis when Russia invades their country.

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.

The pioneering husband-and-wife duo transformed the field of Japanese nonfiction cinema with their portraits of spectacular, edgy personalities and collectives under duress.

New, forthcoming, and noteworthy titles include one of the most debated novels of the moment.

Touring David Lynch’s LA, listening to screenwriter Samy Burch, and deciphering Adam Curtis.

A retrospective spotlights the writer’s collaborations with Carol Reed, Fritz Lang, John Ford, Alberto Cavalcanti, and George Cukor.

BAM presents visions of a few possible utopias—and plenty of dystopias.

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.”

Top prizes go to Florin Șerban, Hong Sangsoo, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Beatrice Gibson.

Fine writing on Powell and Pressburger, James Gray, Catherine Breillat, and Richard Linklater—plus: Isabelle Huppert on Claude Chabrol.

BAM’s sun-drenched series features films by Ozu, Kurosawa, Oshima, Kitano, Obayashi, Shinji Somai, and more.

In Kidlat Tahimik’s playful and unpredictable film, a Philippine village is tasked with manufacturing thousands of figurines for the Olympic Games, upending the lives and customs of the local population.

Tregenza has made his sixth feature “fast and hard and beautiful,” and it’s premiering in New York before heading to Los Angeles.

Known for her work with Ozu, Mizoguchi, and Kurosawa, Kagawa takes the spotlight in a series that opens with Naruse’s Little Peach.

Set in 1930s French West Africa, Bertrand Tavernier’s hard-to-classify adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel Pop. 1280 offers an apocalyptic vision of a society in which institutions have abdicated their moral authority.

As A. Rimbaud carries on building a dedicated audience, San Diego’s Digital Gym presents a retrospective.

This week: Conversations with Jane Schoenbrun, Ngozi Onwurah, and Kent Jones and writing on Jean Epstein and Stanley Kwan.

The members of this influential leftist collective created a formally adventurous body of work that examined the nation’s tumultuous history through a postcolonial lens.

The Chicago Film Society hosts three days of eclectic and vibrant programming.

MIFF 2026 revives films by Manoel de Oliveira, Lino Brocka, Mary Stephen, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Michael Almereyda, and Mary Harron.

New restorations, festival favorites, and world premieres are heading to Toronto.

The American Cinematheque presents six of the eleven films Douglas Sirk and cinematographer Russell Metty made between 1952 and 1959.