On Film

We’re tracking the unconventional flows of Zidane, Eephus, and Castration Movie; plus Pedro Costa on Mizoguchi and Tourneur.

On its fiftieth anniversary, Mikey and Nicky is back in theaters, and A New Leaf and Ishtar are screening in New York as well.

Newly restored, the garishly colorful mountain movie will screen in New York with three more Maddin features.

One of the most outrageous films of John Waters’ early career, this brilliant portrait of queer rebellion envisions a world where the outcasts set aside their differences and band together against their fascist enemies.

A monthly series brings films worth making time for to an artist-run space in the Bay Area.

Trash icon John Waters snuck into the commercial mainstream with this delightful coming-of-age comedy, which draws on the director’s love of classic Hollywood and features charismatic performances by Ricki Lake and Divine.

A quiet highlight of last fall’s festival season, Milagros Mumenthaler’s third feature tours theaters through July.

A labor of love made for cheap in its director’s Manhattan apartment, this audacious queer fantasia endures not only because of its frank sexuality but also its gentle, honest heart.

We’re wrapping the week with top docs, Black writers, screwball comedies, and appreciations of Raoul Peck and Jafar Panahi.

Martin Scorsese, Agnès Varda, Lars von Trier, and Katharine Hepburn are just a few of the names you might be adding to your summer reading list.

The director behind such documentaries as Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized talks about his interest in how designers shape our world and explains the technological innovation at the heart of his new film about legendary musician Brian Eno.

BAM presents twelve films ranging from the early 1960s through the late 1980s.

The first lesbian film of the New Queer Cinema to cross over in a big way to mainstream audiences, Lisa Cholodenko’s debut feature is a vivid portrait of a heroin-addled New York City subculture of artists, strivers, and hangers-on.

L’Alliance New York celebrates a mischievously fruitful collaboration with a six-film series.

We’re hunkering down with an oral history of Steven Spielberg and reading about Mary Harron, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Radu Jude, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

An adaptation of Night and Day follows two new reimaginings of Mrs. Dalloway.

Early reviews of his thirty-fifth feature may be all over the place, but appreciation of the man himself is universal.

The screenwriter, director, and novelist will take an active part in all ten screenings in a TIFF Cinematheque series.

Unfolding in a blaze of vivacious color, Med Hondo’s musical masterpiece is a wildly ambitious exploration of the history of French colonial aggression, the enslavement of African peoples, and their subsequent liberation struggles.

Asia Society presents a seven-film retrospective in New York from Thursday through Sunday.

We’re wrapping the week with conversations with Lilly Wachowski, Shunji Iwai, and Tsui Hark as well as essays on Ozu and Ghatak.

A series of films Malle made in the U.S. opens with an excellent documentary on the director’s life and work.

The curators of a showcase of trans directors now playing on the Criterion Channel discuss the work of these trailblazing artists, who have brought new layers of nuance and insight to cinematic depictions of their community.

This year’s lineup features lots of music, another De Niro and Scorsese reunion, and an AI-generated feature.