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Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams was the big winner at this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards.

This week brings a tribute to Diane Keaton, notes on Taxi Driver at fifty, and three flights of the spirit.

Opening Friday: Noir City in Seattle, the Nitrate Film Festival in Los Angeles, and Cinéma Du Cashiers in New York.

The renowned distributor of nearly six thousand films, videos, and media artworks turns sixty-five.

Films from South Africa, Bangladesh, France, and Georgia are among this year’s winners.

There’s an AI-driven reconstruction of The Magnificent Ambersons underway, a restoration of Michael Almereyda’s Nadia in theaters—and more.

In London, the BFI is marking the hundredth anniversary of Wajda’s birth with a series of eighteen films.

Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan-wook, and Hong Sangsoo select films to screen in a series celebrating the Korean Film Archive.

Her passing has sparked an outpouring of appreciation for the hilarious ways she found to cut loose.

This year’s winners tell stories of trauma and triumph.

In the spotlight this week: Amir Naderi, Bahram Beyzaie, Hlynur Pálmason, Robert Aldrich, Reginald Hudlin, and the late Béla Tarr.

Critics have taken a liking to the new films from Olivia Wilde, Padraic McKinley, and John Wilson.

TIFF Cinematheque salutes the surrealist master with a series of fresh restorations and rare 35 mm prints.

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.

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

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

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.