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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Along with a new Senses of Cinema, the week brings writing on work by Rossellini, Bresson, De Palma, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Yashaddai Owens.

Gene Tierney, Robert Kramer, Chantal Akerman, and Alfred Hitchcock are among the many personalities featured this month.

Film Comment presents a series of works featuring, focusing on, and/or written by the famed critic and novelist.

Seven dynamite nights with Keaton, Chaplin, Lubitsch, Ford, Murnau, Griffith, and Raoul Walsh.

Some read Thomson’s new book as an attack on cinema; others argue that they’re missing the point.

Names on our minds this week: Mike Mills, Jean Renoir, Ronee Blakley, and Luchino Visconti.