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TCM Classic Film Festival 2025
TCM Classic Film Festival 2025
World premieres of new restorations and plenty of anniversaries will be celebrated this year.
April Books
April Books
Adaptations, Hollywood histories, and Satyajit Ray’s cover designs feature in this month’s roundup.
IFFBoston 2025
IFFBoston 2025
This year’s edition spotlights work by Dea Kulumbegashvili, Alex Ross Perry, Eva Victor, and Ryan White.
Frontality and Time
Frontality and Time
Barry Jenkins interviews Charles Burnett, Céline Sciamma discusses Chantal Akerman—and more.
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds
At eighty-two, the director has made his most deeply personal film yet.
Directors’ Fortnight and ACID 2025 Lineups
Directors’ Fortnight and ACID 2025 Lineups
The two Cannes sidebars select films by Christian Petzold, Robin Campillo, Eva Victor, and Sophie Letourneur.
Discoveries Await: Critics’ Week 2025
Discoveries Await: Critics’ Week 2025
This year’s edition features Laura Wandel’s follow-up to Playground and the first feature from Sean Baker collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou.
Ted Kotcheff’s Journey
Ted Kotcheff’s Journey
The director of Wake in Fright and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was ninety-four.
Time Is Ours to Bend and Break
Time Is Ours to Bend and Break
We’re paging through the new Millennium Film Journal and reading elsewhere about William S. Burroughs, Pauline Kael, and John Ford.
Cannes 2025 Lineup
Cannes 2025 Lineup
The competition alone will launch new films by Wes Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Richard Linklater, Joachim Trier, and Ari Aster.
Varda: Two Exhibitions and a Retrospective
Varda: Two Exhibitions and a Retrospective
Agnès Varda’s work as an artist, photographer, and filmmaker is celebrated in Paris, Amsterdam, and Rodez.
New Directors/New Films 2025, Week Two
New Directors/New Films 2025, Week Two
Children are the focus of several of the films in this year’s showcase of emerging filmmakers.
Our Huckleberry, Val Kilmer
Our Huckleberry, Val Kilmer
He played Iceman, Jim Morrison, Doc Holliday, and even Batman as no one else would or could have.
States of Flux
States of Flux
Henry Fonda and Shinji Somai headline a week that also brings new issues of frieze and the Brooklyn Rail.
New Directors/New Films 2025, Week One
New Directors/New Films 2025, Week One
The first five days of New Directors/New Films, the showcase of new talent copresented by FLC and MoMA, are packed.
Masahiro Shinoda: Modernizing Tradition
Masahiro Shinoda: Modernizing Tradition
Steeped in theater history, Shinoda infused centuries-old tales with twentieth-century dynamism.
Mann’s Men and More
Mann’s Men and More
The week brings new issues of Film Quarterly and Cineaste and conversations with Michael Mann and Miguel Gomes.
Mirror of Life: Manoel de Oliveira 1996–2004
Mirror of Life: Manoel de Oliveira 1996–2004
Ten newly restored features screen for a week in New York starting Friday.
American Neonoir in Melbourne
American Neonoir in Melbourne
The Cinémathèque presents six shady tales from the 1970s.
Postcards from the South
Postcards from the South
A series coprogrammed by Bonjour Tristesse director Durga Chew-Bose “celebrates the beauty and myth of the Riviera.”
Sound and Vision
Sound and Vision
Along with conversations with David Cronenberg, Alain Guiraudie, and Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, the week offers a dossier on “the cinema of the senses.”
Boston Underground 2025
Boston Underground 2025
The festival’s twenty-fifth edition offers a five-day binge of midnight movies.
March Books
March Books
Headlining this month’s roundup are Joan Didion, Merle Oberon, and Charlie Chaplin.
Various Transgressions
Various Transgressions
Spend the weekend with Buñuel, Pasolini, Sarah Maldoror, Todd Solondz, and Pedro Almodóvar.