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Here’s a quick guide to filmmaker profiles and critics’ recommendations.

The Hungarian filmmaker will give introductions and take questions during retrospectives hosted by the American Cinematheque and Film at Lincoln Center.

The director of one of the major early works of the French New Wave lived to see interest in his work revived.

This week we’re spotlighting Ken Jacobs, queer cinema in the 1990s, and the return of the afro-horn.

The late filmmaker had a profound impact on directors such as Scorsese and Lynch; he could also be a handful.

It’s not every year that so many critics are pleased with the juries’ choices.

This year saw the return of Michel Gondry, a strong showing from New York, and a bittersweet love story from Georgia.

Audrey Diwan’s jury spotlights emerging talents from Malaysia, Belgium, Serbia, and France.

Two of Cannes’s favorite directors, Aki Kaurismäki and Wes Anderson, return to the competition.

Anatomy of a Fall, May December, and About Dry Grasses are among the critical favorites in competition in Cannes.

Drawing freely from the novel by the late Martin Amis, Glazer emphasizes the horror of what we do not see.

Blending a tragic love story and a terrifying, slow-motion genocide, Killers has premiered out of competition in Cannes.

Take a break from Cannes with Eric Rohmer, the Dardennes, Patrice Chéreau, Joanna Hogg, and Matthew Barney.

A half-hour western, a challenging essay film, and a 3D portrait of a major artist premiere as Special Screenings in Cannes.

Now that Jeanne du Barry has opened this year’s edition, critics look ahead to the movies they’re anticipating most.

New this month: André Bazin in English, the Farrow family, and Tom Hanks’s first novel.

This week: Swiss anarchists, Spanish analogue filmmakers, Warren Sonbert, and Jerzy Skolimowski.

The critic and memoirist expands on her 2017 essay “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?”

The Austrian Film Museum pairs features by the great French directors Jacques Becker and Claude Sautet.

A new film by the late director is the clear highlight of this year’s Cannes Classics program.

Along with an interview with Straub-Huillet, we’re reading a Taiwanese wuxia primer and assessments of work by Shinji Somai and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The Thai artist and director picks ten features to screen alongside his own work in New York.

The third edition of New York’s festival of experimental documentary and avant-garde film is on through Sunday.

Start the week with the new Artforum, a groundbreaking film collective, and discussions of exciting new works.