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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.

By David Hudson

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.

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

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.

By David Hudson

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.

By David Hudson

Masahiro Shinoda: Modernizing Tradition
Masahiro Shinoda: Modernizing Tradition

Steeped in theater history, Shinoda infused centuries-old tales with twentieth-century dynamism.

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

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.

By David Hudson

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.

By David Hudson

American Neonoir in Melbourne
American Neonoir in Melbourne

The Cinémathèque presents six shady tales from the 1970s.

By David Hudson

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.”

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

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.”

By David Hudson

Boston Underground 2025
Boston Underground 2025

The festival’s twenty-fifth edition offers a five-day binge of midnight movies.

By David Hudson

March Books
March Books

Headlining this month’s roundup are Joan Didion, Merle Oberon, and Charlie Chaplin.

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

Various Transgressions
Various Transgressions

Spend the weekend with Buñuel, Pasolini, Sarah Maldoror, Todd Solondz, and Pedro Almodóvar.

By David Hudson

2025 SXSW Awards
2025 SXSW Awards

Top prizes in the narrative and documentary feature competitions go to Amy Wang and Benjamin Flaherty.

By David Hudson

Heiny Srour’s Feminist Rebels
Heiny Srour’s Feminist Rebels

New restorations of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984) arrive in the U.S.

By David Hudson

First Look 2025
First Look 2025

The Museum of the Moving Image’s annual showcase of “adventurous new cinema” is on from Wednesday through Sunday.

By David Hudson

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“How Does Someone Do That?”
“How Does Someone Do That?”

We’re spotlighting fine writing on Ben Rivers, Errol Morris, David Lynch, Želimir Žilnik, and Laura Carreira.

By David Hudson

Clip Premiere: Who by Fire
Clip Premiere: Who by Fire

An award-winner in Berlin, Philippe Lesage’s gripping slow burner is set for a theatrical run in the U.S.

By David Hudson

La Clef in New York
La Clef in New York

The Parisian art-house cinema has programmed a series running at various venues throughout New York City.

By David Hudson

Rossellini in Melbourne
Rossellini in Melbourne

The Melbourne Cinémathèque presents selections from the four phases of a profoundly influential oeuvre.

By David Hudson

Anora’s Big Night
Anora’s Big Night

Sean Baker’s eighth feature wins five top Academy Awards.

By David Hudson

Never the Same Man, but Always Gene Hackman
Never the Same Man, but Always Gene Hackman

His range was astounding, and yet every performance was immediately recognizable as uniquely his.

By David Hudson

Did You See This?

Ten Contenders
Ten Contenders

We’ve gathered some of the best writing on each of the nominees for Best Picture Oscar.

By David Hudson

True/False 2025
True/False 2025

Along with the premieres and parades, this year offers an oddity from Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens.

By David Hudson