The Daily

This week: Bi Gan, Radu Jude, a new Film Quarterly, and of course, more year-end lists and polls.

Charli XCX stars in three of them, and another highlight is a restored documentary by the late William Greaves.

To celebrate the centennial of Battleship Potemkin, the Austrian Film Museum presents a near-complete retrospective.

One Battle After Another carries on plowing through the season while Hollywood braces for “a seismic reorganization.”

BAM presents These Encounters of Theirs on 35 mm, and Pedro Costa screens and discusses movies in Copenhagen.

New issues of Cineaste and Found Footage Magazine are among this week’s highlights.

PTA wins one accolade after another, and Peter Hujar’s Day leads the nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

The Academy Museum celebrates film presentation with a series of twenty-four new restorations.

Even as he carries on winning awards, Jafar Panahi is sentenced to another year in prison.

One of the most vital playwrights of our era was also an award-winning screenwriter.

This short week brings writing on Wong Kar Wai’s first series and Kubrick’s and Pasolini’s last features.

Having broken through in over-the-top horror movies, Kier turned in arresting performances in films by Fassbinder, Lars von Trier, and Gus Van Sant.

This month brings new collections from Melissa Anderson and A. S. Hamrah and a whole shelf of lives lived with the movies.

Look who’s talking: Sissy Spacek, Sylvia Chang, Ryan Coogler, Jean Renoir, and Roberto Rossellini.

To complement his new exhibition, Jafa programs a series of four double bills.

Joachim Trier’s family drama stars Stellan Skarsgård as a renowned film director and Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as his estranged daughters.

Ten years before Ghost in the Shell, the director made one of his most enigmatic and personal works.

This week: Buñuel revivals, the Rock Hudson centenary, and Mishima’s Japanese premiere.

The filmmaker’s memoir is “messy, manic, and shot through with revelation.”

He anchored some of the best films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Okamoto, Naruse, and Teshigahara.

“It’s the end of the world, but keep dancing,” says Laxe.

Olivia Laing’s second novel is set in mid-1970s Rome, where Fellini is shooting Casanova and Pasolini is at work on Salò.

Ira Sachs’s new film opens this week, plus: Joy Williams on Gene Hackman and Claire Atherton’s work with Chantal Akerman.

In the run-up to the release of Jay Kelly, the American Cinematheque presents a five-film series.