David Hudson

We’re wrapping the week with top docs, Black writers, screwball comedies, and appreciations of Raoul Peck and Jafar Panahi.

Martin Scorsese, Agnès Varda, Lars von Trier, and Katharine Hepburn are just a few of the names you might be adding to your summer reading list.

BAM presents twelve films ranging from the early 1960s through the late 1980s.

L’Alliance New York celebrates a mischievously fruitful collaboration with a six-film series.

We’re hunkering down with an oral history of Steven Spielberg and reading about Mary Harron, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Radu Jude, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

An adaptation of Night and Day follows two new reimaginings of Mrs. Dalloway.

Early reviews of his thirty-fifth feature may be all over the place, but appreciation of the man himself is universal.

The screenwriter, director, and novelist will take an active part in all ten screenings in a TIFF Cinematheque series.

Asia Society presents a seven-film retrospective in New York from Thursday through Sunday.

We’re wrapping the week with conversations with Lilly Wachowski, Shunji Iwai, and Tsui Hark as well as essays on Ozu and Ghatak.

A series of films Malle made in the U.S. opens with an excellent documentary on the director’s life and work.

This year’s lineup features lots of music, another De Niro and Scorsese reunion, and an AI-generated feature.

Gorin will discuss films he’s selected as well as his own work and his collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard.

The world’s most desolate film festival expands to nearly a hundred theaters in seventy-three cities.

We’re revisiting work by Tarkovsky, Pelechian, and Portabella as well as two films with the word Dead in the title.

Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà present two series back to back, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and History, Italian Style.

This year brought restorations of Ken Russell’s The Devils and docs on Vittorio De Sica, Chris Marker, David Lean, and Bruce Dern.

Top prizes go to films by Cristian Mungiu, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Valeska Grisebach, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Los Javis.

This week brings a look back at Cronenberg’s Crash and conversations with Boots Riley and Wallace Shawn.

The Cannes sidebar wraps with prizes for three stories about teenage girls and another about a determined adult woman.

There’s zero consensus when it comes to the latest films by Na Hong-jin and Cristian Mungiu.

New films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and James Gray are riding high on the Cannes critics’ grids.

Critics are taking to Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, Radu Jude’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, and Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid.

This week: Super 8 films by Teo Hernández, a new feature from Patrick Wang, and a revival of Aloïse (1975), starring Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig.