On Film

With his two features now playing on the Criterion Channel, the audacious and fiercely independent director shares memories of the nineties LGBTQ film scene and his ideas about sensuality on-screen.

Considered his first directly political film, Satyajit Ray’s 1960 masterpiece explores how the denial of self-knowledge, a void neither religion nor Western rationalism can fill, takes a toll on women in Indian society.

In the run-up to Friday’s opening, Wright has put together a delectable issue of the Observer New Review.

An outstanding course on Kieślowski, the revival of a Sundance award-winner, and a couple of ranked lists are among this week’s highlights.

In the landscape of gay-themed cinema, which often focuses on positivity and pride, The Delta stands out for asking unsettling questions about the limits of queer connection across socioeconomic and racial divides.

Made in the 1990s, The Salt Mines and The Transformation take an unflinching look at the bigotry and economic hardships faced by a community of trans sex workers of color.

This year’s round sees a category shake-up and two female writer-directors out front.

Both the foil and the mirror to Greta Gerwig’s beloved heroine, the role of Sophie comes alive in a performance imbued with emotional candor and prickly autonomy.

The range this month stretches from the silent era to this weekend’s launch of The Liberated Film Club.

The late director of Canoa: A Shameful Memory aimed “to show people the real Mexico.”

This uncanny tale of existential anxiety stands out as the most rigorously pared-down American science-fiction film of the 1950s.

In her astonishing debut feature, Lynne Ramsay synthesizes narrative drama and poetic exploration, the social and the surreal.

The Academy Award–winning director remembers a formative and eye-opening encounter with Lynne Ramsay’s feature debut.

Panah Panahi’s debut feature expertly balances “knockabout humor and slowly tightening tension.”

This week: Visconti, Bertolucci, Sumiko Haneda, Lynne Sachs, and designer Barbara Baranowska.

The director of Love & Basketball reflects on more than twenty years of bringing the underrepresented stories of her community to the big and small screen.

Voir is “a new documentary series of visual essays celebrating cinema.”

Several of the season’s best-reviewed films arrive in the Windy City.

In Raoul Walsh’s elegy for the Depression-era archetype of the noble outlaw, Humphrey Bogart plays an old-fashioned desperado who has outlived his time.

One of cinema’s most eclectic and impactful curators is fêted in the cities were he lived and worked.

In the news this week: Isabelle Huppert, David Cronenberg, Peggy Ahwesh, Doris Wishman, Tacita Dean, and Orson Welles.

From Richard Linklater to Isabelle Huppert to Tsai Ming-liang, some of cinema’s most revered artists have shown their commitment to the art form by running art-house theaters with stellar repertory programs.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film will eventually make it to your local theater, and critics say it’s worth the wait.

A rediscovered anti-fascist short is among the highlights of this year’s program of restorations and revivals.