On Film

Flashbacks

Boasting the longest, most versatile career of any Czechoslovak New Waver, the late master made films mixed with deep compassion and an antiauthoritarian spirit.

A work of rapturous energy, John Cameron Mitchell’s beloved debut feature is a freewheeling rock-and-roll musical suffused with heartbreak and pleasure.

Festivals across the continent celebrate the eclectic oeuvre of the renowned Egyptian filmmaker.

Did You See This?

Can the movies survive? Can rotten people be great artists? Are we all doomed?

Goings On

Film series around the world are making this year’s Pride Month especially loud and proud.

To mark the anniversary, editors are highlighting some of her best work while critics and acolytes measure her impact.

In his idiosyncratic, award-winning second film, Bruno Dumont uses the story of an alienated police detective to investigate the most elemental aspects of human experience.

Bruno Dumont’s remarkable first feature examines the intermingling of the sacred and the profane in the French provinces.

Performances

The Cannes-award-winning lead performance in Lee Chang-dong’s masterful melodrama captures both the pain and perverse pleasure of public crying.

Renowned for his adaptations of Shakespeare and great operas, the director was also a controversial Italian senator and stood accused of sexual misconduct.

Starting this weekend, Janus Films is putting Jennie Livingston’s extraordinary snapshot of Harlem’s drag balls of the 1980s back on the big screen.

Did You See This?

On the late Peter Whitehead, Jordan Peele’s Us, drag culture, European refugees, and images of incarceration

She turned roles as women past their prime into her greatest triumphs.

With his eccentric new zombie movie The Dead Don’t Die coming to theaters, Jim Jarmusch talks with us about the inspiration he drew from the late horror maestro’s postmodern, politically tinged approach to genre.

One Scene

The director of the Sundance hit The Last Black Man in San Francisco reflects on what he learned from Ken Russell’s extravagant style and approach to the subject of male relationships.

Some of the best new independent films of the past year are lined up for the eleventh edition.

In the mid-1970s, a poet’s circus rolled through the northeast, manifesting the spirit and confusion of the era.

In their most sublime collaboration, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers perfected a seamless blend of song, dance, and swooning romance.

The new issue focuses on the impact of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, women’s film criticism, and Hollywood’s international productions.

Alec Guinness carved out a place among the greatest of British actors by mixing his demure persona with dry wit and a taste for the absurd.

Did You See This?

This week we revisit the work of Pawel Pawlikowski, Carlos Reygadas, Robert Mitchum, Hal Hartley, and Elaine May.

In this series of intense chamber dramas influenced by the work of August Strindberg, Ingmar Bergman grapples with Europe’s collective crisis of faith in the modern era.

Goings On

Before The Dead Don’t Die opens in theaters, two series offer crash courses on a singular oeuvre.

With the help of MGM’s most ingenious photographers, screen goddesses like Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford made the still portrait a key part of their artistry.