On Film

Featured this week are Frank Capra, Michael Roemer, John Ford, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Long considered lost, Fujisawa’s Bye Bye Love screens at Metrograph with two Teshigahara classics.

Edward Berger’s improbably entertaining follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) scores twelve.

In his only directorial effort for the big screen, Richard Pryor takes the raw stuff of his life and alchemizes it as art, demonstrating the humor and vulnerability that made him a towering figure in American culture.

In this digressive, intensely interior masterpiece, Jean Eustache mines the dramas of his past romances while also capturing the disillusionment of young Parisians in the aftermath of May 1968.

There’s a Delphine Seyrig retrospective on in New York and another will open at the Harvard Film Archive on Friday.

Toronto’s retrospective showcases an oeuvre that ranges from Fists in the Pocket (1965) to Kidnapped (2023).

This week: Eisenstein’s diaries, Godard’s artworks, Mike Leigh’s characters, and Sidney Poitier’s late work.

MoMA’s festival of film preservation spotlights films from around the world, ranging from the silent era through the 1980s.

We’re looking forward to new work from Richard Linklater, Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Reichardt, Christian Petzold, Chloé Zhao, Sebastián Lelio, and many other filmmakers.

Retrospectives showcasing new restorations are on in Chicago and Los Angeles, and another is heading to New York.

Sunday night’s big winners include The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, and Flow.

We spent the holidays reading about Claude Sautet, Pascal Plante, and Christian Marclay.

Ring in 2025 with this selection of highlights from our past year in publishing.

Look back on the collaborations that defined our year, captured in this compilation of moments that our crew shared with the filmmakers, artists, and experts who talked with us about the movies.

Along with conversations with Jem Cohen and Johnnie To, the week brings fresh angles on the year that was.

One of history’s darkest chapters becomes a deeply personal experience in this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.

The bulk of this year’s selections comes from a three-decade stretch from the early 1970s to the late ’90s.

A remarkable breakthrough in Hong Kong action cinema, this rip-roaring spectacle represents the peak of Hung’s commitment to ensemble-oriented filmmaking.

Sundance, Rotterdam, and Berlin roll out more lineups for what promises to be a season of uncertainty.

News, reviews, and recommendations featuring Paul Schrader, Cher, Terrence Malick, and more.

The week’s offered fine writing on Elaine May, Robert Siodmak and Ella Raines, and Christopher Nolan’s turning-point movie.

The festival will kick off the new year with political quandaries and plenty of great music.

Sean Baker’s eighth feature has been picking up awards and nominations and landing on several best-of-2024 lists.