On Film

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Look back with us on the winding career of Arthur Jafa, a summer spent with Tilda Swinton, and an evening with soccer “super-fan” Agnès Varda.

In Lucille Carra’s poetic adaptation of a classic travelogue by Donald Richie, an exploration of life in Japan’s Inland Sea becomes a path to self-discovery.

A week into this year’s edition, a few critical favorites are emerging from the competition.

Bologna’s annual celebration of classic movies is a site of endless discovery, inspiring new ways of thinking about our nostalgia for cinema’s past.

As Toronto’s full lineup nears completion, New York looks to expand upon “our notions of what the moving image can do and be.”

This month we’re looking at titles by or about Chantal Akerman, Orson Welles, Chris Marker, Kathleen Collins, and many more filmmakers and writers.

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This week we’re revisiting the work of Ida Lupino, Nicholas Cage, Juraj Herz, Spike Jonze, and more.

The last two days have seen an avalanche of titles filling up the fall festival lineups.

The groundbreaking filmmaker had a hand in inventing—and then reinventing over and again—the modern documentary.

The subject of a career retrospective on the Criterion Channel, this risk-taking, death-defying visionary of the New German Cinema makes movies that are forces of nature.

This year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival was haunted by the shadows of lost films, abandoned formats, and fascinating ephemera.

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Extraordinarily long movies, challenging movies, and even ugly movies figure into this week’s round.

A new book and film series survey the many varied ways filmmakers from outside the country have viewed America.

A centerpiece for New York, Canadian films in Toronto, genre fare in Austin, and silent classics in Pordenone, Italy.

The New York Film Festival has landed the world premiere of The Irishman—and Scorsese is already at work on his next feature.

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The director of Midsommar finds the joy of collaboration and creation in Mike Leigh’s period epic.

The late Dutch actor worked with directors as varied as Paul Verhoeven, Ermanno Olmi, Ridley Scott, and Nicolas Roeg.

The late Iranian master takes the spotlight in a magisterial retrospective—the most comprehensive survey of his career ever mounted—opening today at New York’s IFC Center.

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This week’s round features conversations with Abbas Kiarostami, Christopher Doyle, Julia Loktev, and Barry Jenkins.

Brought to harrowing life in this film adaptation, George Orwell’s dystopian vision continues to ring true today. But so does his belief in the power of love and hope to overthrow the darkness.

The festival will premiere new work from James Gray, Haifaa al-Mansour, Roy Andersson, Ciro Guerra, Costa-Gavras, Roman Polanski, and Olivier Assayas.

The director of Angela and The Ballad of Jack and Rose revisits the themes of personal crisis and transformation that drive her early films, now playing on the Criterion Channel.

New films by Josh and Benny Safdie, Marielle Heller, Pablo Larraín, Kasi Lemmons, Rian Johnson, Robert Eggers, Steven Soderbergh, and Lou Ye are heading to the festival.

The festival announces an intriguing closing night film, and the sidebar known to most as Venice Days unveils its lineup.