On Film

Did You See This?

Plaudits for Elaine May and Barbara Stanwyck, conversations with Elliott Gould and Bertrand Tavernier, and a rift between a filmmaker and his subject.

Dark Passages

A haven for aging Hollywood actors, film noir had plenty of room for performers like Wallace Ford, who brought a hard-scrabble energy to the roles of has-beens and losers.

SXSW presents a program of 102 features and episodics, and the Berlinale’s competition and Special lineups are now complete.

Repertory Picks

Travel back to the dawn of the eighties with The Last Days of Disco, playing today at Augusta University in a series of screenings celebrating its writer-director.

Unquiet is the first of Linn Ullmann’s books to directly address her parents. Plus, the criticism of Rivette and Bazin, a radio campaign led by Welles, and more.

In this pitch-perfect noir romance, Alfred Hitchcock explores what happens when the masks we wear in the world clash with our innermost desires.

Goings On

MoMA’s festival of film preservation features Lubitsch, Akerman, Murnau, Lupino, and an eclectic array of rediscoveries.

Songbook

The Scottish band Simple Minds took the Breakfast Club theme song to the top of the charts. But its success—and its plea for loyalty—couldn’t save the group from its ultimate demise.

Did You See This?

A big list from the American Society of Cinematographers, a series celebrating a slew of twentieth anniversaries, and two great series in New York.

The February festival’s added eleven films to its competition and another six to the Berlinale Special program.

Repertory Picks

Luis Buñuel skewers high society in his audaciously experimental late-career satire The Exterminating Angel, playing at the Indiana University Cinema this week.

The Sopranos Film Festival celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the landmark show. Plus news from Rotterdam, Berlin, Austin, and Park City.

The award-winning director of Shirkers looks back on her memories of growing up as a rebellious teenage cinephile and the movie-besotted culture of her native Singapore.

A few lingering observations on the films of 2018 from Slate’s Movie Club, the New York Times, and more.

After years of paring his filmmaking down to the bare essentials, Abbas Kiarostami delivered this gorgeous and boldly minimalist meditation on time, movement, and image-making.

Critics are fine with the actors who’ve won Golden Globes this year—as for the films they appear in, not so much.

Did You See This?

The new year brings us new issues of Cinema Scope, Film Comment, the DGA Quarterly, and World Records.

A longtime friend of the company, the award-winning director of For All Mankind has passed away at the age of seventy-one.

We look ahead to films by Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Paul Verhoeven, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and dozens more.

Repertory Picks

Often imitated but never duplicated, Akira Kurosawa’s genre-bending samurai classic Yojimbo plays tomorrow in the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s After Midnite series.

Polls and ballots, lists and considered reflections give shape to the year that was.

Oddities, rarities, and repertory discoveries . . . some of our favorite writers and artists share their film revelations of the past year.

Did You See This?

New issues of Senses of Cinema and cléo this week, but also healthy seasonal doses of anxiety and lamentation.

Goings On

New York launches an Iranian film festival and sends its Art of the Real series to Los Angeles.