On Film

Our new box set, a film series in New York, and an in-depth podcast season celebrate one of the most influential oeuvres in cinema.

As we remember Patrick Stewart and Peter Medak, the week’s highlights include writing on Agnès Varda, Rosa von Praunheim, and plenty of scary movies.

Kwaidan screens in Los Angeles and opens a series in Berkeley.

One of the most passionately analyzed shows in television history is a mind-bending investigation of free will and modern surveillance culture, told with an audacious blend of symbolism, philosophy, and avant-garde surrealism.

Drawing on his global understanding of Black expressive culture, the director of I Ran from It and Was Still in It and Blur creates freewheeling narrative structures that explore the intricacies of time, loss, and collective memory.

Marine Atlan, Arie and Chuko Esiri, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Mike Leigh, and Olivia Wilde get an early awards-season boost.

A retrospective in London spans not only a raucous oeuvre but also the history of postwar Japan.

The Tokyo International Film Festival will present a mix of classics, premieres, and some of the most talked-about films of the year.

In the 1970s, up-and-coming mavericks like Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter honed their craft by bringing a taste of the grindhouse to the small screen.

Classics of highway horror, like Road Games, The Appointment, and Race with the Devil, present the open road as a dangerous landscape and automobiles as single-minded killing machines.

There’s a new Senses of Cinema out, plus conversations with Charles Burnett and Several Futures founder Graham L. Carter.

To get you in the mood for Halloween, we invited a group of six writers and filmmakers to tell us about horror movies on the Criterion Channel that they feel deserve more attention.

In one of his most personal films, the Oscar-winning director imbues Mary Shelley’s gothic tale with elements of family melodrama and traces of his own Catholic upbringing.

Throughout his enormously influential body of work, the great director explored the conflict between humankind’s obsession with control and our capacity for error and failure.

The Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum present a genre-hopping retrospective.

This month’s roundup spotlights new titles on Murnau, Welles, Capra, Zulawski, and Richard Fleischer as well as forthcoming books from Matías Piñeiro and Tilda Swinton.

The serial killer in Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning film remains a powerfully influential and dominant trans film image with a complicated legacy that cannot be taken lightly.

Uli Edel’s harrowing tale of youth rebellion is one of cinema’s greatest Berlin films, a visceral urban portrait that captures the city’s doom and decadence during the Cold War era.

Imperium has won a top prize in London, and now it’s set to open the first complete retrospective in North America.

Metropolis and John Berger turn one hundred, Daisies is sixty, and the future is closing in.

As Once Upon a Time in Harlem begins its theatrical run, two series celebrate the filmmaker’s centennial.

Putin’s crackdown on independent media sends TV Rain journalists fleeing the country.

Blending elements of psychological thriller, social satire, and psychedelic film, Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes-award-winning classic uses its audacious sound design to evoke the terror of English civilization.

The Melbourne Cinémathèque screens five films by the poetic realist best known for Children of Paradise.