On Film

Did You See This?

Critics Serge Daney and V. F. Perkins and filmmakers Dziga Vertov, William Friedkin, and Alfonso Cuarón are among the subjects of this week’s highlights.

Goings On

Studies of China’s past and present are screening at three venues in the city.

Repertory Picks

Filled with passion and intrigue, one of the great epic romances of French cinema plays this Sunday at the Miami Beach Cinematheque.

He transformed a fledgling comic book publisher into a juggernaut brand.

The history of Hollywood is the focus of this round, but its reach also extends well beyond.

Turning to theater for inspiration, Kenji Mizoguchi transformed a popular eighteenth-century play into a spiritually charged meditation on forbidden love and societal oppression.

Cold War leads the nominations for this year’s European Film Awards, while Ray & Liz scores in Thessaloniki.

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

Critically maligned upon their release, Ingmar Bergman’s only two English-language films show the master’s artistry at its most restrained and its most convoluted.

Did You See This?

This week has seen appreciations of such disparate figures as Ida Lupino, André Bazin, and F. J. Ossang.

Repertory Picks

California’s Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive celebrates one of Italian cinema’s great perfectionists with a screening of Senso.

Goings On

DOC NYC, the largest documentary festival in the U.S., will present 300 films in eight days.

Goings On

Multimedia exhibitions of work by Andy Warhol, Chris Marker, Pedro Costa, and others are now on view around the world.

With the gradual rollout of his two-part semi-musical, Wang is seeing his strongest reviews yet.

Alice Rohrwacher’s third feature, currently playing in Europe, heads to home screens at the end of the month.

Did You See This?

The branding of Bergman, the arrival of The Other Side of the Wind, and more highlights of the week.

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

This sensuous, sprawling epic, which Ingmar Bergman intended to be his swan song, offers an effortless summing up of the themes—among them family, identity, and mortality—he'd spent a career exploring.

Repertory Picks

Seattle’s oldest continuously running movie theater showcases the career of one of American independent cinema’s great rebels.

Goings On

The UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles is presenting new restorations of B movies made on Poverty Row.

Lists of favorites from a genre on the rise.

The nominations for the British Independent Film Awards and the Louis Delluc Prize are out.

Deep Dives

A showcase for some of Boris Karloff’s most nuanced acting, this beguiling horror gem is perfect Halloween viewing.

Ridiculous on the outside but full of truth on the inside, Rob Reiner’s fairy-tale classic is a childhood touchstone for generations of movie lovers.

With Lee Chang-dong’s latest film opening in U.S. theaters, we take a look at the second wave of critical response.

Dark Passages

Supporting roles bring potent flavor to classic Hollywood’s darkest genre. In the first installment of a series, Imogen Sara Smith pays tribute to the queen of character actors: Thelma Ritter.