On Film

The first film to premiere in competition in Cannes this year is already being discussed as a serious contender for the Palme d’Or.

The festival presents new restorations of films by Chantal Akerman, Charles Burnett, John Ford, and James Ivory.

Here’s a sampling of what we can look forward to in each of the festival’s programs.

In this masterpiece of lived-in ethical complexity and high spiritual stakes, Abbas Kiarostami explores the tensions between provinciality and modernity, and between artists and their subjects.

Daniel Kehlmann’s new novel The Director reimagines the life of G. W. Pabst, and there’s a minor role in it for Leni Riefenstahl.

Voices come in pairs this week: Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao, Daney and Rivette, Patrick Bateman and his fans.

The lineup features newly restored films by Chaplin, Kubrick, Mikio Naruse, Edward Yang, Satyajit Ray, and John Woo.

An absorbing fifty-three-minute meditation on a massive construction project opens in New York on May 14.

A two-part, thirty-film retrospective opens in New York before traveling to Berkeley, Harvard, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Audiences carry on flocking to Sinners, but few have seen either version of The Comeback Trail.

The director of Sambizanga is celebrated with a full retrospective in New York and a free evening of screenings in Los Angeles.

Elena Gorfinkel has written a new study of Loden’s groundbreaking feature and curated a season for the BFI.

The festival of experimental cinema will spotlight Ashish Avikunthak and the late Kumar Shahani.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the director of Three Seasons discusses a selection of landmark films that have shaped how we remember this devastating and divisive conflict.

A gritty look at New York City’s underground economy through the eyes of an immigrant street hustler, Sean Baker’s third feature film demonstrates his gift for combining hardscrabble social realism and mischievous humor.

Drawing from a rich tradition of films that depict the lives of sex workers, Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning triumph takes a complex approach to exploring the fundamentally transactional nature of human relationships.

In this exuberant and moving portrait of a Brooklyn sex worker, Sean Baker draws on themes he has explored throughout his career, depicting the workaday grind of twenty-first-century American existence with biting humor and clear-eyed humanity.

A black-and-white version of Julian Schnabel’s portrait of his fellow artist and friend Jean-Michel Basquiat accentuates the film’s melancholy mood while highlighting the deep commitment of Jeffrey Wright’s performance.

Australia’s festival of recent restorations celebrates Hollywood classics and rediscoveries from around the world.

A busy week brings writing on the LA Rebellion, Jean-Luc Godard, and Elaine May, and a conversation with Pedro Almodóvar.

New features from Lynne Ramsay, Saeed Roustaee, Kristen Stewart, Hlynur Pálmason, and Ethan Coen join the lineup.

World premieres of new restorations and plenty of anniversaries will be celebrated this year.

Adaptations, Hollywood histories, and Satyajit Ray’s cover designs feature in this month’s roundup.

This year’s edition spotlights work by Dea Kulumbegashvili, Alex Ross Perry, Eva Victor, and Ryan White.