On Film

Did You See This?

In the spotlight this week: A new resource on avant-garde cinema, Kent Jones on Francis Ford Coppola, Darren Hughes on Claire Denis, and more.

Performances

In the one great film role of his career, the comedian and radio personality used his beloved, minimalist performance style to capture the silliness of human vanity.

This year promises a healthy mix of renowned auteurs and younger talents—and there’s more to come.

Goings On

Showcasing new work by filmmakers at the forefront of nonfiction and hybrid cinema, this year’s edition also pays tribute to three vital groundbreakers.

Dark Passages

In Frank Borzage’s Southern Gothic noir Moonrise, the actor captures a heartbreaking mixture of love and fear with his deeply empathetic (and very brief) portrayal of a deaf-mute.

In a Lonely Place (1950), screening Friday at MoMA, and The Big Heat (1953), featured on the Criterion Channel, score high on Slant’s list of top noirs.

Injecting the Czechoslovak New Wave with postmodern rage and formal risk, Jan Němec’s debut feature is a merciless look at human consciousness under siege.

She was known as “a professional innocent”—until Persona (1966) revealed a complex emotional intelligence.

With a new film in theaters and two early works on the Criterion Channel, the Chinese wunderkind talks with us about the challenges he’s faced while forging his idiosyncratic path through cinema.

Did You See This?

This week sees further remembrances of Agnès Varda, reflections on Godard then and now, and appreciations of a vital but too often overlooked filmmaker, Nelly Kaplan.

Known for his work with John Cassavetes, the actor was rediscovered a generation later in films by Wes Anderson.

Repertory Picks

One of French master Jacques Demy’s starkest films screens at the Avon in a series of Gallic classics.

The Dead Don’t Die, a zombie comedy, will put an army of stars on the red carpet.

One Scene

Early in his boundary-pushing Sweet Movie, Serbian renegade Dušan Makavejev stages a pageant of visual grotesquerie that speaks to the luridness of our contemporary age.

Did You See This?

Deep dives into the work of Bob Fosse and Buster Keaton and a mash note to Aki Kaurismäki lead this week’s highlights.

With his feature debut now in theaters, one of our longtime contributors shares his memories of the moviegoing experiences that have shaped him.

Repertory Picks

One of Yasujiro Ozu’s lesser-known genre films, Dragnet Girl screens with an electronic score by the band Coupler next Tuesday in New York.

This month’s round features Dalí’s Marx Brothers movie, Bergman family drama, Welles’s unpublished play, and more.

On the occasion of the premiere of his new film, Peterloo, we talked with the British master about what keeps him going as an artist and what he enjoys most about his idiosyncratic process.

The artist, photographer, and filmmaker leaves behind one of the most varied and restless oeuvres in cinema.

Did You See This?

Fresh assessments of the work of Chris Marker and Stanley Kubrick, an interview with Kent Jones, and that stellar year for American cinema, 1999.

At a time when Mexican audiences were taught to equate good cinema with foreign cinema, Carlos Reygadas heralded the arrival of something new with his audaciously poetic first feature.

Flashbacks

One of the most audacious voices to emerge from Tito’s Yugoslavia, the late director had a genius for smuggling incendiary ideas into freewheeling satires.

Goings On

Twenty-four features by some of the world’s most promising directors are screening in New York through April 7.