On Film

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.

Hal Ashby nods to Stanley Kubrick, Yasmina Price presents a dossier on Kevin Jerome Everson, and Axelle Ropert plays a game.

Having achieved fame for her work in On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, Saint insisted on putting her private family life first.

A nocturnal journey through Paris pauses here and there to listen in on women’s conversations about the complexities of their lives.

A dystopian drama that draws on the influences of African mythology and hip-hop, Ngozi Onwurah’s debut feature uses a mix of speculative forms to expose anti-Blackness as a system that underpins the modern world.

This week is packed with festival openings, special screenings, series, and retrospectives.

Andrew Scott and Rami Malek play dying actors determined to give their all to their art in the late 1980s.

As we mark the Andrzej Wajda centennial, Paweł Pawlikowski looks back on the twentieth century from another angle. Plus: Rohmer, Burnett, Fosse, and Wiene.

The Bhutanese director and leading Tibetan Buddhist teacher talks about his wide range of aesthetic influences, his experience working with Bernardo Bertolucci, and film’s connection to meditation.

Reviews may be mixed, but everyone agrees that the main attraction is Rooney and Kate Mara’s sister act.

In this tale of four privileged bachelors who embark on a trip to the Indian countryside, Satyajit Ray balances a biting critique of masculine fragility with splendid visual grace.

The body-swap mystery stumped more than a few viewers in Cannes, but it seems to have found its footing in New York.

With their mix of comedy, ecstasy, and aesthetic strangeness, the French auteur’s first three features grant us access to psychic states that we might not otherwise be able to enter.

Shirley Clarke, Orson Welles, George Cukor, Lynne Ramsay, Olivier Assayas, Bree Daniels . . . quite a roundup this month.

Anchored by an extraordinary performance from Sandrine Bonnaire, the epic historical drama Joan the Maid strips away its saintly protagonist’s mythic aura and gives us a humbler, more intimate version of her life story.

David Lynch keeps reentering the conversation, and so does Pauline Kael. Plus: A roundup of recent newsletters.

While artistic director Dennis Lim lays the groundwork, Film Comment, the Film Stage, and Slant offer guidance through the program.

The elegantly crafted portmanteau films Quartet, Trio, and Encore adapt twelve spellbinding tales of deception and passion from one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century.