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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Michael Mann, M. Night Shyamalan, James Gray, Robert Eggers, and Lance Oppenheim are among the many directors who will be taking questions.

The Museum of Modern Art celebrates six decades of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and the Millennium Film Workshop.

The first phase of the fall festival season wraps with a big win for Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La bola negra.

We’re remembering Patricio Guzmán and spotlighting new writing on Sarah Maldoror, Tsui Hark, and the Up series.

You may think you already know more than enough about the man, but critics find that there’s “a fearsome power” in the way Gibney’s brought it all together.

The late producer’s collaborators include Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Oshima, Skolimowski, Roeg, and Takashi Miike.

May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown wins the Golden Lion, and NAZA, codirected by Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, wins a Special Jury Prize.

An eclectic mix this week: Iranian cinema, archival deep dives, Neptune Frost, Pauline Kael, and It Ends.