The Disco

Oct 1, 2018 — The Oscar-winning director got his start with the beautifully atmospheric 2003 short film My Josephine, now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck.

Jun 18, 2007 — Dušan Makavejev’s masterpiece explores sexual freedoms and their perils in both New York and Belgrade, using each city and set of practices and problems to help define the other.

Nov 26, 2001 — Peter Weir’s first film to be released in America insists on the tangible power of spiritual life.

May 5, 2026 — The nation’s largest silent film festival returns to the newly renovated Castro Theatre.

Jan 9, 2026 — The director of some of the bleakest films ever made once claimed all they were all comedies—except one.

Dec 9, 2025 — In one of cinema’s greatest love stories, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger use the mercurial beauty of Scotland’s Inner Hebrides to evoke the unruly passions of an indelible heroine.

Nov 27, 2024 — The week offers evasive icons, an archive to rummage through, and a great but overlooked critic.

Jul 25, 2024 — Claude Chabrol, Bong Joon Ho, Ann Hui, Anna Cobb, and Wei Shujun are among the names that have come up this week.

Nov 16, 2023 — A new restoration of beguiling 1970 oddity opens this weekend in cities across the country.

Sep 27, 2023 — After winning a handful of top awards in Beijing, the novelist-turned-filmmaker’s thirteenth fictional feature arrives in New York.