Up Against It

Dec 1, 2025 — One of the most vital playwrights of our era was also an award-winning screenwriter.

Nov 20, 2025 — To complement his new exhibition, Jafa programs a series of four double bills.

Nov 12, 2025 — He anchored some of the best films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Okamoto, Naruse, and Teshigahara.

Oct 30, 2025 — Classics of the genre—including Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession and David Cronenberg’s The Fly—explore the gory extremes of corporeal experience.

Oct 28, 2025 — The first of Arturo Ripstein’s films to receive wider international acclaim, this blood-soaked, surrealist vision of amour fou harks back to the director’s roots as an admirer and protégé of Luis Buñuel.

Oct 3, 2025 — Among them are the latest from Claire Denis, the return of Daniel Day-Lewis, and a dazzling restoration.

Sep 29, 2025 — Notes on new studies of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick and biographies of Jane Birkin and Terrence Malick.

Sep 16, 2025 — A portrait of a new generation of feminist consciousness in the New York art world, Lizzie Borden’s first film project spikes with a persistent friction between the filmmaker and her documentary subjects.

Sep 8, 2025 — After wildly successful stops in multiple cities across the United States and, most recently, in Toronto at TIFF, we’re making a trip to Chicago!

Sep 5, 2025 — We’re listening in this week on conversations with Charlie Kaufman, Alice Diop, and Zeinabu irene Davis.