To Be or Not to Be

Aug 20, 2024 — In the late 1980s, filmmakers Gregorio Rocha and Sarah Minter set out to capture the rebellious subculture of youth in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, a slumlike suburb synonymous with the worst failures of urban expansion in Mexico.

Aug 20, 2024 — Delon brought to the films of Melville, Visconti, Deray, and Losey one of the most beautiful faces in all of cinema.

Aug 20, 2024 — In her formally daring debut feature, Martha Coolidge stages a confrontation with the subject of date rape that questions the kind of “closure” required in conventional storytelling.

Jul 30, 2024 — Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng will be on hand for a fourteen-film American Cinematheque retrospective.

Jul 17, 2024 — Summer reading options range from fiction to philosophy, from the fog of war to finicky fame.

Jul 17, 2024 — With a deep dive under the hood of Ferrari, Mann aims to explain how he goes about making a movie.

Jul 2, 2024 — Self-destruction is not only an aesthetic but its own subject matter in Sam Peckinpah’s deeply elegiac western, a towering masterpiece that examines American power and greed.

Jun 27, 2024 — At their best, movies that showcase a sizable collective of virtuosic actors can give you the feeling of a rich ecosystem being brought to life.

Jun 6, 2024 — In the run-up to the release of Green Border, the Museum of the Moving Image will present a two-week, ten-film survey of her work.

Jun 4, 2024 — A doc on the Brat Pack, a new feature from Joel Potrykus, and an animated trip to Mars are among this year’s highlights.