Life of Brian

Jul 31, 2026 — Along with a new Senses of Cinema, the week brings writing on work by Rossellini, Bresson, De Palma, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Yashaddai Owens.

Jun 18, 2026 — Martin Scorsese, Agnès Varda, Lars von Trier, and Katharine Hepburn are just a few of the names you might be adding to your summer reading list.

Mar 20, 2026 — We’re reading up on the work of Jean-Luc Godard and Chantal Akerman—and Liza Minnelli has a new memoir.

May 21, 2025 — The exiled American director of Try and Get Me! and Hell Drivers depicted crime and violence as the inevitable results of capitalist competition.

Feb 25, 2025 — Misunderstood on release and mishandled by its distributor, this genuine cult classic opened the door to a radical new way of making films.

Apr 29, 2024 — The festival presents restorations of films by Renoir, Hawks, Malick, and more in Sydney and Melbourne.

May 16, 2023 — Inspired by golden-age monster movies and the story of a real-life mass murderer, Peter Bogdanovich’s debut feature evokes the psychic dread of America in the 1960s, a decade defined by long-distance and increasingly high-profile gun violence.

Aug 8, 2022 — The new Senses of Cinema features a dossier on the director currently being feted in Melbourne.

May 5, 2022 — Has Asian American cinematic representation really reached unprecedented heights, as almost all recent film coverage on the subject claims? In the past two years, critics’ polls, New York Times features, and Golden Globes scandals have marked the newfound success of...

Nov 21, 2019 — A richly varied showcase of Korean films made between 1996 and 2003 opens in New York.