Wit

Oct 23, 2024 — This month brings new books on Brian De Palma, Tobe Hooper, unhappy writers, and classic documentaries.

Oct 23, 2024 — This once-maligned horror film is an unsparing exploration of sexual violence, remarkably centered on a complex, fully realized female protagonist, played courageously by Barbara Hershey.

Oct 22, 2024 — In his entrancingly deviant directorial debut, Harmony Korine captures life in an impoverished, tragedy-stricken small town in all its beautiful fragility.

Oct 21, 2024 — Nick Newman presents A Tale of Autumn (1998) and The Chasers (1959) on Tuesday evening.

Oct 18, 2024 — Names in the news this week: Bette Gordon, Robert Frank, Don Hertzfeldt, Alfonso Cuarón, Cate Blanchett, and Quentin Tarantino.

Oct 15, 2024 — This jolt of delicious weirdness from Japanese New Wave master Masahiro Shinoda is both a reverent salute to Kabuki and a self-consciously postmodern take on its traditions.

Oct 8, 2024 — Telling a love story in three parts spanning more than twenty years, Jia offers a summing up before he turns a new page.

Oct 7, 2024 — The winner of the Grand Prix in Cannes is a portrait of three women in Mumbai—and at a crossroads in their lives.

Oct 3, 2024 — The winner of the top prize in San Sebastián, Serra’s first nonfiction feature screens at the New York Film Festival.

Oct 2, 2024 — The singer and songwriter who rerouted Nashville’s course became an unlikely but winning movie star.