Who Is Alec Leamas?

Sneak Peeks

Sep 10, 2013 Novelist John Le Carré created one of literature’s most fascinating characters in Alec Leamas, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’s main heavy, who is on a final, fateful mission in East Germany. In Martin Ritt’s movie version, now...

Jul 14, 2026 News of his “sudden and unexpected” passing has drawn a flood of appreciation and genuine affection.

Enduring Portraits

The Daily

Jun 18, 2026 We’re wrapping the week with top docs, Black writers, screwball comedies, and appreciations of Raoul Peck and Jafar Panahi.

Jun 17, 2026 Channel Calendars This month on the Criterion Channel, celebrate the hundredth birthday of the great Harry Dean Stanton, delight in the twists and thrills of our Murderous Melodramas collection, or binge the surreal cult-favorite TV series The Prisoner. There’s so...

Jun 16, 2026 BAM presents twelve films ranging from the early 1960s through the late 1980s.

Apr 29, 2026 Deep Dives You look at Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Third Generation (1979), and you see the snarky, risky spirit of the New Wave movements that emerged around the world in the 1960s and ’70s in full, defiant bloom. But what...

Apr 27, 2026 During the evening rush on a busy Los Angeles boulevard, a man steps into a news-vendor’s stall and scans the out-of-town papers section, where journals offer balm for homesick travelers and transplants. But his hometown, Evanston, Illinois, is missing—no call...

Sixties Shinoda

The Daily

Mar 25, 2026 The Harvard Film Archive celebrates the first decade of work by a key figure of the Japanese New Wave.

Mar 10, 2026 Metrograph presents a retrospective of work by a filmmaker championed by Godard, Rivette, and Bazin.

Jan 22, 2026 This visually stunning masterpiece from Kazakh New Wave iconoclast Ardak Amirkulov is one of the few films that looks evil in the eye without flinching.

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