The Best Years

Apr 7, 2025 — Children are the focus of several of the films in this year’s showcase of emerging filmmakers.

Apr 4, 2025 — Henry Fonda and Shinji Somai headline a week that also brings new issues of frieze and the Brooklyn Rail.

Nov 21, 2024 — Dennis Hopper’s bleakly nihilistic drama struggled to find an audience after it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980, but time has revealed it to be one of the most hardcore films about disaffected youth ever made.

Jun 25, 2024 — A collection on the Criterion Channel charts the evolution of the synthesizer—from its infancy in the 1950s to its maturity in the 1980s—and its transformative impact on film music.

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.

Apr 26, 2024 — The Official Selection is complete, Classics celebrates twenty years, and beyond Cannes, summer events are lining up.

Jan 29, 2024 — Get ready for Valentine’s Day with a collection of otherworldly love stories, and celebrate Black History Month with a selection of films exploring African American history.

Dec 7, 2023 — Nearly half of the films premiering in January will come from first-time directors, but there’ll also be new work from Steven Soderbergh and Richard Linklater.

Nov 10, 2023 — Black mothers’ stories come around again, Matt Wolf probes the archives, and Lizzie Borden conjures the streets of mid-1980s New York.

Oct 5, 2023 — Cailee Spaeny won the Best Actress award in Venice for her portrayal of Elvis Presley’s frightfully young girlfriend and wife.