The Night

Feb 14, 2002 — Robert Bresson’s second feature is fixed in history as one of the movies that heralded an austere, modernistic way of seeing and feeling.

Jan 11, 1994 — A harrowing nightmare about life in inner-city hell, this 1993 sleeper-hit is a powerhouse filmmaking debut by the Hughes brothers.

Mar 8, 2021 — “I see the beauty now,” my mother told me when I asked her what she thought of Cicely Tyson’s face, about a week after the pathbreaking actor died in January at ninety-six. “But I didn’t then.” By “then,” she meant...

Dec 18, 2018 — Half a century before Julien Duvivier made his 1946 film Panique, the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon published his influential study of mob behavior, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, in which he argued that recent upheavals in...

Nov 3, 2016 — The George Eastman Museum screens John Frankenheimer’s 1962 psycho-political thriller in anticipation of election night.

Apr 23, 2026 — Julio Torres is a writer, director, and comedian from El Salvador. He is a two-time Peabody Award winner for HBO’s Los Espookys and Fantasmas, and earned four Emmy nominations for his work on Saturday Night Live. Torres made his feature...

Mar 9, 2020 — Kelly Reichardt is the director of seven feature films: River of Grass (1994), Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Night Moves (2013), Certain Women (2016), and First Cow (2019). Her work was the subject of a...

The writer and director returns to the Criterion Closet, where he talks about a moment from Black Narcissus that’s ingrained in his memory, shares what he loves about Max Ophuls and The Earrings of Madame de . . ., and...

The singer and actor reflects on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied and the importance of seeing Black queer men express themselves on-screen, talks about working with Regina King on One Night in Miami . . ., and selects favorites by Carl...

Apr 6, 2026 — New York’s Film Forum screens thirteen features by the master of urbane comedy.