On the Line

Jun 9, 2025 — Within the past few days, we’ve lost a vital film historian and a vibrant artist.

Aug 9, 2018 — World War II tears a young couple apart in the Palme d’Or–winning drama The Cranes Are Flying, playing on Sunday at Bard College.

Jul 3, 2025 — The week wraps with Peter Wollen on Performance, a top ten from Radu Jude, and a conversation with Dag Johan Haugerud.

Aug 8, 2024 — The two fall festivals will present films by Mohammad Rasoulof, Mike Leigh, Dea Kulumbegashvili, and Hong Sangsoo.

May 31, 2024 — Personal and political histories are inextricable in the late filmmaker’s documentaries.

Jun 8, 2018 — Both Italian directors broke from neorealism to head off in entirely different directions.

Jun 7, 2018 — The Ukraine-based filmmaker saw her work lauded and banned.

Jan 18, 2018 — One of the landmarks of 1960s Japanese cinema plays at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive this week.

Aug 24, 2017 — English theater legend Peter Brook’s adaptation of William Golding’s classic tale of youth and violence screens in London tonight in a Criterion copresentation.

Jul 27, 2017 — For the Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, Missouri, filmmaker David Lowery selects Ugetsu as a work that influenced his acclaimed new drama A Ghost Story.