The Set-Up

Dec 8, 2025 — BAM presents These Encounters of Theirs on 35 mm, and Pedro Costa screens and discusses movies in Copenhagen.

Apr 15, 2024 — Eleven first and second features are slated to premiere, seven of them in competition.

Feb 13, 2021 — Ify Chiejina is a Nigerian American artist from Queens, New York, with a multifaceted process that incorporates drawing, painting, collage, and pattern design, resulting in a distinctive approach to portraiture. Her work speaks to themes of family, identity, and a...

May 22, 2019 — Cannes 2019 While politics has never been a stranger to the Cannes Film Festival lineup, this year’s offerings have proven to be even more charged than usual. And one of the more lively and notable premieres on the Croisette so...

Aug 9, 2018 — Martin Scorsese presents a second round of innovative but overlooked “B” movies.

Feb 1, 2018 — The first half of the series Martin Scorsese Presents Republic Rediscovered: New Restorations from Paramount Pictures, organized by Dave Kehr, a curator in the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film in association with Scorsese’s Film Foundation and Paramount Pictures,...

Dec 28, 2014 — In person, Sam was a blunt-nosed nonconformist, small of stature but forever leading with his Cuban cigar.

Mar 29, 2011 — Attention, all debutantes, disco lovers, and urban haute bourgeoisie: the first film in well over a decade from Whit Stillman—whose comedies of manners Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco are available from the Criterion Collection, and who discusses his...

Oct 28, 2007 — When I started preparing for a new transfer of The Ice Storm, I asked director Ang Lee if he wanted to supervise the session. Ang said that he’d like the cinematographer, Fred Elmes, to supervise, and that he would come...

Mar 19, 1996 — “[He] loves to set his figures in action against greenish or purplish backgrounds, in which we can glimpse the phosphorescence of decay and sniff the coming storm.”—Charles Baudelaire, writing on Edgar Allan Poe What’s striking about Seven is that the...