1979 in film

Sep 25, 2020 — This week there’s a new Film Quarterly and a new frieze and fresh conversations with Jan Oxenberg and Paul Cronin.

Aug 19, 2020 — The NYFF presents its Revivals program and Martin Scorsese sends a message of encouragement and appreciation to Il Cinema Ritrovato.

Jan 17, 2020 — Cocteau in the ’50s, Jane Fonda in the ’60s, and Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in the ’70s feature in this week’s round.

Oct 29, 2019 — Matewan opens in the pitch-black darkness of a West Virginia coal mine. A miner lights the carbide lamp on his helmet. The small open flame he wears provides the only flicker of light in this cramped space next to a...

Mar 5, 2019 — In his final years, the Mauritanian filmmaker was thrilled to see his work reaching new audiences.

Aug 31, 2018 — And a pillar of American film criticism falls.

Jul 13, 2018 — A series in New York presents all ten of the films featuring Hollywood’s most celebrated dance partners.

May 22, 2017 — Abel Ferrara’s “visits to Cannes almost invariably turn into special occasions, whether he's hosting an off-fest screening of an incendiary Dominique Strauss-Kahn film à clef or, in 2008, offering his opinion of the Bad Lieutenant remake,” writes Ben Kenigsberg at...

Dec 9, 2016 — With a career spanning more than seven decades, Kirk Douglas has long since earned his place among the most luminous figures in Hollywood history. After cutting his teeth on the New York stage, he began his film career in the...

Sep 27, 2016 — This monumental meditation on the Ten Commandments captures the spiritual undercurrents of life in late-Communist Poland.