Closer

Jan 11, 2017 — A revelatory restoration of Lewis Milestone’s underappreciated newsroom comedy accentuates the film’s punchy rhythms and breakneck banter.

Jan 4, 2017 — Repertory PicksPlaying this week at the Charles Theatre, in Baltimore, Maryland, Gregory La Cava’s delightful 1936 romp My Man Godfrey stars the effervescent Carole Lombard as eccentric Manhattan socialite Irene, who decides to hire a man she believes to be...

Dec 7, 2016 — Repertory PicksThis weekend, the Indiana University Cinema screens Costa-Gavras’s 1969 thriller Z as part of an ongoing series of films selected by the university’s president. Loosely inspired by the 1963 assassination of Greek left-wing activist Gregoris Lambrakis, this Oscar-winning classic...

Nov 30, 2016 — Today, we’re celebrating the seventy-third birthday of one of American cinema’s most lyrical and enigmatic storytellers. Over the course of more than four decades, Terrence Malick has established a distinctive aesthetic that juxtaposes the majestic beauty of nature with the...

Nov 11, 2016 — Last night, we were heartbroken to learn of the passing of Leonard Cohen at the age of eighty-two. A trailblazing musician who started out as a poet and novelist, Cohen established himself as one of the world’s most influential singer-songwriters,...

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

Oct 26, 2016 — The tropes of light comedy give way to a Kafkaesque nightmare in this incendiary critique of moral rot in Franco-era Spain.

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

Sep 23, 2016 — Writer Amy Fine Collins discusses the costume designs by Travilla that are featured in Mark Robson’s 1967 melodrama.

Sep 1, 2016 — Balancing epic scale with lyrical intimacy, Orson Welles inflects the spirit of Shakespeare’s history plays with his own zest for cinematic invention.