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Feb 19, 2001 — Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s romance film spins a web of myth and evocative symbolism around its central search for self-discovery.

Philip Horne is a professor at University College London and the editor of Henry James: A Life in Letters (Penguin, 1999), Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film (with Peter Swaab; Manchester University Press, 2008), and Tales from a Master’s Notebook:...

Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film at Exeter University. She has written and edited numerous books and articles on contemporary cinema, feminism, sexuality, and censorship, including Sex in the Head: Visions of Femininity and Film in D. H. Lawrence;...

Nick James is the former editor of Sight and Sound magazine. His book on Michael Mann’s Heat was published in 2002. He has written for many publications and is a frequent contributor to Sight and Sound and the Observer.

Andrew Moor is a reader in film history and theory at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces and coedited, with Ian Christie, The Cinema of Michael Powell: International Perspectives on...

Dennis Perrin is the author of Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue, The Man Who Made Comedy Dangerous (Avon Books) and American Fan: Sports Mania and the Culture That Feeds It (Spike/HarperCollins).

Ian Christie is a film historian, curator, broadcaster, and professor of film and media history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited many books on Russian, British, and American cinema—including Arrows of Desire: The Films of...

Jul 24, 2026 — September will bring new films from Lee Chang-dong, Julia Loktev, Barbara Kopple, Mariano Llinás, and Takashi Miike.

Jul 22, 2026 — This year’s Gala and Special Presentations will include new work from Tim Blake Nelson, Takashi Miike, Wayne Wang, and Anton Corbijn.

Jul 21, 2026 — New restorations of the first three features premiere this weekend, followed by a retrospective next month.