The Half of It

Nov 8, 2019 — Woman of Tokyo (1933) screens tonight in Los Angeles, and Tokyo Twilight (1957) will play for a week in New York.

Sep 30, 2019 — Critics are enthralled by a mobster’s three-and-a-half-hour alternative history of the mid-twentieth century.

Aug 6, 2019 — The groundbreaking filmmaker had a hand in inventing—and then reinventing over and again—the modern documentary.

May 28, 2019 — Nadine Labaki’s jury has selected an eclectic range of award winners from this year’s program.

Jan 3, 2019 — We look ahead to films by Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Paul Verhoeven, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and dozens more.

Nov 1, 2018 — The UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles is presenting new restorations of B movies made on Poverty Row.

Jul 2, 2018 — Josef von Sternberg may have been one of cinema’s original micromanagers, but his films are testaments to longstanding collaborations with brilliant artists and technicians.

Jun 24, 2018 — During a period when studios gave him carte blanche, Josef von Sternberg created a sublime cinematic language that shrugged off one orthodoxy after another.

Mar 20, 2018 — “More than forty-two years after principal photography wrapped on Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind, a ‘locked picture’ is finally in place,” reports Ray Kelly at Wellesnet. “It is being color-corrected with sound work continuing as the movie...

Feb 28, 2018 — With the Oscars coming up this weekend, we gathered some highlights from an in-depth conversation with five of this year’s most-lauded directors.