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Jul 28, 2017 — One of the wittiest chroniclers of modern American life, Albert Brooks talks with filmmaker Robert Weide about how he arrived at the concept for Lost in America. Also: a few words from James L. Brooks.

Jul 27, 2017 — For the Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, Missouri, filmmaker David Lowery selects Ugetsu as a work that influenced his acclaimed new drama A Ghost Story.

Jul 25, 2017 — Albert Brooks brings the gift for comic deconstruction he honed in his stand-up career to this uproarious satire of baby boomer values.

Jul 19, 2017 — A showcase for the bighearted sensibility of the late Jonathan Demme, the tonally intricate comic thriller Something Wild plays in Athens, Georgia, today through Sunday.

Jul 5, 2017 — Louis Malle’s intimate portrait of the American immigrant experience, commissioned on the centenary of the Statue of Liberty, screens in Pittsburgh this weekend.

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

Oct 13, 2016 — Jean Renoir’s captivating coming-of-age tale The River, playing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, centers on the relationship between three teenage girls growing up in Bengal, India.

Sep 29, 2016 — Ciné, in Athens, Georgia, screens Roman Polanski’s 1968 occult masterpiece, starring Mia Farrow as a woman who believes her husband and elderly neighbors are involved in a satanic plot against her and her unborn child.

Sep 8, 2016 — Mike Leigh’s 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet, showing at the Trylon microcinema as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director’s early films, presents an intimate portrait of working-class life in Thatcher-era north London.

Aug 4, 2016 — The Vancity Theatre is screening Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s penultimate feature, the second installment of his BRD trilogy, a series of films centered on women in postwar Germany.