The Work

Surreal, structural, et cetera: A handful of visionary, largely nonnarrative works belong to the collection, from some of the most important experimental film artists around the world—Jean Painlevé, Kenneth Macpherson, Stan Brakhage, and Chantal Akerman among them.

Sep 22, 1997 — The English Patient was the ?rst book of Michael Ondaatje’s I had read, and I thought it was remarkable.Two weeks after ?nishing the novel, Anthony Minghella telephoned from London and asked, “How could we do this as a movie?” Being...

The writer and director shares how an act of generosity from Wim Wenders changed his life, recalls how Working Girls influenced the tone of Exotica, and explores the “erotic energy” of Walkabout.

Moira Weigel is an assistant professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (2016) and editor, with Ben Tarnoff, of Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What...

Apr 6, 2026 — New York’s Film Forum screens thirteen features by the master of urbane comedy.

Aug 8, 2024 — Curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, Locarno’s retrospective celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Columbia Pictures.

Aug 6, 2024 — Seventeen features are lined up to compete for the top prize in Locarno.

Jul 8, 2024 — The other big winner in Karlovy Vary is Lilja Ingolfsdottir, whose Loveable takes home five awards.

Dec 13, 2023 — As twenty-five films are added, the Academy Museum spotlights the Registry’s thirty-five-year history.

Nov 27, 2023 — The activist spirit of Sergei Eisenstein haunts two new books.