The Work

Barry Michael Cooper is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He wrote the films New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim. Cooper also worked as a writer and supervising producer on Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It....

Cyril Neyrat has served on the editorial board of Cahiers du cinéma and as editor in chief of the film journal Vertigo. His film criticism has been published internationally in periodicals, in catalogs, in collected volumes, and on the website...

Jan 21, 2026 — New films by Angela Schanelec, Lance Hammer, and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun will premiere in the competition.

Dec 17, 2025 — This January, savor multiple levels of nostalgia with a survey of ’90s cinema’s riffs on the ’70s, or turn a new page with a collection of films about dreamers seeking fresh starts in life.

Nov 18, 2025 — This December, make yourself at home in some of cinema’s most memorable hotels, celebrate Julianne Moore’s bracingly human performances, or explore the trailblazing debuts of Black women filmmakers.

Jul 7, 2025 — Karlovy Vary premieres a new restoration of the last great film of the Czechoslovak New Wave.

Oct 24, 2024 — A hit at the New York Film Festival, the Mobile Closet heads to Brooklyn this weekend.

May 3, 2022 — A Melbourne Cinémathèque series of double bills spotlights Lang’s penchant for drilling into the darkest recesses of human nature.

Jul 7, 2018 — The movie theater Lee Harvey Oswald ducked into after shooting John F. Kennedy has undergone a reinvention, becoming one of the most exciting cultural hubs in Dallas.

Jan 8, 2018 — Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy offer some of their impressions from the making of John Hughes’s pop-culture sensation.