Before the Revolution

May 31, 2019 — Chinese poets and American and English novelists figure prominently in this week’s round.

Jun 22, 2018 — Cinephiles converge in Bologna for nine days of discovery and conversation.

Feb 2, 2018 — For nearly a decade now, the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville has been a low-key event of high significance to the world of music. Writing about the 2016 edition in the New York Times, Ben Ratliff noted that it “has...

Oct 6, 2017 — Back when Projections was still called “Views from the Avant-Garde,” the New York Film Festival described its program as a “yearly touchstone for experimental film.” Now neither of those terms—“avant-garde” and “experimental”—are quite broad enough to encompass all that goes...

Sep 6, 2017 — New York. Back in April, Film Forum presented The Complete Wiseman: Part 1: Early Wiseman, the first half of a Frederick Wiseman retrospective that, as Matt Prigge notes in the Village Voice, “covered the prolific and pioneering documentarian’s angriest period.”...

Apr 16, 2007 — Following debates about tensions between police and immigrant communities in France, director Mathieu Kassovitz began a public correspondence with the right-wing minister of the interior Nicolas Sarkozy.

Jul 31, 2026 — Along with a new Senses of Cinema, the week brings writing on work by Rossellini, Bresson, De Palma, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Yashaddai Owens.

Sep 14, 2022 — Always innovating, Godard was one of the most vital and influential figures in the history of cinema.

May 8, 2023 — A new film by the late director is the clear highlight of this year’s Cannes Classics program.

Apr 26, 2022 — The Sydney-based festival of new restorations offers a rich set of globally accessible program notes.