The Disco

Sep 3, 2018 — The producers behind our edition of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s masterpiece share stories they discovered from researching the film and the turbulent political climate that inspired it.

Oct 30, 2012 — “I discovered Criterion in the late eighties with the laserdisc of
 Citizen Kane, which I still watch,” writes director William Friedkin, whose films include The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, and 2011’s Killer Joe. “Since switching to DVD and Blu-ray,...

The singer-songwriter reminisces about the pleasure of discovering Czechoslovak New Wave films on trips to the video store, shares why Moonstruck ignited her Nicolas Cage fandom, and praises the use of classical music in The Piano Teacher.

The legendary French auteur talks about the intimacy of discovering yourself in cinema, shares her lifelong connection to Viridiana and Black Orpheus, and praises directors whose work continues to inspire and transport her, from Elia Kazan and David Lynch to...

The actor describes the beauty of discovering Agnès Varda, shares how Mean Streets inspired his desire to act, and selects all-time favorite films, from Five Easy Pieces to The Leopard.

Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, and a contributing writer for Cineaste magazine. His books include Discomfort and Joy: The Cinema of Bill Forsyth (2011) and The New...

Apr 16, 2026 — This month, take a peek at movie history through the prism of the ’80s: our collection of the decade’s best remakes and the originals that inspired them reveals an era of wild reinventions and sly revisionism.

Jan 22, 2026 — A singular achievement in Arab film history, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s sweeping political epic is a memorial to the lives lost in the struggle for Algerian independence.

Jul 15, 2025 — Much of the program upends assumptions about the postwar years as a period of relative calm and conformity.

Jul 1, 2024 — BAM will launch a nine-film series with the one film that stars both, Robert Altman’s 3 Women.