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Sep 21, 2018 — This week’s round of five highlights begins with a new column and a new issue of Film Quarterly.

Sep 17, 2018 — Critics pick their favorite premieres of the season, and Toronto audiences vote up a surprise winner.

Sep 10, 2018 — One of the pleasures of programming a new short-and-feature pairing every week on the Criterion Channel is getting to celebrate the artistic freedom that short films offer emerging artists. With tighter run times and smaller budgets, the form comes with...

Sep 6, 2018 — Repertory Picks Tomorrow, as part of its stalwart Summer Double Features series, New York City’s recently reopened Film Forum will give the big-screen treatment to a pair of strange—but strangely fitting—bedfellows: John Waters’ Female Trouble and Leonard Kastle’s The Honeymoon...

Aug 29, 2018 — A gorgeous new restoration of Jim Jarmusch’s surreal western Dead Man plays at Tivoli Cinemas tonight.

Aug 15, 2018 — More Galas and Special Presentations, but also the full Masters, Wavelengths, and Contemporary World Cinema lineups.

Aug 6, 2018 — The new half-hour series lives up to the promise of his unclassifiable debut feature.

Jul 20, 2018 — American audiences weren’t ready for Barbara Loden’s Wanda when it premiered in 1970. A stark portrait of a working-class woman (played with raw conviction by Loden herself) who breaks free of a miserable marriage, only to find herself on the...

Jul 17, 2018 — Without doubt, Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape struck a nerve when it was released in 1989. Astonishingly, it still does today. Among the most storied of American independent films, it debuted at the U.S. Film Festival (soon to be renamed the...

Jul 10, 2018 — The martial-arts film was never the same after King Hu got his hands on it, reinventing the genre with subtle editing and dazzling choreography.