The Complex

May 31, 2018 — Repertory Picks On Saturday evening, the Bay Area’s Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will play host to Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, screening as part of the series Early Music on Film. (The two-week program is itself part of...

Feb 23, 2017 — Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-nominated breakthrough revels in the complexities of the female psyche.

Aug 31, 2021 — Cary Joji Fukunaga’s devastating child-soldier movie unflinchingly captures the shock of war without forsaking the complexity of human experience.

Dec 21, 2017 — No one has captured the complexities of forbidden love with more intimacy than Celia Johnson in David Lean’s classic romance.

Jun 30, 2016 — In Olivier Assayas’s 2014 film Clouds of Sils Maria, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart play out a story centered on the complexities of female relationships, the making and undoing of boundaries between people, and our anxieties about the passage of...

The critic and cowriter of Nightmare Alley explores the complexity of Gene Tierney’s femme fatale in Leave Her to Heaven, compares Adam Sandler and Paul Thomas Anderson’s work on Punch-Drunk Love to the collaboration of James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock,...

The legendary Iranian filmmaker explored the boundaries between reality and fiction, the complexities of childhood, and the beauty of his country’s landscapes.

The director and cinematographer is renowned for her formally innovative documentaries, which explore the ethics of filmmaking and spectatorship and the complexity of her own personal relationships.

The influential cinematographer talks about films that informed his visual style, praises the complexity and simplicity of Yi Yi, and analyzes the opening sequence of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Blue.

Jan 20, 2026 — This month, leap into a century of cinema’s greatest stunts, feel the ache of thwarted romance and bittersweet yearning, or get into trouble with the Depression-era hustlers of Mervyn LeRoy’s pre-Code films.