First Blood

Oct 3, 2024 — The winner of the top prize in San Sebastián, Serra’s first nonfiction feature screens at the New York Film Festival.

Feb 6, 2024 — Tanaka Toshihiko’s first film launches a projected trilogy of stories set on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

Jan 17, 2024 — Steven Soderbergh contemplates writing his first novel, while Keanu Reeves already has; plus notes on Barbara Stanwyck, noir, and more.

Oct 30, 2023 — At a crucial point in the gleefully unhinged and unapologetically nihilistic teen horror movie Ginger Snaps (2000), two death-obsessed teen sisters wasting away in suburban Canada, Brigitte and Ginger, find themselves at their school nurse’s office, in a desperate final...

Nov 16, 2022 — Fifty new and recent restorations will screen at the Museum’s first-ever festival of preservation.

Oct 28, 2022 — The role of the vampire has given talented actors throughout film history—from Bela Lugosi to Catherine Deneuve—the chance to embody physical and moral extremity.

Sep 7, 2022 — The first reviews are in for new films by Martin McDonagh, Joanna Hogg, Emanuele Crialese, and Koji Fukada.

Aug 16, 2022 — The Safdie brothers drew inspiration from their childhood memories for their first feature as codirectors, a terrifying yet wondrous portrait of an unpredictable father.

Sep 27, 2021 — Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Coen’s first feature as a solo director.

Aug 28, 2020 — This week’s highlights feature paintings brought to life, pioneering citizen journalists, early “race films,” and the first Japanese wave.