The Boxer from Shantung (codirected with Bao Xueli, ) also known as Killer from Shantung

Jul 9, 2007 — The names Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kobo Abe, and Toru Takemitsu loom large among Japanese intellectuals of the late twentieth century. Each in his own right was an artist of peculiar genius, each resisting easy classification in conventional categories: Teshigahara as filmmaker,...

Dec 3, 2018 — Yorgos Lanthimos’s period romp wins a record ten British Independent Film Awards, and John Waters picks his ten favorite films of 2018.

Dec 13, 2023 — Critics have come around on his turns in Barry Lyndon and The Driver, and toward the end, he started patching things up with his family.

May 18, 2018 — Critics split over this “urban western,” Garrone’s fourth film in competition.

Jun 3, 1991 — Robert Montgomery stars in the Oscar-nominated role of Joe Pendleton, a lug of a boxer accidentally spirited off to heaven before his time, while Claude Rains is the title character whose job it is to find a way for Pendleton...

Feb 16, 2022 — Among the notable titles competing this year are new films from Sho Miyake, Gastón Solnicki, and Ashley McKenzie.

Mar 31, 1991 — In Jacques Tati’s final work, the physical borders of spectacle and audience are broken down through a variety of means.

Jun 4, 2001 — Mario Monicelli’s caper comedy is that genuine rarity in popular culture: a satire that not only helped kill off one movie genre, but started a whole new subgenre in the process.

Jul 29, 2025 — MoMA presents new restorations of three films from Germany and four from Hollywood.

Oct 23, 2014 — The author recalls meeting the filmmaker in a Swedish hotel in the ’70s.