Game on! Girl power gets a kick in the joystick as Hong Kong’s all-female esports underdogs turn a cha chaan teng diner into a pixel-bright comeback arena.
A murdered detective opens the way to a nine-year-old kidnapping case in Tetsuya Nakashima’s dark ensemble mystery of family wreckage and buried guilt.
Longman Leung’s Cold War blockbuster prequel rewinds to 1994 and old-school Hong Kong cinema, where a tycoon kidnapping unleashes cops, spies, triads, ransom panic, and colonial paranoia in a city changing hands.
The 50th Hong Kong Film Festival’s Closing Film, Philip Yung’s follow-up to the heartbreaking Papa centers on a trans woman who leaves mainland China for Hong Kong’s back alleys, falls in love, and explores the dangerous freedom to remake herself.
A lost white dog searches for home across 10 years and three human lives he changes in this moving three-director story of love and loyalty from GDH, the studio behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.
From Song Lang director Leon Le, this hushed, beautifully composed chamber drama set in 1985 Saigon centers on a romance between a young translator and a widowed cook from the defeated South.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
Three loves, at three ages, in three cities—17 in Macau, 22 in Taiwan, and 34 in Hong Kong—trace a queer filmmaker’s path from first crush to hard-won self-acceptance. Tracy Choi adapts her own story into warm, unguarded cinema.
A missing occult-magazine editor’s collection of urban legends points toward one terrifying place. The director of Noroi turns a viral Japanese web novel into found-document dread at its most unnerving and entertaining.
Two young Chinese expats and aspiring filmmakers drift apart when the pandemic strands her in Los Angeles and leaves him chasing his first feature in New York. Writer-director Yan Kunao, who also plays the lead, finds dry comedy in no-budget filmmaking and diaspora limbo.
Jane Campion’s ravishing, Palme d’Or–winning breakthrough, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in Oscar-winning roles, returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration—and still feels startlingly alive.
A string quartet of musicians from the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center performs works by Antonín Dvořák and Wynton Marsalis.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth, FLC partners with Piper-Heidsieck Champagne for a special archival 35mm screening of Howard Hawks’s classic, followed by a reception with Champagne, hors d’oeuvres, and a fundraiser auction.
This Film Comment program showcasing films renowned critic John Berger shaped, critiqued, or inspired includes a 35mm print of Pasolini’s rarely seen “furious screed against the Western bourgeois world and its hunger for war” and the North American premiere of Timothy Neat’s 1993 feature starring Berger.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
The 50th Hong Kong Film Festival’s Closing Film, Philip Yung’s follow-up to the heartbreaking Papa centers on a trans woman who leaves mainland China for Hong Kong’s back alleys, falls in love, and explores the dangerous freedom to remake herself.
A lost white dog searches for home across 10 years and three human lives he changes in this moving three-director story of love and loyalty from GDH, the studio behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.
From Song Lang director Leon Le, this hushed, beautifully composed chamber drama set in 1985 Saigon centers on a romance between a young translator and a widowed cook from the defeated South.
The Met’s 17th Summer HD Festival features five thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.
Three loves, at three ages, in three cities—17 in Macau, 22 in Taiwan, and 34 in Hong Kong—trace a queer filmmaker’s path from first crush to hard-won self-acceptance. Tracy Choi adapts her own story into warm, unguarded cinema.
A missing occult-magazine editor’s collection of urban legends points toward one terrifying place. The director of Noroi turns a viral Japanese web novel into found-document dread at its most unnerving and entertaining.
Two young Chinese expats and aspiring filmmakers drift apart when the pandemic strands her in Los Angeles and leaves him chasing his first feature in New York. Writer-director Yan Kunao, who also plays the lead, finds dry comedy in no-budget filmmaking and diaspora limbo.
Jane Campion’s ravishing, Palme d’Or–winning breakthrough, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in Oscar-winning roles, returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration—and still feels startlingly alive.
Jane Campion’s ravishing, Palme d’Or–winning breakthrough, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in Oscar-winning roles, returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration—and still feels startlingly alive.