Lau Kar-leung is widely credited as a pioneer in introducing a new conceptual wit to the kung-fu film, and his facility in that regard is amply attested to by this wackadoodle wuxia about the eponymous jewel thief (Wong Yu) who, nursing his wounds after…
Lau Kar-leung is widely credited as a pioneer in introducing a new conceptual wit to the kung-fu film, and his facility in that regard is amply attested to by this wackadoodle wuxia about the eponymous jewel thief (Wong Yu) who, nursing his wounds after…
Catherine Deneuve plays Séverine, a frigid bourgeoisie housewife impeccably turned out in Yves Saint Laurent and bored to tears with her conventional young husband, in Buñuel’s droll, deliciously perverse pillar of arthouse screen eroticism, which…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
With their last high school concert only days away, bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi’s hopes of taking the stage appear to be dashed when their lead singer quits the group, leaving them to hastily recruit a Korean exchange student with a limited grasp…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
Alongside his more touted multi-character panoramas, Altman also had a fondness for small-scale dramas investigating the complexities of female psychology, and of these none is greater than the ineffable 3 Women, which finds Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek,…
Described by Sganzerla—21 years old when he directed his wild-eyed feature debut—as a “Western about the Third World,” The Red Light Bandit drew inspiration from the exploits of João Acácio Pereira da Costa, a recently arrested career criminal…
Chilean-born mime-turned-filmmaker Jodorowsky plays the title role in this acid Western staple of the midnight movies, strapping on the six-shooter as a lone gunfighter—his name means “The Mole” in Spanish—traveling across a psychedelic desert…
Isaach De Bankolé is a mysterious operative in Spain on an equally obscure mission, making his way through a string of cryptic meetings en route to an appointment at a fortress-like compound overseen by a sinister Bill Murray in Jarmusch’s espionage…
Isaach De Bankolé is a mysterious operative in Spain on an equally obscure mission, making his way through a string of cryptic meetings en route to an appointment at a fortress-like compound overseen by a sinister Bill Murray in Jarmusch’s espionage…
A film in which sound, often off-screen, enriches the image, and carries enormous, frequently tragic implications: the tinkling shatter of a glass of white wine seen precipitously perched on an upright piano, the sound of an open palm crossing a young...
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
Made as the declining Shaw Brothers Studio entered its twilight years, Lau’s Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, inspired by Song dynasty folklore, has all the radiant beauty of a spectacular sunset, a showcase for all that the Shaw machine, at the height of…
Described by Sganzerla—21 years old when he directed his wild-eyed feature debut—as a “Western about the Third World,” The Red Light Bandit drew inspiration from the exploits of João Acácio Pereira da Costa, a recently arrested career criminal…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
Los Angeles cabbie Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) is in for the toughest fare of his working life when he picks up one Vincent (Tom Cruise, natty in charcoal gray sharkskin suit), a jazz enthusiast and professional hitman who quite firmly insists that his…
Isaach De Bankolé is a mysterious operative in Spain on an equally obscure mission, making his way through a string of cryptic meetings en route to an appointment at a fortress-like compound overseen by a sinister Bill Murray in Jarmusch’s espionage…
Based on a children’s novel of the same name by Dodie Smith, animated musical One Hundred and One Dalmatians gave the Walt Disney pantheon one of its greatest villains in the person of vindictive and indefatigable heiress Cruella de Vil (voiced by Betty…
Lau Kar-leung is widely credited as a pioneer in introducing a new conceptual wit to the kung-fu film, and his facility in that regard is amply attested to by this wackadoodle wuxia about the eponymous jewel thief (Wong Yu) who, nursing his wounds after…
Introduction by artist Kristin Walsh on Sunday, July 26th
This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey…
With their last high school concert only days away, bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi’s hopes of taking the stage appear to be dashed when their lead singer quits the group, leaving them to hastily recruit a Korean exchange student with a limited grasp…
A film in which sound, often off-screen, enriches the image, and carries enormous, frequently tragic implications: the tinkling shatter of a glass of white wine seen precipitously perched on an upright piano, the sound of an open palm crossing a young...
Chilean-born mime-turned-filmmaker Jodorowsky plays the title role in this acid Western staple of the midnight movies, strapping on the six-shooter as a lone gunfighter—his name means “The Mole” in Spanish—traveling across a psychedelic desert…
With their last high school concert only days away, bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi’s hopes of taking the stage appear to be dashed when their lead singer quits the group, leaving them to hastily recruit a Korean exchange student with a limited grasp…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
Described by Sganzerla—21 years old when he directed his wild-eyed feature debut—as a “Western about the Third World,” The Red Light Bandit drew inspiration from the exploits of João Acácio Pereira da Costa, a recently arrested career criminal…
The film that made a star of Sharon Stone, seen to good effect in Verhoeven’s previous Carolco production, Total Recall, and that also provided the studio a succès de scandale windfall. Perfectly poised as she negotiates her way through the most…
Back in the days when the system would still occasionally let a visionary blockbuster slip through, gleefully perverse Dutchman Verhoeven teamed up with an Austrian-born weightlifter who was then the biggest action star in the world to make a big-budget…
It’s the eve of the Christmas holiday, and polite, young middle-class schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond), tied to a position at a tiny township in the outback, is on his way to Sydney to see his girlfriend by way of a stopoff in the grubby mining burg…
A surreal nocturnal animated odyssey from Yuasa, the mad genius behind Mind Game, rendered in a frenetic, galaxy-brained, endlessly morphing style. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl follows a mysterious high schooler known only as The Girl with Black Hair…
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again…” Hitchcock was still a newly arrived UK import when this gothic thriller/romance, based on the novel of the same title by Daphne du Maurier, took Outstanding Production (later “Best Picture”)…
Wong’s arthouse smash is the very simple tale of two people in early ’60s Hong Kong, Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Mrs. Chen (Maggie Cheung), drawn to one another by the discovery that their spouses are getting together on the side.
The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized housing projects.
With their last high school concert only days away, bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi’s hopes of taking the stage appear to be dashed when their lead singer quits the group, leaving them to hastily recruit a Korean exchange student with a limited grasp…
One of Truffaut’s most personal and beautiful films, photographed “in fecund greens and withering yellows” [Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader] by DP Néstor Almendros, and one of the least known of Truffaut’s major works—audiences, it seems, weren’t…
Sixteen years after starring in Yuen Woo-ping’s Drunken Master, the film that cemented its star’s place as the clown prince of martial arts cinema, Jackie Chan returned to the role of bibulous warrior Wong Fei-hung (aka “Freddie Wong”) with Lau in…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
“White kids graduated into an industry, we graduated into a desert,” decries "Sankofa" (1993) director Haile Gerima in "Spirits of Rebellion", Zeinabu Irene Davis’s vital portrait of the LA Rebellion filmmaking collective, which was ...
Arguably the most formidable ensemble cast in the history of Hong Kong cinema assembled on the set of Hung’s Eastern Western, in which reformed outlaw Sammo teams with Sheriff (played by Yuen Biao) to protect their impoverished rural hometown from a…
A diplomat’s son whose early years were divided between Chad, Guatemala, Mexico, and Paris, Ugo Bienvenu, who studied at Gobelins and CalArts, has developed a practice encompassing animation, illustration, music videos, commercial work.
When a loosely defined guerrilla art movement called No Wave coalesced in the gutted Lower East Side of the late 1970s and ’80s, Amos Poe, arguably the first punk filmmaker, was immediately identified as one of its leading lights.
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again…” Hitchcock was still a newly arrived UK import when this gothic thriller/romance, based on the novel of the same title by Daphne du Maurier, took Outstanding Production (later “Best Picture”)…
A film in which sound, often off-screen, enriches the image, and carries enormous, frequently tragic implications: the tinkling shatter of a glass of white wine seen precipitously perched on an upright piano, the sound of an open palm crossing a young...
The alpha and omega of conspiracy films, Stone’s deliriously entertaining cinematic inquest stars Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney who came to find the circumstances of the 35th US president’s assassination more than a…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
From money laundering to influence peddling, casino gambling to dabbling in controversial politics, the life of Serge Alexandre, aka Stavisky, flashes before our eyes and we see the making and unmaking of the theatrically charming con artist who used…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized housing projects.
A surreal nocturnal animated odyssey from Yuasa, the mad genius behind Mind Game, rendered in a frenetic, galaxy-brained, endlessly morphing style. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl follows a mysterious high schooler known only as The Girl with Black Hair…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
For the operatic final film in Leone and star Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” trilogy, production designer Carlo Simi brought the American Civil War to the plains and rugged plateaus of Spain, creating an epic canvas against which Leone could…
This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey…
A film in which sound, often off-screen, enriches the image, and carries enormous, frequently tragic implications: the tinkling shatter of a glass of white wine seen precipitously perched on an upright piano, the sound of an open palm crossing a young...
From money laundering to influence peddling, casino gambling to dabbling in controversial politics, the life of Serge Alexandre, aka Stavisky, flashes before our eyes and we see the making and unmaking of the theatrically charming con artist who used…
Made as the declining Shaw Brothers Studio entered its twilight years, Lau’s Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, inspired by Song dynasty folklore, has all the radiant beauty of a spectacular sunset, a showcase for all that the Shaw machine, at the height of…
Introduction by Film Comment and special guests on Sunday, August 2nd.
One of Truffaut’s most personal and beautiful films, photographed “in fecund greens and withering yellows” [Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader] by DP Néstor Almendros, and one of the least known of Truffaut’s major works—audiences, it seems, weren’t…
It’s the eve of the Christmas holiday, and polite, young middle-class schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond), tied to a position at a tiny township in the outback, is on his way to Sydney to see his girlfriend by way of a stopoff in the grubby mining burg…
Sixteen years after starring in Yuen Woo-ping’s Drunken Master, the film that cemented its star’s place as the clown prince of martial arts cinema, Jackie Chan returned to the role of bibulous warrior Wong Fei-hung (aka “Freddie Wong”) with Lau in…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
Lau Kar-leung is widely credited as a pioneer in introducing a new conceptual wit to the kung-fu film, and his facility in that regard is amply attested to by this wackadoodle wuxia about the eponymous jewel thief (Wong Yu) who, nursing his wounds after…
Lau Kar-leung is widely credited as a pioneer in introducing a new conceptual wit to the kung-fu film, and his facility in that regard is amply attested to by this wackadoodle wuxia about the eponymous jewel thief (Wong Yu) who, nursing his wounds after…
Catherine Deneuve plays Séverine, a frigid bourgeoisie housewife impeccably turned out in Yves Saint Laurent and bored to tears with her conventional young husband, in Buñuel’s droll, deliciously perverse pillar of arthouse screen eroticism, which…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
With their last high school concert only days away, bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi’s hopes of taking the stage appear to be dashed when their lead singer quits the group, leaving them to hastily recruit a Korean exchange student with a limited grasp…
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
Alongside his more touted multi-character panoramas, Altman also had a fondness for small-scale dramas investigating the complexities of female psychology, and of these none is greater than the ineffable 3 Women, which finds Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek,…
Described by Sganzerla—21 years old when he directed his wild-eyed feature debut—as a “Western about the Third World,” The Red Light Bandit drew inspiration from the exploits of João Acácio Pereira da Costa, a recently arrested career criminal…
Alongside his more touted multi-character panoramas, Altman also had a fondness for small-scale dramas investigating the complexities of female psychology, and of these none is greater than the ineffable 3 Women, which finds Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek,…