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Long overshadowed by Michelangelo Antonioni's later work, this feature, newly restored, is being revived at Film Forum, complete with once-censored scenes. Michelangelo Antonioni confounded the 1960 Cannes Film Festival with [...]

Long overshadowed by Michelangelo Antonioni’s later work, this feature, newly restored, is being revived at Film Forum, complete with once-censored scenes. Michelangelo Antonioni confounded the 1960 Cannes Film Festival with [...]

Broken by failure, the knights don their creaking armor and take aim at one another, as a desolate Lancelot tries to sever his bonds with Guinevere. Although he nursed the [...]

Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1982 film, based on Jean Genet's novel, about a young sailor's criminal and erotic escapades. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final film, ''Querelle,'' released [...]

Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film, based on Jean Genet’s novel, about a young sailor’s criminal and erotic escapades. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevHcSCIjGY,” released [...]

The French filmmaker's confident third feature has been largely overlooked. Thankfully, a newly restored version is getting its first New York run since 1992. Most celebrated for 'Beau Travail,' her […]

Akira Kurosawa's epic has always been known for its action-film artistry, but there is emotional heft and nuance as well. Few movies have been more influential than 'Seven Samurai,' an […]

Akira Kurosawa’s epic has always been known for its action-film artistry, but there is emotional heft and nuance as well. Few movies have been more influential than https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XMJY0hYJEw an existential [...]

Byline: J. Hoberman Hailed as a shocker when it opened in 1947, Vittorio De Sica's movie about juvenile delinquency gets an extended run at Film Forum in a new 4K [...]

Hailed as a shocker when it opened in 1947, Vittorio De Sica's movie about juvenile delinquency gets an extended run at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration. Made in [...]

Newly restored, Horace Ové's film about a Trinidadian family in London makes a triumphant return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The title ''Pressure'' suggests the force with which this [...]

Newly restored, Horace Ové’s film about a Trinidadian family in London makes a triumphant return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6n8055O878 suggests the force with which this [...]

Newly excavated and restored, Peter Kass's 1961 movie, full of trippy distortions and grim associations, gets its first New York run at Film at Lincoln Center. Peter Kass's ''Time of [...]

Newly excavated and restored, Peter Kass’s 1961 movie, full of trippy distortions and grim associations, gets its first New York run at Film at Lincoln Center. Peter Kass’s “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9W5OjQK_4c” is [...]

Restored to its original length and screening at the Museum of Modern Art, this 1933 movie starring Spencer Tracy feels at once surprisingly frank and disquietingly coy. A celebrant of [...]

Restored to its original length and screening at the Museum of Modern Art, this 1933 movie starring Spencer Tracy feels at once surprisingly frank and disquietingly coy. A celebrant of [...]

Claude Sautet's 1960 existential buddy adventure opens Friday at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration. ''Film noir'' is a French coinage but France's homegrown crime movies, a staple of [...]

Claude Sautet’s 1960 existential buddy adventure opens Friday at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration. “Film noir” is a French coinage but France’s homegrown crime movies, a staple of [...]

The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (''I Am Not Your Negro''), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted. ''If the prophet dies, [...]

Anthology Film Archives is screening a new 4K restoration of Martha Coolidge's 1976 docudrama about date rape. Made nearly half a century ago and long hiding in plain sight, Martha [...]

Anthology Film Archives is screening a new 4K restoration of Martha Coolidge’s 1976 docudrama about date rape. Made nearly half a century ago and long hiding in plain sight, Martha [...]

Nancy Savoca's 1993 film, a mystical, multigenerational Italian American family saga, opens for a revival run at IFC Center. Nancy Savoca's 1993 film ''Household Saints,'' a warmhearted fable spiced with [...]

Nancy Savoca’s 1993 film, a mystical, multigenerational Italian American family saga, opens for a revival run at IFC Center. Nancy Savoca’s 1993 film “https://www.ifccenter.com/films/household-saints/,” a warmhearted fable spiced with magic [...]

Jean-Luc Godard's hard-boiled sci-fi movie from 1965 returns in a restored version at IFC Center. Cinephiles of a certain age have a Jean-Luc Godard film that when first seen, blew [...]

Jean-Luc Godard’s hard-boiled sci-fi movie from 1965 returns in a restored version at IFC Center. Cinephiles of a certain age have a Jean-Luc Godard film that when first seen, blew [...]

Glauber Rocha's allegorical epic unfolds in a desolate, arid region of Brazil known for its rebellions, outlaws and self-anointed saints. Replete with religious cults, righteous outlaws, starving peasants and the [...]

Glauber Rocha’s allegorical epic unfolds in a desolate, arid region of Brazil known for its rebellions, outlaws and self-anointed saints. Replete with religious cults, righteous outlaws, starving peasants and the [...]

A newly restored print of Isaac Julien's 1991 politically minded musical drama opens Oct. 20 at the IFC Center. Few movies were more freighted with expectation than Isaac Julien's ''Young [...]

A newly restored print of Isaac Julien’s 1991 politically minded musical drama opens Oct. 20 at the IFC Center. Few movies were more freighted with expectation than Isaac Julien’s “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48N4TBsBdQ” [...]

Stanley Kubrick's called his first feature, which is getting a new run at Metrograph, ''boring and pretentious.'' Instead, it is a revelation. Seen in retrospect, a first feature by a [...]

Stanley Kubrick’s called his first feature, which is getting a new run at Metrograph, “boring and pretentious.” Instead, it is a revelation. Seen in retrospect, a first feature by a [...]

Patricio Guzmán's stunning three-part documentary is at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a week, newly restored 50 years after the 1973 military coup. ''The Battle of Chile,'' Patricio Guzmán's [...]

Patricio Guzmán’s stunning three-part documentary is at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a week, newly restored 50 years after the 1973 military coup. “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcnyCOPhdMY,” Patricio Guzmán’s 264-minute account of [...]

Jean Eustache's digitally restored 1973 film, now at Lincoln Center, is part of a full retrospective of his work. Jean Eustache's unwieldy first feature ''The Mother and the Whore'' -- [...]

Jean Eustache’s digitally restored 1973 film, now at Lincoln Center, is part of a full retrospective of his work. Jean Eustache’s unwieldy first feature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGjs5HJ09UY — a transfixing 215-minute talkathon, [...]

Liza Béar's deadpan anti-thriller returns to the Museum of Modern Art for a limited engagement. A young Moroccan woman slips into Washington, D.C., hoping to provide a journalist with intel [...]

Liza Béar’s deadpan anti-thriller returns to the Museum of Modern Art for a limited engagement. A young Moroccan woman slips into Washington, D.C., hoping to provide a journalist with intel [...]

Lucian Pintilie's newly restored mad farce, now at Film Forum, paved the way for the Romanian new wave. Playing the last days of Romanian communism as frenzied farce, Lucian Pintilie's [...]

Jeanne Moreau's first film as a director is showing for a week at Film Forum, newly restored and seven minutes longer than its 1976 U.S. release. Movies directed by their [...]

Jeanne Moreau’s first film as a director is showing for a week at Film Forum, newly restored and seven minutes longer than its 1976 U.S. release. Movies directed by their [...]

Newly restored, Claire Denis's quasi-autobiographical ''Chocolat,'' a child's-eye view of French colonialism, is austere yet vivid. A young white woman revisits Cameroon and remembers an idyllic childhood in a French [...]

He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often contentious) films like ''Wavelength.'' Michael Snow, a Canadian painter, jazz [...]

In its unflinching depiction of a French teenager's violent gay awakening, this 1983 film is among Patrice Chéreau's most confrontational works. The radical director Patrice Chéreau was a triple-threat who [...]

A 4K restoration of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's thrumming, visually bold movie about a self-destructive club girl retains its capital-L look. Sordid yet transcendent, bathed in neon haze and set to a [...]

She took home, to Ohio, a 2019 Oscar for ''American Factory,'' and in a long career teaching and making films, she paid special attention to working women. Julia Reichert, a [...]

The artist's scurrilously satirical treatment of male prostitution proved an underground hit after it premiered in 1966. Set in and around a beach house on Fire Island, N.Y., ''My Hustler'' [...]

Amir Naderi's scrappy, intimate film, which follows an 11-year-old garbage scavenger in Iran, is getting a second viewing at Film Forum in Manhattan. ''The Runner,'' Amir Naderi's stylized memoir of [...]

In 1959, François Truffaut premiered his first film, about a Parisian boy playing hooky, and moviemaking hasn't been the same since. One of the most impressive debuts in film history, [...]

Nothing controversial: Adolfas Mekas's ''Hallelujah the Hills,'' from 1963, is romantic slapstick, with two guys competing for the same young woman. The early 1960s was the golden age of underground [...]

''One Way or Another,'' from 1974, is a class-conscious love story involving a macho worker and a well-to-do schoolteacher in Cuba. Dialectical from opening title to final image, ''One Way [...]