Few actors bring as much intensity or intelligence to the screen as Jodie Foster, a veteran who has spent nearly her entire life in front of the camera. Already a formidable screen presence at just twelve years old when she delivered her indelible breakthrough performance in TAXI DRIVER, she subs...

Suspicion hung in the air like stale smoke throughout the 1970s. In the shadow of Watergate, the Vietnam War, and the public’s unraveling faith in its institutions, American filmmakers crafted taut, paranoid narratives that echoed the disillusioned national mood. This collection brings together s...

Delve into shadowy cloisters with an unholy congregation of films that scramble the sacred and the profane through lurid tales of nuns gone wild. From the fevered blasphemy of Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS and the delirious hysteria of ALUCARDA to the surrealist sacrilege of Pedro Almodóvar’s DARK HAB...

Born one hundred years ago, Robert Altman made movies that play like the cinematic equivalent of jazz—elastic, improvisational, and thrillingly alive to chance and happenstance. A master of the ensemble epic whose maverick sensibility stood out even in the auteur-driven New Hollywood era, Altman ...

Steeped in the pervasive sense of distrust that rippled through American society in the 1970s, Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy—KLUTE, THE PARALLAX VIEW, and ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN—stands as a masterclass in cinematic unease. Featuring career-defining performances from Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty...

Celebrate the release of the latest much-anticipated opus by Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, by revisiting two of the touchstone works that established him as one of contemporary American cinema’s most revered auteurs. With a virtuoso ensemble cast that includes Tom Cruise, Philip...

Tantalizingly surreal, dreamily erotic, and wickedly subversive, the films of Polish provocateur Walerian Borowczyk are symbol-laden existential reveries rendered in painterly soft focus. Made in the midst of his most notorious period, the grief-suffused psychosexual drama LA MARGE and the blasph...

Built around her ineffably plaintive voice, the music of ANOHNI speaks to the soul like no other, entwining aching human emotion with a cutting political edge. Curated by ANOHNI herself, this selection of music videos—presented alongside TURNING, a performance-art concert film by Charles Atlas an...

One of the most exciting emerging voices in African cinema, Congolese French filmmaker Alain Kassanda makes immersive, thought-provoking documentaries that connect the lived experiences of everyday people to larger social and political questions. Turning his observant camera on both his grandpare...

A one-of-a-kind performer, choreographer, and director, Hong Kong superstar Sammo Hung reinvented action cinema as a space of exuberant physicality and unexpected grace. Trained at the same Beijing-opera academy as Jackie Chan (with whom he costarred in films like MY LUCKY STARS), Hung deployed t...

In the 1990s, underground music—from punk and hip-hop to indie rock and electronica—exploded into the pop-culture consciousness through some of the defining films of the era. Movies like PUMP UP THE VOLUME didn’t just capture the social and aesthetic codes of disaffected Gen Xers; they also deliv...

Few filmmakers navigate the libidinal and the lyrical quite like Spanish sensualist Bigas Luna, a provocateur with a painter’s eye, whose films are lush with eroticism, surrealist flourishes, delirium, and grotesquery. His films—including the Iberian Trilogy comprising the international sensation...

“What I mean by realism goes beyond reality,” declared French master Maurice Pialat, whose at once raw and rigorous films capture all the intensity, vivid humanity, brutality, and tenderness of life itself. Born one hundred years ago this August, Pialat was a contemporary of the nouvelle vague, b...

Tackling some of the most urgent questions of our time with a formidable formal and intellectual sophistication, the richly observed documentaries of Brett Story invite us to see, with fresh eyes, the social and political structures that shape our lives. In THE HOTTEST AUGUST, interviews with a w...

With the passing of Michael Roemer earlier this year, American cinema lost one of its most eloquent voices, a long-unsung independent trailblazer whose profoundly humanist, unfailingly truthful vision had only in recent years come to be properly appreciated. A Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi Germ...

The best films about artists don’t just document their lives and practices, but are themselves acts of artistic interpretation. Eschewing conventional biography in favor of formal experimentation, these boldly conceived works mirror the creativity of their subjects through the language of film. U...

Temperatures and passions sizzle in these scorching summertime tales of desire—the sultry cinematic equivalents of a perfect beach read. Built around the electric chemistry of gorgeous golden-age Hollywood stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift (A PLACE IN THE SUN), Audrey Hepburn and G...

This July 15th marks the 100th birthday of documentary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, who forever changed the way we see the world. He helped pioneer the sync-sound camera rig, allowing his camera to move freely, bringing audiences into the heart of the moments that shaped a century. One of the trai...

From Shakespeare to SUCCESSION, Scottish actor Brian Cox has carved out a distinguished, six-decade-plus career on both stage and screen, along the way winning two Olivier Awards, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe. In this edition of the Craft of Acting, Cox sits down with writer Issac Butler ("The Met...

With their hypnotic long takes and elliptical narrative structures, the dreamily enveloping films of Taiwanese cinema titan Hou Hsiao-hsien seem to reshape the rules of time, drifting languorously through the ever-changing sociopolitical realities of Taiwan past and present. Beginning his career ...

Born 100 years ago this July in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation. His radical assertion of anticolonial consciousness and call to resistance can be felt in landmark cinematic bombshells b...

One of the essential but long-neglected voices of the French New Wave, Jacques Rozier was a comedic master whose small yet rich body of work remains ripe for rediscovery. Starting with his feature debut, ADIEU PHILIPPINE, Rozier was determined to explode conventional story forms, combine seemingl...

A playfully subversive trailblazer of African cinema, Niger-born Moustapha Alassane created a charmingly lo-fi, irreverently imaginative world all his own. Featuring cartoon frogs, Wild West–style African cowboys, stop-motion puppets, and folkloric heroes, his often witty, iconoclastic fables tak...

Chilling, unblinking confrontations with the void of modern existence, the films of Michael Haneke dare viewers to reckon with the links between media, violence, capitalism, and inequality in an increasingly sterile, alienated world. With his first three theatrical features—THE SEVENTH CONTINENT,...