A great Hong Kong artist in NYC, director Stanley Kwan at Film Forum with the exquisite CENTER STAGE 📽️ 🇭🇰 🎞️ #film #cinema #movies #NYC #FilmForumNYC #FilmSky #StanleyKwan #HongKongCinema #HongKongFilmmakers

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We were honored to welcome Hong Kong New Wave auteur Stanley Kwan to Film Forum with CENTER STAGE, his luminous biopic of silent film icon Ruan Lingyu, starring Maggie Cheung, now playing in a restored 4K director’s cut. 📸 Brian Nunes 🎟️ buff.ly/urzkyzj

R.I.P. to the eternal icon Tim Curry (1946-2026)💔

Remembering Dolly Parton … www.criterion.com/current/post...

"It's important to me that these works are earnest—not sentimental, but not coming from a place of cynicism." —Jane Schoenbrun. From our summer issue, Grace Byron interviews the director of TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: filmmaker.substack.com/p/jane-schoe...

I reviewed Claire Denis’s latest, THE FENCE. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Did You Know There’s a New Claire Denis Film Out?

Starring Matt Dillon and Isaach de Bankolé, The Fence doesn’t deserve to disappear.

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“As you get older, though, you start to see things again as if for the first time … “ A Criterion top 10 from Kent Jones — www.criterion.com/current/top-...

This beautiful indie by Charles Burnett deserves to be seen by a LOT more people. A perfect opportunity to check it out if you haven’t seen it to this point 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #cinema #film #movies #CharlesBurnett #FilmSky #MyBrothersWedding #AmericanAuteurs #AfricanAmericanCinema #BlackFilm #AmericanIndieCinema

IndieWire@indiewire.com · 2w ago

Exclusive: The lauded filmmaker's second film gets new life, thanks to a 4K restoration and a fresh edit from Burnett himself.

Shirley MacLaine & Billy Wilder on the set of The Apartment 📷 Grey Villet, 1960

🎞️ #FoundFilmFriday: My New Gun (1992) Missing Movies Org is spotlighting Stacy Cochran’s deadpan 35mm satire! We're hosting a 35mm double feature with @filmlinc.bsky.social on Aug 31, featuring My New Gun (9 PM) & a live panel on lost film preservation. 🎟️ https://ow.ly/ZYQ850ZwIgL

A sharp, hard-edged 35mm adaptation of Jim Thompson's pulp novel set in a New Jersey seaside town. See it in 35mm at @filmlinc.bsky.social on Aug 31 at 6 PM, followed by a live panel with Greenwald! 🎟️ https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-kill-off-my-new-gun/ #MissingMovies #FilmPreservation #35mm

CHARLOTTE WELLS IS ALIVE AND HAS A NEW SHORT AT NYFF

🩸 👻 💀 Get ready to have your blood run cold: Scary Movies XIV, New York City’s premium showcase for the best in boundary-pushing horror and genre-bending cinema, officially begins tomorrow! View the screening schedule below and secure 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/scary This series is sponsored by Mubi.

From September 5-6, Chinese Artists on the Edge is a five-film series that reveals the fertile exchange between contemporary art and Chinese cinema from the late 1980s through the turn of the twenty-first century. Guest curated by Sam C. Mac. https://asiasociety.org/new-york/chinese-artists-edge

Chinese Artists on the Edge

Chinese Artists on the Edge brings together five landmark films that reveal the fertile exchange between contemporary art and Chinese cinema from the late 1980s through the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Kyoko Kagawa Rarities begins TOMORROW at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social and continues this weekend at Asia Society! Tickets and showtimes: asiasociety.org/new-york/kyo...

Kyoko Kagawa Rarities

Asia Society presents Kyoko Kagawa Rarities, a series of five remarkable films starring the beloved Japanese actress, in partnership with Anthology Film Archives, from August 13-16, 2026.

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A true masterpiece, Edward Yang’s A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY [Taiwan/1991] will be screening in Los Angeles later this month. 📽️ 🇹🇼 🎞️ #EdwardYang #TaiwaneseCinema #InternationalCinema #movies #film #cinema #CrimeMovies #FilmSky #AmericanCinematheque #LASky

American Cinematheque@amcinematheque.bsky.social · 3w ago

Upcoming Transcendental Appointment’ – Edward Yang’s A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991) ☀️ Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. Coming to the Aero on Sun. 8/23 at 1 pm. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

Kleber Mendonça Filho to world premiere new short featuring Jafar Panahi at the 64th New York Film Festival (NYFF), September 25—October 12 at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City

Kleber Mendonça Filho to World Premiere New Short Featuring Jafar Panahi at the New York Film Festival — Cinema Tropical

Academy Award-nominated Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho will have the world premiere of his latest short, South of Tehran , at the 64th New York Film Festival (NYFF), taking place September ...

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New today on the site! “Blimps and Pimpernels: Powell & Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness” - Robert Wilton

Powell and Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness

Over the two decades of their collaboration, the films of Powell and Pressburger emerged as the working out of a love affair with Britain and Britishness.

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Rob Tregenza's new film, Fast, a thrillingly virtuosic drama of a young woman who becomes an auto racer, exalts small-town settings but confronts oppressive memories and mindsets; it opens Wed., Aug. 12 at @moma.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film?

Rob Tregenza’s new film, “Fast”—96 minutes of cinema made in rural Virginia with no more than a few dozen long takes and a small batch of main characters—dazzles the mind and delights the eye, Richard...

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JOSEPHINE is excellent. www.vulture.com/article/jose...

How Do You Talk About a Movie Like Josephine?

Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, and a startling young newcomer give us one of Sundance’s most disturbing films.

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As Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s elegant period drama The Samurai and the Prisoner arrives in theaters, the legendary Japanese filmmaker tells Zachary Lee about turning a feudal mystery into an engimatic study of power and belief. Read more: https://boxd.it/3iU

Great that Stanley Kwan's grand, intimate, intricate, historically rich musical docu-biopic Center Stage is back, in a new restoration, at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social (and he'll be there for a Q. & A. tonight at 6:30pm): www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...

Center Stage

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“Magnificent Melodramas: Douglas Sirk & Russell Metty” is on @amcinematheque.bsky.social through September 19 ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

I miss reading Kent Jones, but of course, I'm also thrilled to be able to see his films.

Geraldine and her father Charlie Chaplin :)

Audrey Hepburn & Billy Wilder on the set of Sabrina 📷 Dennis Stock, 1954 "There was something very likable about her. You trusted her, this tiny person. When she stood before the cameras, she became Miss Audrey Hepburn."

Mills on his Roy Andersson-inspired next film, music videos as the ideal training ground, his conceptual art background, and documentary sensibilities.

Becoming Mike Mills: Inside the Two Decades and Unexpected Path Leading to ‘Beginners’

Mills on his Roy Andersson-inspired next film, music videos as the ideal training ground, his conceptual art background, and documentary sensibilities.

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Distractedly neglected to put up word about A Woman Under the Influence, playing now on @tcmtv.bsky.social, and some kind of ultimate vision of what people do to each other in the name of love, what kind of torment is unleashed in the tangles of family bonds: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

Seeing John Cassavetes

Richard Brody on John Cassavetes's "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974).

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