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Not unlike Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados, Carlos Saura’s debut feature, Los Golfos, is neorealism at its most confrontational and unsentimental, capturing the decline of a society not through the crushing of an innocent naif but through a generation forged by the very rot that continues to eat it. Shot around Madrid, Los Golfos ran afoul of Franco’s censors for its unvarnished look at the seediest corners of Spain’s capital, and not even mandated edits could diminish the potency of Saura’s vision.

The film follows a gang of young misfits who rob and cheat to get by, their petty crimes barely keeping them fed but instilling in them a false bravado,...

Él, directed by Luis Buñuel, arrives on 4K Blu-ray from Criterion November 18, 2025. The film — a 1953 nominee for the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival — follows an aristocrat (Arturo de Córdova) with a suave exterior who turns into a paranoid and violently jealous man after marrying the beautiful young Gloria (Delia Garcés). The release features a New 4K restoration supervised by photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, director of photography Gabriel Figueroa’s son and presents the film with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack and a new English subtitle translation. Bonus features include a new video essay on director Luis Buñuel by scholar Jordi Xifra, an appreciation by Guillermo del Toro and archival...

The Criterion Collection announced a diverse November lineup on 4K Uhd and Blu-ray, including restorations of John Hughes’ teen drama “The Breakfast Club,” Reginald Hudlin’s hip-hop comedy “House Party” and Stanley Kubrick’s final film “Eyes Wide Shut.” The slate also features Werner Herzog’s making-of documentary “Burden of Dreams,” Luis Buñuel’s Mexican melodrama “Él,” Howard Hughes’ aviation epic “Hell’s Angels” and a major Eclipse box set dedicated to Abbas Kiarostami’s early work.

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Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club” (1985) defined a generation of high school films with its mix of angst, comedy and unlikely camaraderie among five students in Saturday detention. The new edition features a 4K restoration, cast interviews with Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, commentary from Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson, and nearly an hour of deleted and extended scenes.

Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut,” starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, receives...

Has it become a bit clichéd and too-smart-for-your-own-good to say Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie? Of course. Is Eyes Wide Shut not only a Christmas movie, but one that weaves the holiday’s atmosphere, spirit, and symbolism into an already-complex emotional fabric? Let’s just say the Criterion Collection isn’t releasing it right around Thanksgiving for nothing. Surely taking inspiration from our programming it last year, they’re giving Stanley Kubrick’s final film a 4K treatment that will surely allow the soft Christmas lights, deep-red cloaks, and blacks of Tom Cruise’s hair more room to breathe.

Luis Buñuel’s early triumph Él, Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels, and Reginald Hudlin’s House Party are also arriving on 4K, while Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams and John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club receive upgrades. November’s most essential release, however, is the return of Eclipse: a 17-film Abbas Kiarostami Blu-ray set.

It’s no secret that Quentin Tarantino has a thing for feet. Although the director has never called it a feet fetish, he did tell GQ that it is an artistic choice that has been done before by Alfred Hitchcock, Sofia Coppola, and Luis Buñuel.

Call it artistic choice or foot fetish masked in odd camera angles, what we do know is that there are a ton of feet shots in almost every Tarantino movie. From Pulp Fiction to Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. If it’s a Tarantino movie, there are bound to be several close-ups of toes and feet.

Naturally, we decided to rank every Quentin Tarantino feet fetish scene from bizarre to best (including that scene from From Dusk Till Dawn).

7. The Gory Accident in Death Proof Kurt Russell in a still from Death Proof | Credits: Troublemaker Studios

We don’t know how or why Kurt Russell agreed to do that.

Gregg Araki is ready to bring “Mysterious Skin” into the 2020s: The writer/director will unveil the 4K restoration of the acclaimed 2004 indie at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on September 19 as part of the museum’s overall fall programming slate. Araki will participate in an onstage conversation after the screening with lead star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and novelist Scott Heim, who wrote the source material; Sean Baker will moderate. The 4K presentation comes courtesy of Strand Releasing and will tour theaters next year.

Set in the 1980s and ’90s, the coming-of-age drama stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a pre-director-days Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Elisabeth Shue. It follows the lives of Gordon-Levitt and Corbet as childhood friends who were both sexually abused, and how that abuse shapes and distorts their journeys into young adulthood; Corbet’s character disappears into an alien-abduction fantasy, while Gordon-Levitt’s becomes a street hustler in New...

It’s about time that M. Night Shyamalan is hailed as one of cinema’s most influential voices, and now, thanks to Film at Lincoln Center, the iconic auteur’s most classic films will be presented in conversation with the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Rob Reiner, Jordan Peele, Luis Buñuel, Sidney Lumet, and more.

IndieWire can announce that double feature festival “Night at the Movies: An M. Night Shyamalan Retrospective” will take place at Film at Lincoln Center from August 22 to September 4. The two-week series will celebrate 12 Shyamalan features presented in 2-for-1 double bills with films of his own choosing. The pairings span cult horror to studio thrillers, with many films screened on 35mm. Shyamalan will be in person for Q&As following select screenings.

“For many in my generation, ‘The Sixth Sense’ wasn’t just our introduction to the name M. Night Shyamalan, it was...

Japanese chirashi for La chimera. Designer unknown.Totting up the most-liked posters on my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram over the first six months of 2025, the surprise winner, with over 4,000 likes on one day, was a Japanese chirashi for Alice Rohrwacher's La chimera (2023). I put its popularity down to the Josh O’Connor fan base, or for the film itself, though it is a lovely, colorful design. The second and third places, with over a couple thousand likes each, went to two designs that I posted in tribute to David Lynch upon his passing in January: the original poster for Eraserhead (1977) and a beautiful Japanese poster for The Straight Story (1999). There are actually three Japanese posters in the top four, number three being a zippy design for Charade (1963), which I posted in April in celebration of what would have been its director Stanley Donen’s 101st birthday. And the one-sheet...

Italy is celebrating scoring a rare double whammy in the selection for the Hollywood Walk of Fame class of 2026 list.

Along with Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, and Miley Cyrus, the 35-name list – announced by The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday – includes both Spaghetti Westerns icon Franco Nero and special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi who is best known for creating the iconic E.T. character for Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”

Italian undersecretary for culture Lucia Borgonzoni in a statement underlined Italy’s pride in the rare double honors for non U.S. talents and thanked marketing guru Tiziana Rocca, who is artistic director of Italy’s Taormina and Filming Italy festivals, for mounting the campaign that led to Nero getting a Hollywood star.

Nero, who gained worldwide fame in Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 classic Spaghetti Western “Django,” has since appeared in over 200 movies and TV shows, working with directors such as John Huston,...

It's been more than 40 years since Rob Reiner debuted in cinema with the rock mockumentary comedy This is Spinal Tap. The original film focused on a famous rock band's meltdown after rising to fame, as told from the perspective of its over-the-top and hilarious members. After decades of fans pleading for a sequel, Reiner has decided to reunite Spinal Tap. Enough time has passed for new anecdotes to be included in the mockumentary sequel. However, the director has revealed that he was inspired to make it after witnessing another major cultural phenomenon: the resurgence of singer Kate Bush after her best song was heavily featured in the Netflix series Stranger Things.

As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Reiner talked about getting the band back together years after the last time they were on stage together. Reiner is known for being an opponent to sequels: "Over the years, people kept saying, 'You should do a sequel.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.News Bedknobs and Broomsticks.The military parade US president Donald Trump held on his own birthday was a boon for beleaguered Hollywood prop houses, many of which received a much-needed injection of capital by fulfilling rental orders for vintage guns and period costumes. “I’m no fan of Trump, hate him in fact, but this was a real life raft for us,” said one prop house manager.Since 2021, Nielsen has been tracking US viewership of traditional television as compared to streamers. In the month of May, Americans watched more television via streaming services than linear cable or broadcast for the first time.Related: In the first quarter of 2025, for the first time ever, more people in the United...

Fireworks, opera arias, dancers, a show-stopping turn from UK singer Emeli Sandé, smutty jokes from emcee David Walliams, and a rabble-rousing speech from Gladiator star Russell Crowe were among the highlights of a lavish and somewhat protracted closing ceremony of the third edition of the Mediterrane Film Festival (June 21-29).

At the event, which took place on the island of Fort Manoel, the filmmakers themselves were inevitably eclipsed by the performers and presenters.

Nonetheless, the festival itself, which had opened last weekend with an open-air screening of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, boasted strong attendances and a diverse range of films.

El director Luis Buñuel con una cámara de cine | Getty Images París 1929. El año de las piedras.

Siempre me ha parecido mejor la idea de incendiar un museo que la de abrir un centro cultural o fundar un hospital. – Luis Buñuel, Mi último suspiro.

En la historia del arte, muchos de sus estandartes han labrado en mármol experiencias que se sustentan en arenas movedizas. En Mi último suspiro, memorias del genio calandino redactadas en colaboración con el guionista francés y amigo personal Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel narra cómo acudió a la proyección de su primer cortometraje, Un perro andaluz, con los bolsillos cargados de piedras.

Luis Buñuel (izquierda) y Jean-Claude Carrière (derecha) | MoMA

Aquel junio de 1929, se reunieron en torno al cinematógrafo de los parisinos Studio Des Ursulines algunos de los intelectuales más ilustres de París, entre los que estaban Pablo Picasso y varios miembros del incipiente movimiento surrealista, con...

Every Wes Anderson film is a new adventure for production designer Adam Stockhausen, who has collaborated with the director seven times, and won the Oscar for his work on “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” However, “The Phoenician Scheme” — a 1950s Byzantine espionage fable, inspired by the ancient Middle Eastern civilization — might be the most exotic yet.

The film stars Benicio del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda, a larger-than-life European industrialist who survives several assassination attempts while trying to carry out the titular land project of epic proportions. Korda is inspired by Armenian oil baron Calouste Gulbenkian and Lebanese businessman Fouad Malouf, who is Anderson’s father-in-law. At its core, though, “The Phoenician Scheme” is a tender father-daughter story, with Mia Threapleton portraying Zsa-Zsa’s estranged Liesl, who happens to be a nun.

“I love the story and was immediately excited about the scope and journey Zsa-Zsa takes us on,” Stockhausen told IndieWire.

We might think we know what we're going to get out of any given Wes Anderson production, more or less, but that doesn't mean we've seen everything the innovative director has to offer. "The Phoenician Scheme" marks the auteur's thirteenth total film (counting the collection of shorts that make up 2023's "The Wonderful Life of Henry Sugar"), meaning we've had almost three full decades to try and put Anderson in a box. His latest, as /Film's Bill Bria reviewed for us here, almost seems preoccupied with putting that theory to the test -- largely through the motley crew of characters at its center.

"The Phoenician Scheme" follows wealthy industrialist Zsa-zsa Korda (played by Anderson regular Benicio del Toro) as he attempts to juggle several things at once: dodging one assassination attempt after another, concocting a desperate gambit to defeat his business rivals bent on his destruction, and reconnecting with his estranged daughter,...

Like Jacques Tati, Woody Allen and Luis Buñuel, there can be no mistaking a movie directed and written by Wes Anderson. An auteur in the truest sense of the word, he is as much a painter with words and visuals that put us unquestionably into part of a brain that sees the world the way he wants to see it. There’s his Oscar-winning masterpiece The Grand Budapest Hotel; animated gems Isle of Dogs and my favorite Wes movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox; and a string of beloved film comedies including The Royal Tannenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom and so many more including his 2024 Oscar-winning short The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. It is good to report that the filmmaker is back in style with his latest, The Phoenician Scheme, after stumbling a bit through the overly narrated and artificial (even for Anderson) Asteroid City, the most recent of his films to debut in Cannes,...

From Jean Seberg’s sideswept pixie cut to Jean-Paul Belmondo’s aviators, Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” has become more fashionable in today’s cultural imagination for its iconic looks and images than for how the jump-cut-pioneering renegade feature collapsed cinematic hierarchies as we knew them in 1960. That makes one of the greatest films of all time, and the standard bearer of the French New Wave, ripe for discovery for a younger generation — and fresher still for the older ones well familiar with it.

If the best way to criticize a movie, as Cahiers du Cinéma critic Godard once said, is to make one, then director Richard Linklater’s answer to making a tribute to “Breathless” might instead be to not quite criticize but certainly to subvert the tropes of movies about moviemaking. His black-and-white “Nouvelle Vague,” itself a meticulous recreation of a movie made in 1959 with all the celluloid, Academy-ratio crackle and pop,...

Steven Sondheim was so revered that his colleagues anointed with the nickname “God”. Is it sacrilege to criticise him? Here We Are remained in the drafting stage before Sondheim’s death in 2021. So perhaps it’s unfair to point a critical finger solely at him. A musical synthesis of two films by Spanish Surrealist Luis Buñuel, the first act invokes The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie with the second echoing The Exterminating Angel, it’s posthumous premiere in New York was met with some lukewarm reviews in 2023. Will it make more of a splash across the pond? A flamboyant coterie of ultra wealthy airheads hunt for a brunch spot. They are thwarted by increasingly surreal shenanigans. The aptly named ‘Café Everything’ has...

The National Theatre has released all new photos from the UK premiere of Here We Are, the final musical by the legendary Stephen Sondheim. Check out the photos below! Inspired by two of Luis Buñuel’s iconic films, Here We Are has a book by Tony Award-nominee David Ives (All in the Timing/Venus in Fur) and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello (Wicked /Assassins). The UK premiere of Here We Are runs in the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theatre until 28 June 2025. Full cast includes Edward Baker-Duly (Enselmble + Understudy Leo Brink + Man), Tracie Bennett (Woman), Alastair Brookshaw (Ensemble + Understudy Bishop + Paul Zimmer), Jack Butterworth (A Visitor + Ensemble + Understudy Soldier), Chumisa Dornford-May (Fritz), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Paul Zimmer), Richard Fleeshman (Soldier), Harry Hadden-Paton (Bishop), Cameron Johnson (Colonel), Rory Kinnear (Leo Brink), Jane Krakowski (Marianne Brink), Molly Lynch (Ensemble + Understudy Marianne Brink + Fritz), Amira Matthews (Ensemble + Understudy Claudia Bursik-Zimmer...

The zoologist, now aged 97, is about to unveil Time Flower, his fantasy-fuelled film in which he pursues a woman called Ramona – who gave such a brave performance leaping off the bonnet of a car that he proposed to her

In the opening scene of Time Flower, a surrealist film by the zoologist Desmond Morris, a woman is lying facedown on the ground, clutching the grass with manicured hands and shaking her head. She is about to start running across a Wiltshire moor in elegant black heels, chased by Morris in a shirt and tie, her eyes wide, her lipstick dark, the angle of the shot emphasising her perfect, parted, panting mouth. Just before she trips and falls, a wild rabbit will stare straight at the camera – and flee.

This 10-minute black-and-white film, which Morris made in 1950 while he was a 22-year-old student at Birmingham University, has lain untouched in his archive for nearly 75 years.

The National Theatre has shared a look inside their recent sitzprobe for Here We Are, featuring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jane Krakowski, Chumisa Dornford-May, Richard Fleeshman, Harry Hadden-Paton, Cameron Johnson, Martha Plimpton, and Paulo Szot. The Joe Mantello-directed production will be playing in the Lyttelton Theatre from April 23. After receiving its world premiere and a sold-out run in New York in 2023, this unmissable musical comedy will receive a new production in the Lyttelton theatre. Inspired by two of Luis Buñuel's iconic films, Here We Are is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello (Wicked /Assassins). <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJRTCHoS9rs/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#Fff; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px...

Iconic Italian star Monica Vitti is a stateside tribute with the posthumous festival “Monica Vitti: La Modernista,” presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà. The actress, who died in 2022, was immortalized onscreen with her famed collaborations with auteurs Michelangelo Antonioni and Luis Buñuel. Now, the 14-film series at Flc will be the first North American retrospective dedicated to Vitti’s career. The series will feature new restorations of her classic films including “Red Desert” and “La supertestimone.”

“We are pleased to partner with Cinecittà to celebrate one of Italy’s most revered actresses,” Florence Almozini, Vice President of Programming at Film at Lincoln Center, said in a press statement. “It is a privilege to have the opportunity to present decades worth of films from Monica Vitti’s illustrious and prolific career, especially with many restored versions of her legendary work.”

Vitti most famously starred in Antonioni’s “L’avventura,” which...

“Drowning By Numbers” (1988) is the kind of movie that dares you to look away, yet it is impossible. Every frame pulls you in, teeming with an intense visual wit and a playful morbidity that lingers long after the credits roll. This is another film that once I start watching, I can’t turn it off. Directed by Peter Greenaway, a filmmaker known for his baroque sensibilities, this movie is arguably one of his most accessible works. “Drowning By Numbers” is a cerebral puzzle with a lot of emotional depth, and if you’ve never seen a Greenaway film before, this is the perfect place to start. This was the first Greenaway film that I watched, and I was hooked ever since.

I’m a longtime fan of Peter Greenaway. His films have a way of making you feel like you’re really in his world, as if you’re watching...

Willem Dafoe has signed on to star in “The Souffleur,” an English-language dark comedy directed by rising Argentinian director Gastón Solnicki. Magnify has boarded worldwide sales (excluding Austria) ahead of the Cannes Film Market. Variety has been given exclusive access to a first-look image for the film (below), which is currently in post-production.

“The Souffleur” sees Dafoe playing the tenured hotelier of Vienna’s InterContinental Hotel. Upon learning that his cherished hotel is about to be sold to an Argentine developer who plans to demolish and reconstruct the landmark completely, he wages a personal vendetta against the new owner. “Spiraling into absurd paranoia, his profound unraveling begins to manifest in his surroundings — the hotel pipes become blocked, the clocks go haywire and his trademark soufflés refuse to rise,” reads the synopsis. The movie shot on location in Vienna at the InterContinental Hotel.

Willem Dafoe in “The Souffleur.”

Dafoe stars alongside Solnicki,...

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Dalton Trumbo's antiwar novel "Johnny Got His Gun" was first published in 1938, and it followed the experiences of an American soldier who had been grievously injured in a violent shelling during World War I. The soldier, named Joe Bonham, lost his arms and legs in the explosion, as well as his lips, teeth, tongue, ears, and eyes. He breathes through a tracheotomy tube, strapped to a hospital bed. Joe is locked inside his own body, unable to communicate any of his thoughts. In his injured state — he knows what happened to him — Joe wants nothing more than to take his own life, but is unable to. All he can do is hammer out pleas for euthanasia in Morse Code by dropping his head on his pillow. A lot of the story involves flashbacks to Joe's childhood and teen years leading up to the war.

Looking for a way to stay dry during the rainy month of April? What better place to cozy up than your local repertory cinema. For those based in New York and Los Angeles, the offerings over the next few weeks are some of the best of the year thus far, with multiple series being held on both coasts that put a light on some of cinema’s unsung heroes. Starting in the east, Film at Lincoln Center will be paying homage to UCLA’s L.A. Rebellion movement of the 1970s and ’80s. Revitalizing Black cinema after the market for Blaxploitation began to dwindle, this collective included filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Larry Clark, Zeinabu irene Davis, and many more.

On the west coast, not only will the Eagle at Vidiots be celebrating the late Gene Hackman with showings of two of his films, but American Cinematheque will...

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Bam

My ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective Mirror of Life begins, with numerous restorations making their North American premiere.

Japan Society

One of Ozu’s greatest films, Early Spring, plays on 35mm this Friday.

Roxy Cinema

Eraserhead and An American Tail screen, the latter for free.

Anthology Film Archives

The Rules of the Game and The Flowers of St. Francis play on 35mm in Essential Cinema.

Film Forum

A René Clair retrospective continues, as does Luis Buñuel’s Él and Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman; Betty Boop and Friends screens on Sunday.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; Stop Making Sense, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Sorcerer, and Funny Games (the good one) show late.

Nitehawk Cinema

Hanna and a print of Westward the Women screen early on Saturday and Sunday.

Metrograph

Donnie...

Exclusive: Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights on the restored films of French filmmaker Luc Moullet.

Cinema Guild will mount a touring theatrical retrospective of Moullet’s work starting at Film at Lincoln Center in New York in August. Moullet, one of the last remaining members of the French New Wave, will attend the opening.

The films included in the acquisition are Brigitte and Brigitte, The Smugglers, A Girl is a Gun, Anatomy of a Relationship, Origins of a Meal, The Comedy of Work, and Parpaillon.

Often dubbed the “prince of shoestring cinema,” Moullet was one of the later filmmakers associated with the pioneering generation of French New Wave artists.

At the age of 18, Moullet joined the ranks of Cahiers du Cinéma, where he was the first to champion Hollywood B-directors like Samuel Fuller and Edgar G. Ulmer. Following the footsteps of other Cahiers alums like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut,...

Tom Green's bafflingly stupid and admittedly "disjointed" Freddy Got Fingered is regarded as one of the worst cinematic atrocities ever staged. And despite all the criticism he absorbed, there was one unlikely man who still championed him. The same man who awarded his movie zero stars out of four, Roger Ebert. Full of disgusting scenes pieced together without any semblance of a meaningful or engaging plot, not even fans of The Tom Green Show could wrap their minds around it. The Canadian's mainstream directing career was over as soon as it began.

20-something years following that dismal experience, he revealed a dire but all-too-common story, the "uncut" version fatefully derailed in post-production. Green's movie career never recovered post-2001, the provocateur easing into the goofy uncle of the comedy community in the podcast era. In one such interview, he quietly dropped a bombshell, explaining how his dream movie was...

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Roxy Cinema

Martin Scorsese has programmed Living, Breathing New York, which continues with a 35mm print of Bringing Out the Dead on Friday and Saturday; The Quiet Man plays on 35mm Saturday and Sunday; David Lynch shorts and Lost Highway screen.

Anthology Film Archives

A new restoration of João César Monteiro’s Snow White plays on Saturday; a Rosemary Hochschild retrospective screens.

Film Forum

A René Clair retrospective has begun; Luis Buñuel’s Él continues screening in a 4K restoration alongside Play It As It Lays and Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman; Modern Times screens on Sunday.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; Stop Making Sense, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Best in Show, Palindromes, and Pink Flamingos show late.

Bam

Heiny Srour’s Leila and the Wolves continues.

Nitehawk Cinema

Paper Moon...

Between 1964 and 1981, Oldřich Lipský and Jiří Brdečka collaborated on a loose trilogy of films, each of which paid loving, yet subversive, homage to a strain of pop culture that would’ve been seen as hopelessly disreputable by the Communist authorities in the former Czechoslovakia. Lemonade Joe is a tribute to the John Ford western, while Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet tinkers with the conventions of the private eye film. And Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians delivers a hilarious and surreal steampunk riff on a lesser known Jules Verne novel, in which the French writer filters the trappings of gothic fiction through his “scientific-technical” worldview.

The comedic sensibility behind Mysterious Castle bears comparison to a number of other films and filmmakers. Its sense of anarchy and unpredictability brings to mind the work of the Marx Brothers, while the delight that it takes in in absurdism and abstruse wordplay (only some...

What do Jonathan Glazer, Miguel Gomes, and now, Karyn Kusama all have in common? A shared appreciation for Spanish auteur Luis Buñuel.

During a visit to the Criterion Closet, “Jennifer’s Body” director Kusama cited how Buñuel played with power onscreen, especially in his satirical films focusing on the elite class. Kusama selected features that all dealt with the theme of power: who has it, who is seeking it, and who deploys it.

“Back to that notion of power, I feel like somebody who’s really always poked fun at it and done a great job of exploring it with humor and surrealism is Luis Buñuel,” Kusama said. “There’s a Buñuel set of three films: ‘Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,’ ‘The Phantom of Liberty,’ and ‘That Obscure Object of Desire,’ all in one set. I’m going to get that and have my mind blown again.”

Buñuel directed 35 movies between...

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Roxy Cinema

Martin Scorsese has programmed Living, Breathing New York, which starts with Shadows and a 35mm print of Heaven Knows What on Sunday; The Rubber Gun (watch our exclusive trailer debut) plays Saturday with a Stephen Lack Q&a; Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, and Wild at Heart screen.

Anthology Film Archives

Robina Rose’s Nightshift (watch our exclusive trailer debut) begins playing in a new restoration; Matías Piñeiro-curated series offers Antonioni, Hollis Frampton, and Straub-Huillet.

Film Forum

Luis Buñuel’s Él begins screening in a 4K restoration; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Spring Fever screen; Play It As It Lays and Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman continue; Space Jam screens on Sunday.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; eXistenZ, Mulholland Dr., Paprika, Best in Show, Palindromes, and Pink Flamingos show late.

Eat-the-rich satires go back to the supposed dinosaur days of cinema, from Luis Buñuel to Jean Renoir, but they’re as in demand as ever thanks to the worlds, desperately populated by wealthy delusionals, created by Rian Johnson in his scalding and adored “Knives Out” movies. That many contemporary filmmakers are eager to jump on that tradition thanks to the latter films’ streaming (and no longer especially theatrical) success has led to results both punching and effective (“Ready or Not”) and severely undercooked (“The Menu”).

Enter Alex Scharfman’s “Death of a Unicorn” into that fray, an agonizingly unfunny send-up of big pharma and “Jurassic Park”-scale tentpoles that has none of the tooth or wit of any of the movies I just mentioned.

Here, en route to a weekend retreat in Canada to become proxy to a pharmaceutical billionaire (Richard E. Grant), the feckless Elliot (Paul Rudd) and his Gen Z,...

In Alexander Ullom’s “It Ends,” four friends fresh out of college find themselves on a road with no exits. It’s Jean-Paul Sartre with a Gen Z spin, a hangout horror movie rife with existential anxieties that cinema and television have been wrestling with since their inception — from Luis Buñuel to “The Good Place” — and which philosophers have pondered for much longer. That said, don’t let the familiarity of its premise fool you. It’s first and foremost a streamlined, low-budget genre thriller, albeit one whose overtly pulpy flourishes gradually reveal something more tonally surprising, dramatically complex and immensely promising for all the young talent involved.

What’s immediately striking is how quickly and economically its characters are established in medias res, through seemingly banal conversation and hints of individual personality just divergent enough to cause friction. Behind the wheel, the gruff, soft-spoken Tyler (Mitchell Cole), back from military training,...

"My God, they all know!" Janus Films has revealed a brand new official trailer + new poster for Él, master filmmaker Luis Bunuel's 1953 film set in Mexico. The film has been restored in 4K and will be playing in art house theaters around the US this spring - check your local listings. The film also went under the title This Strange Passion (aka Tourments) in English. A husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid & volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous, unpredictable tantrums. This 4K version was scanned from a dupe positive preserved by Películas y Vídeos Internacionales at the Filmoteca de la Unam. Color grading was supervised by Gabriel Figueroa Flores. The 4K restoration work was completed at L’Immagine Ritrovata in 2022. The Film Foundation also extends special thanks to Guillermo del Toro and Daniela Michel. In making the film, Buñuel added...

The 2025 Academy Awards featured its annual In Memoriam segment, honoring industry figures who passed away over the last year. While the tribute recognized film legends such as David Lynch, James Earl Jones, Donald Sutherland, Maggie Smith, Roger Corman, Shelley Duvall, and Bob Newhart, many viewers quickly pointed out names missing from the televised montage.

Morgan Freeman introduced a special remembrance for two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, who was found dead alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa, last Wednesday. Quincy Jones also received his own tribute later in the show. The rest of the segment, set to Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor, displayed a montage of those the Academy selected for recognition.

Social media reaction grew as fans noted the absence of several well-known actors and filmmakers. Tony Todd, known for his lead role in Candyman, was not featured. Todd, who died in November at 69, was a familiar face in horror,...

The In Memoriam portion of the 2025 Oscars telecast on Sunday night paid a moving tribute to several stars and movie industry folk who have died over the last year, but there were some notable omissions that were quickly pointed out on social media.

The In Memoriam segment of the show, that was soundtracked to the “Lacrimosa” portion of Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor,” featured moving tributes to entertainment industry giants the likes of David Lynch, Maggie Smith, Roger Corman, Shelley Duvall, Bob Newhart, James Earl Jones and Donald Sutherland. Two-time Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, who was found dead inside his Sante Fe home alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa, was given a moving special tribute by his longtime friend Morgan Freeman.

But as ever with the Academy Awards and the In Memoriam segment, much of the discussion online is who was omitted from the televised tribute. One of the more glaring omissions was actor Tony Todd,...

One of the pleasures of the Museum of Modern Art’s Luis Buñuel retrospective last year was my first-time viewing of Él, a wonderfully entertaining tale of obsession and a clear influence on Alfred Hitchcock for Vertigo. Janus Films will now give the new restoration of the 1953 classic a proper run, opening at Film Forum on March 14, and they’ve debuted a new trailer and poster.

Here’s the synopsis: “Among the strangest and most perturbing films of his overlooked Mexican period, Él is Luis Buñuel’s incisive portrait of paranoia, jealousy, and sexual obsession—a nightmarish tale of love gone wrong that prefigures the major themes of his 1960s and ’70s work. Incorporating his personal demons into an adaptation of Mercedes Pinto’s autobiographical novel, Buñuel tells the story of Francisco Galván de Montemayor (Arturo de Córdova), a devout middle-aged bachelor who falls into amour fou with Gloria (Delia Garcés...

Spanish auteur Luis Buñuel helped shape the language of cinema with his now-iconic surrealist reveries, so it’s only fitting that the re-release of one of his most beloved films lands in a time of collective social discord and disillusionment.

Buñuel, who arguably is best known for directing Catherine Deneuve in the legendary 1967 film “Belle de Jour,” helmed an ode to the frustrating pitfalls of the male id more than a decade prior, with 1953’s “Él.” Translated to simply be titled “Him,” the film centers on a paranoid priest (Arturo de Córdova) whose grasp on reality is skewed amid his obsession with a woman seeking solace and absolution (Delia Garcés).

The late Mexican filmmaker directed 35 movies between 1929 and 1977 in the span of his career.

The official synopsis for “Él” reads: “After fleeing her abusive husband, Delia Garcés seeks out the advice of a clergyman, only to discover that her husband...

The Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival was awarded to Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud for Dreams (Sex Love) tonight (February 22), the first time this honour has gone to the country.

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Dreams (Sex Love) sees Haugerud complete his Sex Love Dreams trilogy with the story of a young woman whose writings about a crush on her French teacher shock her mother and grandmother, causing them to re-examine their own fantasies. M-Appeal is handling sales.

Haugerud said on stage that it was “beyond [his] wildest dreams” to win the Golden Bear and, speaking...

Geneviève Page, the alluring French actress who starred in such films as Belle de Jour, El Cid and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, died Friday. She was 97.

Page died at her home in Paris, her granddaughter, actress Zoé Guillemaud, told the Afp news agency.

In a career of more than 50 years, Page appeared in other notable films including Fanfan la Tulip (1952); Foreign Intrigue (1956), opposite Robert Mitchum; The Silken Affair (1956), with David Niven; John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix (1966); Mayerling (1968), directed by Terence Young; and Charles Vidor’s Song Without End (1960), where the director died mid-shoot and was replaced by George Cukor.

In 1967, Spanish director Luis Buñuel cast Page as Madame Anais, the owner and operator of the high-class brothel in Belle de Jour, an adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s 1928 novel.

The film centers on Severine Serizy (Catherine Deneuve), whose sexless marriage pushes her into prostitution — but only between the hours of 2 and 5 p.

If the four-year gap between Frank Ocean’s debut studio album Channel Orange and his follow-ups Endless and Blonde felt long, it’s now been over double the wait to see if another album will ever materialize from the wunderkind artist. We now have a major update on Ocean’s creative output, but rather than a new album in the works, he’s started shooting his directorial debut.

Variety reports David Jonsson has landed the lead role of Ocean’s directorial debut, which Ocean also wrote and is now shooting in Mexico City. While no plot details have arrived, a bit more digging reveals the current title is Philly and shooting actually began in mid-December. As seen below, Ocean was also spotted in Mexico City this past summer shooting footage. Earlier rumors suggested A24 and Taylor Russell were involved in the project, but that has yet to be confirmed.

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The long shadow of patriarchal violence looms over much of writer-director Alireza Khatami’s third feature, The Things You Kill. While we don’t know all the reasons that led Ali (Ekin Koç) to leave his native Turkey for the United States to study and teach literature, it’s clear that the controlling and, at times, physically abusive behavior of his father, Hamit (Ercan Kesal), played a role. Tensions between Hamit and Ali, who moved back to Turkey several years back after 14 years abroad, are high whenever the latter stops over to visit his partially paralyzed mother (Güliz Şirinyan). Ali suspects that his father is preventing her from leaving the house and knows he’s beaten her in the past, and when she dies suddenly, supposedly from an accidental fall, Ali’s grief and anger overtake him in chaotic ways.

What follows initially appears like a conventional revenge tale, spurred...

Storyboards by more than 50 famed filmmakers and animators including Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Federico Fellini, Steven Spielberg, Wes Anderson, and Alfred Hitchcock are set to go on display in an exhibition organised by Italy’s Prada Foundation.

The show, titled “A Kind of Language: Storyboards and Other Renderings for Cinema,” will kick off Jan. 30 in Milan at the Prada Foundation’s Osservatorio outpost and then travel to Prada’s Rong Zhai space dedicated to cultural activities in Shanghai in Nov. 2025.

Prada Foundation “Storyboards” exhibit – which comprises more than eight hundred mood boards, drawings, sketches and other items created between the late 1920s and 2024 – is curated by U.S. academic Melissa Harris, who is editor-at-large of Aperture Foundation. The show is designed to create an immersive experience by mimicking the working environment of a storyboard artist with drafting tables and an open layout.

“For many, storyboarding is an integral part of...

Quentin Tarantino asked Margot Robbie not to clean her feet for shoot? (Photo Credit – Facebook)

The legendary filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino, specifically told the actress not to wash her feet for a scene in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. The quirky request came during a moment in the 2019 film when her character, Sharon Tate, waltzed into a movie theater, kicked off her go-go boots, and settled in to watch herself on the big screen.

Robbie revealed in an interview with Vogue: “My feet were dirty because I’d been walking around set. They stayed dirty in the movie because Quentin said, ‘Don’t. Don’t clean them.’”

Apparently, Tarantino wanted authenticity—gritty soles and all. When a crew member tried to swoop in and clean things up, the director put his foot down, quite literally. Robbie added: “Someone ran in to do it, and he was like, ‘No, it’s real.

David Lynch, the writer-director whose films and TV series including Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks portrayed a seemingly bucolic America, only to reveal it as teeming with the mysterious and macabre, has died. He was 78.

Lynch’s death was announced on his Facebook page:

“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ … It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”

In August, he revealed that he was suffering from emphysema after many years of smoking and that he couldn’t leave home for fear that he would get Covid-19.

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Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” died Jan. 15. He was 78.

Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able to leave his house to direct any longer. His family announced his death in a Facebook post, writing, “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'”

The “Twin Peaks” TV show and films such as “Blue Velvet,” “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive” melded elements of horror, film noir, the whodunit and classical European surrealism. Lynch wove tales, not unlike those of his Spanish predecessor Luis Bunuel, which proceeded with their own impenetrable logic.

Welp, it’s January. That special time of year where everyone is simultaneously recovering from the holidays and trying to kick off the new year by putting their best foot forward. TV shows that have been on break will soon return and mid-season premieres quickly follow thereafter, but for film, January is often looked at as slow period for new releases, with offerings like “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,” Leigh Whannell’s “Wolf Man,” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence” being unveiled. Films that have had awards-qualifying runs like Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” and Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl” will also expand wider, boosting their profiles in time for Oscar voting, but generally, there’s not much going on to excite the average movie-goer this month. So what better time to say, “Out with the new, in with the old!”

Repertory theaters in New York and Los Angeles have...

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are scouring the list, looking for suddenly free intellectual property to turn into horror fare. Hence the slasher films that have already been created or are in the works turning beloved characters into homicidal maniacs, like the infamous “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.”

But these Pd-sploitation filmmakers are really picking low-hanging fruit and not digging nearly deep enough into the lists for ideas. So we’ve identified some films, novels and even memoirs and pop songs that are brand new to the public domain, as of the beginning of 2025, just begging to be bloodied up. Yes, including Popeye, the seeming innocent who arguably always had a bit of the glint of a serial killer in his eye — but also...