Film
Kronos Quartet Tells Its Story in a Live Documentary
The venerable string quartet is touring A Thousand Thoughts, playing live accompaniment for a documentary about its history and music.
Film
Art
The Global Culture of Punk On Screen
The series will feature seven films that center on the global influence of punk and will be held in conjunction with the exhibition Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986.
Film
The Tender Turns of the Crime Drama Dogman
Balancing verité grit with sometimes-howling humor, Matteo Garrone's new movie is subtler than what viewers might anticipate.
Art
A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles
The Now Instant Image Hall is already carving out an identity for itself as a venue for artists no one else in the city will show.
Film
Donald Glover's Guava Island Is a Visual Delight, and That's the Point
Guava Island is a fun, colorful, anti-capitalist romp that leaves viewers smiling.
Film
Ash Is Purest White Is a Gangland China Love Story
The writer-director's latest feature film chronicles China's socioeconomic transformation through the eyes of a couple caught up in the criminal underworld.
Interview
Claire Denis on Black Holes, Olafur Eliasson, and the Making of High Life
"This movie is about things we know today about our own galaxy. It's not an unknown future. It's almost here."
Film
When Classic Hollywood Attempted to Deal with Sexual Violence
In a Lonely Place isn’t so much a straightforward thriller as it is a poignant psychological study of a person and a milieu, veiled as an atmospheric noir.
Film
A B-Movie that Inspired Generations of Filmmakers, Including the French New Wave
A precursor and inspiration for filmmakers from the French New Wave to Arthur Penn, Gun Crazy plays in New York on April 14 and 19.
Film
The Afghan Films Left Unfinished Under Communist Rule
The reels for the aborted film projects had been kept in the archives of Afghan Film, which director Mariam Ghani mined for her new movie What We Left Unfinished.
Art
A New Trend Among Superhero Movies: The Villains Are Right
The villains of movies like Black Panther and Infinity War pose a threat to the status quo, and their motivations for doing so are understandable or even inarguable.
Interview
Why the Art and Design Details of Rashid Johnson’s Native Son Matter
The 2019 adaptation of Richard Wright’s classic novel, with production design by Akin McKenzie, feels like a complete aesthetic reimagining of Wright’s 20th-century source material.