Film
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Indigenous People Film Festival
Images in Williamstown
By: - Sep 18th, 2026Images Cinema will present a second edition of Indigenous Peoples Film Festival, its series featuring indigenous films from across the US and Canada, beginning Monday, October 5 and continuing weekly on Mondays through October 26th, with a finale on Thursday, October 29.
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Bibliomania Plays Film at Linbcoln Center
Award-winning Chronovisor Crowns the Festival
By: - Aug 19th, 2026Film at Lincoln Center presents Bibliomania: A Preface to Chronovisor, a 15-film repertory series running from August 28 through September 3, 2026. The festival preludes the release of Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s thriller Chronovisor with a program exploring cinema centered on the texts stored in reading rooms, research facilities, and libraries.
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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey
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MFA French Film Festival
30th Anniversary
By: - Jul 08th, 2026Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this year’s Boston French Film Festival presents a wide-ranging selection of contemporary cinema from France focused on art, identity, and cultural memory.
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Copland and Twain on Broadway
Chelsea Music Festival
By: - Jun 28th, 2026Copland and Twain was a highlight of the Chelsea Music Festival 2026. For the first time, the adventurous group that produces this festival mounted a work in a Broadway venue. To make a 250th anniversary statement for our country, they chose to mix the music of Aaron Copland, often called the Dean of American Music, with the words of Mark Twain, our liveliest chronicler.
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Barbara Hannigan at the New York Philharmonic
Thrilling
By: - Apr 27th, 2026Barbara Hannigan made her conducting debut at the Wu Tsai Hall in David Geffen Hall. The performance was breathtaking. Singing Fracis Poulenc’s La voix Humaine, Hannigan makes music visible in her movements. The orchestra understood her every gesture and engaged.
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Dennis Hopper, Actor, Director, Photographer and Art Collector
Out of the Blue
By: - Apr 24th, 2026In 1980 I had a gonzo interview with an ever more wasted Dennis Hopper in a suite of the Copley Plaza Hotel. He was there to do PR for the American Premiere of Out of the Blue the third film he directed after a hiatus of a decade. His directorial debut Easy Rider was a counter culture masterpiece. The second, The Last Movie, 1971. was a bomb and never released. The five images that accompany this article document his volatile mood. He spoke without restraint of his epic struggles as an artist with poignant revelations of his unique genius.
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Sarasota Film Festival
Less Hoopla and More Focus on Film
By: - Apr 06th, 2026The 2026 Sarasota Filn Festival, which runs April 10-19, is a more restrained affair, with greater emphasis on the films than famous faces. Though there are still parties to open and close the 10-day event, the most notable name on the visitor list is Julian Schnabel, who is probably as well known as a painter as he is as a film director.
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Christian Petzold at Lincoln Center
FLC Presents Iconic Filmmaker's Signatre Works
By: - Mar 12th, 2026Film at Lincoln Center announces “Christian Petzold In Person,” a seven-film showcase of the German director’s signature works, with most films presented on 35mm. Christian Petzold has said that he always wants to work in Kodak color, the only film stock that can convey his concepts. March 16-19 in advance of the US premiere of Petzhold's Miroirs No. 3.
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Tristan and Isolde at the Met Opera
A Musical and Visual Treat
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Metropolitan Opera is proposing a future with its new production of Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the now middle-aged enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, it is in part a test of his suitability for the Der Ring des Nibelungen, which will follow in 2027. Do we imbibe Richard Wagner’s musical potion in Sharon’s new take on the mythic love story?
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Everyone Digs Bill Evans in Berlin
Grant Gee Wins Silver Bear for Best Direction
By: - Feb 25th, 2026Bill Evans, as portrayed in the film Everybody Digs Bill Evans—which earned Grant Gee a Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2026—is inarguably one of the greatest jazz pianists of the last century.
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Berlinale 2026 In Berlin
From February 12 to 22
By: - Feb 23rd, 2026One of the biggest international film festivals world wide, the Berlinale in Berlin, Germany is history for this year again. From February 12 to 22, around 200 films from all over the globe were shown in Berlin at the Potsdamer Platz film headquarters and around town.
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Yo, or Love Is a Rebellious Bird, by Anna Fitch and Banker White
Silver Bear for Documentary In Berlin International Film Festuval
By: - Feb 21st, 2026Yo, the only documentary in the main competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, was shown at the Berlin Palast with "the team" in attendance. Banker White, co-director, cradled a puppet rendition of Yo, the film’s lead character, in his arms as he helped her “sign” a poster hung above the red carpet. Winner Silver Bear for Artistic Achievement
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The Red Hangar at the Berlin International Film Festival
A Resonating Story
By: - Feb 19th, 2026The Red Hangar (Hangar Rojo), a 2026 Chilean historical thriller directed by Juan Pablo Sallato, is being shown in the Perspectives section at the Berlin International Film Festival. Captain Jorge Silva is forced to choose between obeying orders and listening to his conscience. This uncomfortable dilemma does not arise only in the present moment of the 1973 Chilean military coup, but also from his past.
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A Prayer for the Dying Premieres in Berlin
Dara Van Dusen is a Superb Filmmaker
By: - Feb 19th, 2026A film adaptation of Stewart O’Nan’s novel A Prayer for the Dying premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. The director, Dara Van Dusen—Hollywood royalty as the granddaughter of Baby Doll’s Carroll Baker—is a creature of the world, countering America’s current image of backsliding into the past. Van Dusen studied film in Poland and now lives in Norway.
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One Battle After Another, Best Picture
Paul Thomas Anderson's Take on Pynchon's Vineland
By: - Jan 05th, 2026One Battle After Another comes out of the starting gate in first place, a position it deserves to keep. It has just won the Critics’ Choice Best Picture Award, along with Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Timothee Chalamet as Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie's Film Enthralls and Sucks
By: - Dec 19th, 2025Marty Supreme starring Timothee Chalamet goes into wide release on Christmas Day. It is the Safdie Brothers “Uncut Gems" redux. Shot by the fabulous Darius Khondji in zoom close up, with the camera moving with the figures and placing us right beside characters we may not want to know so well, we are gripped for two and a half hours.
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Ginny Williams, Art Whisperer
A Moving Film
By: - Dec 10th, 2025Director Flemming Fynsk's moving film The Art Whisperer is in contention for awards this year. Its subject, Ginny Williams, was an art collector and gallery owner of remarkable instinct and vision.
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Film at Lincoln Center Presents Yoshimuro
Brilliant and Underappreciated Filmmaker
By: - Nov 28th, 2025Film at Lincoln Center will present “Kozaburo Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion,” a retrospective of 13 films by one of the accomplished yet underappreciated figures of the golden age of Japanese cinema. Running from December 5 through December 11, 2025, the festival is presented in partnership with the Japan Foundation.
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L.A. Rebellion Plays at Lincoln Center
A Visceral Picture of Black Life Brought to Film by Black Artists
By: - Apr 23rd, 2025In 1968, UCLA launched a groundbreaking initiative to increase enrollment of Black, Latino, Native American, and Asian film students. Though the program ended in 1973, it had already admitted a significant number of students of color, many of whom later attracted others to UCLA. This initiative produced a remarkable group of Black filmmakers. Film at Lincoln Center celebrates this legacy.
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Directors New Films at Lincoln Center and MOMA
What Is the Future of FIlm?
By: - Mar 27th, 2025New Directors/New Films runs at MOMA and Film at Lincoln Center from April 2 to 13.
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Koln 75, the Movie, Premieres in Berlin
Keith Jarrett's Signature Evening and Engaging Film
By: - Mar 05th, 2025Keith Jarrett’s performance in Cologne, Germany, in 1975 is widely regarded as one of the great solo concerts of all time. The new film Koln '75 about this iconic moment asks, “How did the concert come to be?”
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Blue Moon in a Sunny Berlin
Kaplow, Linklater, and Hawke Team with Lorenz Hart
By: - Feb 25th, 2025For the screening of 240 films at its international berlinale, Berlin was sunny, sometimes crisply cold and at others, almost balmy. Perhaps because it is under the big sky, this city is a perfect place to see films in which the artists take their time, and let character and story emerge paced to the subject.
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75th Berlinale, February 13 --23, 2025
Berlin's Yearly Film Festival
By: - Feb 24th, 2025Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, is, once more, the center of the 75th Berlinale, as it has been for many years. It is cold in the city, but the area around the film festival is crowded with spectators, press people and the arrival and departure of the film elite from all over the world. Happy and exciting times are here again, as always during the festival times, this year from February 13 – 23, 2025.
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Berin Film Festival Begins
Potsdamer Platz is Command Central
By: - Feb 15th, 2025Potsdamer Platz is command central for the Berlin Film Festival. While Babelsberger Studios, the oldest large-scale studio in the world, is outside Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, is near the center of the city. It sits between the home of the Berlin Philharmonic and New National Gallery, the only building Mies Van der Rohe designed in Europe after he emigrated from the continent.
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