William Powell ditches his usual urbane trappings to play an unhoused man who meets a family of ritzy ditzes and lands a job as their new butler. Will he and most adorable ditz Carole Lombard fall for each other despite the apparent class chasm? Have you ever seen a screwball comedy before? The plot stretches credulity like taff more »
Lightning and Thunder, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act, experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together. more »
On Christmas Eve, Cliff, a newly sober improv comedian, cracks a tooth and lands in the emergency care of Didi, an older no-nonsense dentist. What begins as a routine check-up sparks an unpredictable evening of misadventures. Together, Cliff and Didi fight to overcome being shut out by their families, face their biggest fears, a more »
A powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. more »
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. more »
In 1977, a technology expert flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the refuge he seeks. more »
An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art. more »
Arguably the best Shakespeare adaptation ever put onscreen. Akira Kurosawa couldn’t rely on the Bard’s iambs when transposing Macbeth to feudal Japan, but he created visuals of competing richness—blanketing mists, lunar plains, tangled thickets, a Noh witch, flights of fateful arrows. Toshiro Mifune’s intensity embodies the usur more »
One of the great live bands of the late 20th century hit the stage with a show designed to make the most of their prowess, add to the impact of the performance, and distract the least from the musicians and songs. They got one of the best and most adaptable directors of the era to film it. Together, they created one of the top f more »
Woody Allen’s Woody Allen shtick hasn’t aged well, to say the least, but you’re really here for the late Diane Keaton, right? In truth, she only embodies the title caricature—big hat, menswear, gawky demeanor, bad driver—for a few minutes here. Otherwise, she’s a remarkably three-dimensional character who, as more »
Hailed as the most successful exhibition in Tate Modern’s history, and equally popular at MoMA New York, audiences are invited to enjoy an intimate, behind-the-scenes documentary about this once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster exhibition with expert contributions from those that knew Matisse as well as curators, historians, Tate direc more »
A slice of life about the courtship rituals of young white affluent Manhattanites about 5 seconds before AIDS changed everything and 10 years before the entire island began bending to their will. Whit Stillman’s comedies of the mannered retain their droll charm, and sharp turns from Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, and Stillman s more »
As their marriage unravels, Alex faces middle age and divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene. Meanwhile, his wife Tess confronts sacrifices made for their family, forcing them to navigate co-parenting and identities. more »
You think your family is odd? Meet the Crumbs. Charles is a mentally ill shut-in. Maxon is an ascetic mendicant. Robert is celebrated as one of the 20th century’s great artists and damned for the sexism and racism in his work. Terry Zwigoff’s engrossing documentary not only lays bare R. Crumb’s life, it gets at something deep an more »
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cine more »
Who doesn’t love dogs? Who doesn’t love Christopher Guest’s improvised comedies? A cast of Guest regulars (including Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Michael McKean, John Michael Higgins, Parker Posey, Jane Lynch, and Jennifer Coolidge) embody obsessive dog-show types angling for blue ribbons. Fred Willard arrives late and puts th more »
As Spike is inducted into Jimmy Crystal's gang on the mainland, Dr. Kelson makes a discovery that could alter the world. A sequel to 2025's 28 Years Later. more »
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition. more »
True story: Jacques Tati shot his wry comedy epic on 70 mm in order to capture every purpose-built mid-century architectural detail, every bit of odd background business, and every sight gag, no matter how broad or subtle. The film’s loving sendup of the modern world still works a half century later because of Tati’s read on peo more »
Todd Haynes’ astonishing second feature has aged a bit, but it’s also deepened and gained in its disturbing power. Julianne Moore’s suburban lady who lunches is such a virtuoso blank that her descent into inexplicable illness and malaise functions as a kind of skeleton-key metaphor, fitting a dozen social ills over the past 30 y more »
Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events. more »
Leos Carax faced two nearly insurmountable challenges here: shooting on the Pont Neuf bridge, one of Paris’ major thoroughfares, and making Juliette Binoche look haggard. He rose to the occasion for his breakout, combining documentary grit with classic melodramatic amour as Binoche and the great Denis Lavant play two star-crosse more »
Tim Robbins delivers mail in gritty old NYC, but visions of demons and literal Vietnam flashbacks interrupt his shackup bliss with girlfriend Elizabeth Peña.The this-is-a-true-ish-story frame is kinda dumb, but class-trash peddler Adrian Lyne plays way over his head here and makes no errors as the dread creeps. Endlessly ripped- more »
Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. more »
Yes, it’s a fairytale princess story, but the venerable Disney adaptation also resembles a Tom and Jerry cartoon for a good chunk of runtime as a cartoon cat and a gang of mice wage goofy war. There’s also female undermining and patriarchal machinations. And some stunning hand-drawn animation, of course. -Lee Gardner more »
A woman disappears on a barren Mediterranean islet during a yachting jaunt. Her fiance (Gabriele Ferzetti) and her best friend (Monica Vitti) search for her. The mystery lies not in the disappearance, but in what happens to those left behind, as director/co-writer Michelangelo Antonioni crafts one of the richest texts of mid-cen more »
From the Director: I think it’s fair to say that the group of artists working in late 19th-century Paris and that we call ‘the Impressionists’ are the most popular group in art history. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro, Caillebotte and others. Yet in their own lifetimes they knew poverty and reje more »
Jim Jarmusch transposes Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï to urban East Coast America for this genre gem. Forest Whitaker tools up as a taciturn hitman who follows the ancient honor code of feudal Japan, bringing him into conflict with his employers, the local Mob. Isaach de Bankolé’s ice cream man and the RZA’s bumping score b more »
How does that saying go about good deeds? Silvia Pinal’s nun-to-be loathes her creepy old uncle (Fernando Rey) but nonetheless consents to visit him one last time before she takes her final vows. What ensues represents one of Luis Buñuel’s most thoroughgoing savagings of the Catholic Church, and that’s saying something. -Lee Gar more »
A boy shouldering a cross-shaped weapon wanders a war–ravaged waste. A young girl cradles a round belly — in fact, it’s a large egg hidden under her dress, an egg she’s convinced is special. Writer/ director Mamuro Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy) teamed up for this terse mindblower, nev more »
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. more »
Everybody’s broke, people are being rounded up on the streets, and Nazis are on the rise. Yes, it’s Germany between the world wars, the setting of Bob Fosse’s screen adaptation of the Broadway smash. The ambisexual bed-hopping at the heart of the plot is au courant, too, though the film is at its louche best on the grotty stage more »
Madonna was never going to be a great actress, but she’s undeniable as a screen presence. She shot to stardom while Susan Seidelman was shooting this downtown romp with Rosanna Arquette as a Jersey housewife whose amnesia leads to her swapping lives with the Material Girl’s title wastrel. Lots of fun, not least for Manhattan pre more »
Humphrey Bogart stars, though you don’t see his face for a third of the film. Delmer Daves shot the early reels from Bogart’s character’s POV—a bold gambit/ gimmick that helps enliven this solid noir. After plastic surgery, Bogart tries to prove his innocence with the help of Lauren Bacall. Several tense sequences and a kindly c more »
Turns out you can film pretty much any novel, though apparently there are limits to how queer you make it. David Cronenberg’s take on William S. Burroughs’ subterranean classic leans into surrealism, squalor, and ick as Peter Weller’s authorial stand-in infiltrates a nightmare demimonde undercover as a straight guy. If nothing e more »
Womanizing workaholic substance-abusing chainsmoking Bob Fosse transformed his decline into one of the great American films, as clear-eyed about death, creativity, and denial as any movie ever made. You might not imagine Roy Scheider as the star of a musical, but then it’s tough to imagine a director making a film about his own more »
Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. He is rightfully known as the father of Impressionism. It was a dramatic path that Pissarro followed, and throughout it all he wrote extensively to his family. It is through these intimate and revealing letters that this gripping film reveals Pissarro’s life and work. more »
It’s reductive to call it the French Do the Right Thing, but not inaccurate. Vincent Cassel, Saȉd Taghmaoui, and Hubert Koundé star as three young men living in a Parisian slum in the wake of an uprising. A friend lying near death after a beating by police and a cop’s lost gun complicate matters. Director Mathieu Kassovitz’s sil more »
Peter Greenaway’s prickly cinema finally hit big with arthouse audiences here. Food and sex will do that. Everybody despises Michael Gambon’s vile gangster, but he holds money and violence over restaurateur Richard Bohringer, just violence over wife Helen Mirren. That doesn’t prevent her from pursuing an affair in the restaurant more »
Lumetland is full of courthouses and bars and unappealing apartments, with the occasional posh paneled room just to make the regular Joes feel inferior. Paul Newman is a serious Lumet guy, a clay-footed lawyer with scotch for blood who gets a chance to turn it all around and blows nearly every shot at it. You’ve seen it all befo more »
That this movie ever existed, much less continues to, seems like some fake Wikipedia entry that will get taken down any minute. Nicolas Cage plays screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman, who was hired to adapt Susan Orlean’s book The Orchid Thief. He did. That’s the film you’re watching. But it’s mostly about Kaufman’s inability more »
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide on March 21 as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love- more »
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, more »
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is more »
Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favorite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition On Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience - is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and more »
On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a r more »
