The New York Times – Film:
At Film Forum, a retrospective of the Senegalese director’s work shows the care he took in telling female stories.
Category: Film Forum
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‘Winter Kills’ Returns in New Print at Film Forum
The New York Times – Film:
Part black comedy, part paranoid thriller, the 1979 movie returns after four decades in a new 35 mm print at Film Forum.
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Claire Simon Finds a New Subject: Herself
The New York Times – Film:
The French director Claire Simon was making a movie about a Paris hospital when she found out she had cancer. So she became a character in her own film.
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‘The Oak’: A Post-Communist Pinwheel
The New York Times – Film:
Lucian Pintilie’s newly restored mad farce, now at Film Forum, paved the way for the Romanian new wave.
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‘Lumière’: An Actress Destined to Be in the Light
The New York Times – Film:
Jeanne Moreau’s first film as a director is showing for a week at Film Forum, newly restored and seven minutes longer than its 1976 U.S. release.
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Film Forum Director Karen Cooper to Step Down After 50 Years
The New York Times – Film:
Karen Cooper, who took over the nonprofit cinema in 1972 and transformed it into a $6 million-a-year operation, will step down in July after five decades.
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Why New Yorkers Still ❤️ Film
The New York Times – Film:
Projectionists are busier than ever, as they serve a demand for obscure 35-millimeter titles, nostalgia and the quirks of analog.
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‘The 400 Blows,’ a Directing Debut That Still Astonishes
The New York Times – Film:
In 1959, François Truffaut premiered his first film, about a Parisian boy playing hooky, and moviemaking hasn’t been the same since.
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Still Charming at 50: Luis Buñuel’s Greatest Hit
The New York Times – Film:
“The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois” is a comedy of frustrations in which a sextet of super-civilized haute bourgeois repeatedly attempt and fail to sit down at dinner.