Richard Brody

Also: The hundred-year-old jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen, Baz Luhrmann’s dramatic new East Village bar, Alice Childress’s “Wine in the Wilderness,” and more.

The Portuguese director, who made twenty-two features after the age of eighty, rejuvenated the art of movies by linking personal experience to the arc of history.

The movie critic’s informal manifesto reflects both her brilliance and her blind spots during a revolutionary period in Hollywood.

Also: the audacious Andy Kaufman; Richard Learoyd’s haunting new photography; and the Wooster Group gets wistful.

Alain Guiraudie’s intimate thriller, about sex and death in a rustic village, bends classic tropes into modern forms.

Jessica Palud’s portrait of the actress, who starred, with Marlon Brando, in “Last Tango in Paris,” centers the abuse that Schneider endured on that shoot, and its lifelong aftereffects.

This historical docufiction, directed by Lou Ye, boldly dramatizes the outbreak of COVID in China by way of its impact on a movie shoot.

In Carson Lund’s stylistically innovative directorial début, two amateur teams say farewell to a beloved field—but will their game yield a result?

The last film by Sophie Fillières, who died before completing it, is a bold reckoning with an artist’s self-awareness and personal freedom in the face of illness.

Even as the Academy increasingly recognizes independent productions, a blockbuster mentality still governs the almost unwatchable ceremony.