Clinton Krute

Secrets and lies: the documentarian talks about his latest, a love story couched in an epic tale of international espionage and nuclear anxiety

Straight, no chaser: Alain Gomis’s artful remix of a 1969 French TV interview with Thelonious Monk dissects the casual racism suffered by the musical genius

Let there be light: in the radiant One Fine Morning, Mia Hansen-Løve conveys an auto-fictional tale of grief and new love with disarming and affecting sincerity

Fictional characters: Hong Sangsoo’s latest, The Novelist’s Film, is a work of deceptive minimalism, inflected with themes of aging, mortality, and the high stakes of art-making

Locked in: Gina Telaroli, Inney Prakash, and Steve Macfarlane join to discuss some highlights from the repertory calendar, including series at Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, and Maysles Documentary Center

Whole lotta shakin’: Elvis is predictably overstuffed, but not even Baz Luhrmann’s blinding glitz can overshadow the singer’s tragic legacy

Shoot your shot: Adam Sandler’s latest features some surprising performances from a host of professional ballplayers and another endearing turn from the Sandman himself

Front lines: the directors of the 1979 documentary on the Industrial Workers of the World discuss the film’s new restoration and its continuing relevance

Dang me: Alan Rudolph’s 1984 country-music comedy is a rough-and-rowdy good time, punctuated by a typically unhinged performance from Rip Torn

Approximately infinite universe: Yoko's spectral presence in Peter Jackson's Beatles doc is a reminder of the of the persistence and influence of the avant-garde

Running on empty: with an unbelievable cast and a healthy dose of paranoid politics, it’s a shame that this 1984 action flick isn’t better known

Living rough: the veneer of vérité realism in this new-to-streaming collection of short docs gives way to something far more unplaceable

Group effort: critics Chloe Lizotte and Ela Bittencourt join to discuss highlights from this year's lineup, including The Tsugua Diaries, Haruhara-san’s Recorder, and more

Faultlines: William Klein’s revealing portrait of the 1981 French Open is alternately sprawling and incisive

Time was: this raw, no-frills concert documentary leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste, not entirely unlike the vague regret of a Sunday morning coming down

Virtual insanity: programmers Abby Sun and Steve Macfarlane join to talk about the increasingly ill-defined boundaries of the repertory film world

Smoke gets in your eyes: the critic and scholar joins to discuss her new book about Benning’s 2004 film

Bridge over troubled water: Hong Sangsoo’s second movie employs a bravura narrative structure that elucidates the solipsistic lives of its protagonists

Pocket symphony: a 1978 documentary about Don Cherry captures the working life of an artist who never stopped moving

Altered states: listen to our new playlist inspired by Ahmed El Maanouni's rapturous Moroccan concert doc