Imogen Sara Smith

Parallel lines: Park Chan-wook’s epic detective story Decision to Leave is the most overtly romantic entry in Park’s often blood-soaked filmography

Woman’s work: the remarkable work of the Japanese actress-turned-auteur gets its due with a retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center

Fair is foul: Joel Coen's stark, stylized The Tragedy of Macbeth is an unmistakeably Coen-esque and eerily timely distillation of the Scottish play

Time’s arrow: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, the past is alien, layered with trauma and the beauty of the unknowable

Look again: In his latest film, Bill Morrison constructs a meditation on mortality, Soviet history, the search for lost things, and the persistence of accordions

With the miraculous About Endlessness, the living pictures of Roy Andersson heave a melancholy sigh over the human condition

Range life: Kelly Reichardt’s latest shares themes of nature and capitalism with Bernd Shoch’s new documentary Olanda

Night on Earth: this year’s edition of the traveling festival focuses on international films from the classic noir era

Return engagement: MoMA’s annual series uncovers the remarkable films of Louis Valray along with a classic of Thai cinema

Sisters and lovers: two new movies dwell on the emotional bonds between women, and on the choice—or lack thereof—of life paths offered to them

Saving time: two new documentaries dwell on the compulsion to record as a means of staving off the relentless passage of time

The lower depths: a series of gritty Japanese films at Film Forum shares themes of class and longing with Bong Joon-ho’s thriller

On three strikingly beautiful films at NYFF57: Mati Diop’s Atlantics, Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela, and Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden

On the road: two films by Ognjen Glavonic explore the same grim events through documentary and narrative fiction

Standing witness: two new documentaries find moments of hard-won beauty in difficult times

Work and play: three films find beauty in the everyday lives of characters struggling to adapt to the modern world

Youth and revolt: two Chilean films approach memory and politics from different perspectives

Bird on a wire: the life of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev might have been written for the screen

Looking and seeing: two films about genius, perception, and visual communication

Always leaving or being left behind, the refugee protagonists of Christian Petzold's Transit circulate on the tides of war and history