Smile through it: a trilogy of early features by Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris explore the misogyny constraining women’s everyday lives—and their acts of disobedience and rebellion—through complex, provocative narratives
Look back in anger: the Polish filmmaker is perhaps best known for the proto-psychedelia of 1965’s The Saragossa Manuscript, but much of his formidable filmography consists of realist dramas that explore lost innocence and doomed love
Every grain of sand: Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster remains, for all its bombastic bricolage of religious and cinematic iconography, a stolidly professional and surprisingly unimaginative adaptation of the sci-fi classic
Smoke gets in your eyes: this year's edition included titles like Direct Action, exergue – on documenta 14, Favoriten, and Dahomey, all of which probe, in very different ways, the responsibilities of civic and cultural institutions
The French Chef: Trần Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things, starring former off-screen lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, boasts all the classic elements of culinary cinema, but deploys them to culturally and narratively specific ends
Exile on main street: the movies Luis Buñuel made in exile, the subject of a screening series at the Museum of Modern Art, combine his avant-garde roots with the commercial demands of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
Born again: Phạm Thiên Ân’s hypnotic debut feature Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell is a formally breathtaking meditation on faith—and a testament to cinema as a vehicle for miraculous transformation
Walking on water: A selection of newly restored films make clear the continuing relevance of the work of Lorenza Mazetti, a long-unheralded artist whose influential work is finally getting its due
Out of the past: in this recently unearthed interview, the master filmmaker shares his thoughts on working with actors, adapting fiction, the debatable necessity of originality, and much more
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