In Memoriam

Wild Bill: the legendary director of The Exorcist and The French Connection left behind a body of work that can be appreciated both viscerally and intellectually

Social media: programmer and producer Tom Luddy, who passed away last February, exerted a major influence on Bay Area and American film culture equal to that of the great critics or directors of his generation

Casting spells: the stalwart of American experimental film, who passed away last August, left behind five decades’ worth of intimate, illusive, and ritualistic films

Light work: the Japanese filmmaker’s tireless curiosity allowed him ever new and different angles from which to tackle questions about the singularity of each cinematic moment

Man on wire: no director ever lived up to his last name better than Rush did in the Peter O’Toole-starring The Stunt Man

One for the road: a tribute to the late director and his minimalist, elliptical masterpiece

Colombian class warrior Luis Ospina blazed a revolutionary trail through Latin American cinema with subversive genre and documentary works

From beyond: the director of Re-Animator leaves behind a varied and endlessly imaginative body of work

Pioneering filmmaker John Singleton captured the humanity and horrors of the modern urban world

Beyond the pristine persona, Doris Day excelled as a realist