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Boo: premised on illusion and promising endless reanimation, cinema is often called the ghostliest of mediums, haunted by phantoms since its beginnings

A dog’s life: a fascinating (and frightening) retrospective at this year’s Viennale focused on violent genre films produced in Austria in the 1980s, exemplified by Gerald Kargl’s controversial 1983 serial-killer flick, Angst

Pod life: horror experts Nicholas Russell and Clyde Folley join for our annual fearfest, this time focusing on Abel Ferrara’s 1993 remake, Body Snatchers, and Michael Powell’s classic, Peeping Tom

Shutter speed: a new series at the Museum of Modern Art showcases a staggering range of Iranian films made before the revolution of 1979, including including films by Bahram Beyzaie, Amir Naderi, and Masoud Kimiai

Through the lens: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon explores an overlooked chapter of American history, and intervenes in film history itself, especially as it pertains to representations of Native peoples

Listen to this: the place and role of music in NYFF61 biopics Maestro and Priscilla is instructive of the ways in which an artist’s life can only be understood through their work

Decline and fall: the French discusses her Palme d’Or–winning feature, which uses courtroom-drama tropes to fashion a dark, witty, and tender dissection of the complexities of romantic and family life

Sweet nothings: all-star critics Molly Haskell, Adam Nayman, and Kelli Weston join for a Film Comment Live talk to discuss and debate all the highlights of the festival that was

Love in the afternoon: the French filmmaker discusses her return to cinema, the productive tension between realism and expressionism, the art of the sex scene, and much more

Purple haze: highlights of the NYFF61 Currents shorts programs make a case for a cinema that turns minimalism and economy into a field for vibrant, unfettered experimentation