Film-Forward

Costume Drama

An Officer and a Spy

Roman Polanski’s most personal film since The Pianist (2002) revisits one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in French history.

Firebrand

An uneven period drama about the Tudor monarch’s final spouse that plays fast and loose with the historical record.

The Promised Land

A cinematic soap opera of the highest order.

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Chen Kaige’s epic has returned in all its visual splendor and with 14 minutes restored.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire | NYFF 2019

Céline Sciamma turns to period drama with this elegant meditation on female desire that flips the script on the male gaze.

The Favourite | NYFF 2018

Director Yorgos Lanthimos turns Queen Anne’s court into a bawdy and baroque hothouse.

Victoria & Abdul

An entertaining and frustrating unofficial sequel to John Madden’s Mrs. Brown

Phantom Thread

You will see it for Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis but stay for Lesley Manville.

The Childhood of a Leader

The story of a sociopath learning his trade, beautifully crafted in old-school filmmaking.