Film-Forward

Film History

Varda by Agnès | NYFF 2019

A master class that brings valuable insights to a significant career, more than six decades after it began.

Memory: The Origin of Alien

The actual nuts-and-bolts production of the Ridley Scott 1979 science fiction horror staple is only one piece of this examination.

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

The behind-the-scenes adventures, provocations, and controversies of Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes: Land Without Bread.

Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino’s most exuberant and, believe it or not, minimalist film riffs on late-1960s Hollywood.

The Queen

Take a look into the world that gave rise to Pose and RuPaul’s Drag Race.

You Don’t Nomi | Tribeca Film Festival 2019

The most thoughtful deconstruction of a film imaginable, as well as an ideal festival choice for those who used to buy DVDs just for the commentaries.

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Director Pamela B. Green makes film history a pleasure to watch and a gateway for those who would otherwise pass on the chance to explore moviemaking before the advent of sound.

The Eyes of Orson Welles

Mark Cousins’s inspires you to take a second look at Welles’s films and admire a legacy that goes beyond Citizen Kane.

Babylon

It wasn’t what the movie depicted but what it said about class conflicts, racism, and normalized xenophobia in Thatcher’s Britain that caused this film to be sidelined.