Up until last year, my understanding of Portuguese cinema was rather limited. I’d encountered the work of contemporary directors such as João Pedro Rodrigues and Catarina Vasconcelos over the years, a...

Cinema Guild will mount a touring theatrical retrospective of Moullet’s work starting at Film at Lincoln Center in New York in August.

The directorial debut of António Reis was something of a bolt from the blue. While it was certainly not the first instance of a great first work in Portuguese cinema – a cinema whose most interesting ...

'Fire Of Wind' debuted at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and had its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival

One of my biggest objections to many of the films that pass through the festival circuit today is the phony cosmopolitanism of many productions: films made from nowhere, but seemingly addressed to eve...

Jerry Lewis directs and stars in this irreverent 1967 comedy about a hapless accountant.

A Dialogue on Mid-Period Jerry Lewis by Chris Fujiwara & A.S. Hamrah

Opens February 21, 2025 at Metrograph (New York) & Feb. 22 at Doc Films (Chicago) Largely unknown outside Portugal, filmmakers António Reis (1927-1991) and Margarida Cordeiro (b. 193...