Charles Burnett talks about My Brother's Wedding, his long-languishing follow-up to Killer Of Sheep, as it finds its way to the big screen.

An imperfect masterpiece.

An imperfect masterpiece.

70 years ago, in 1956, Lionel Rogosin made On the Bowery, a landmark of American cinema and a key work in the revival of American independent filmmaking. The texts gathered here return to this formati...

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A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously inventive activity away from public view.

Shirley Clarke (1919–1997) was an American independent filmmaker, electronic media pioneer, and teacher who resisted the norm wherever life brought her. A ...

Un libro che va a colmare un vuoto piuttosto grave, poiché di pubblicazioni incentrate sulla danzatrice, cineasta e videoartista newyorkese non vi è quasi nulla a livello internazionale

Join Film at Lincoln Center for a 2-for-1 35mm double feature of the seminal New Jersey–set noirs, The Kill-Off and My New Gun, as well as a panel discussion with Greenwald, Cochran, and other members...

More than 200 works from Winsor McCay, Sally Cruikshank, Tissa David, the Hubleys, and others will be displayed through summer 2027.

Restorations from the Academy Film Archive | Co-presented by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Few American films, and few films in general, feel as tightly composed and alive as Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, which is not only amazingly cohesive for a debut but doubly so for one strung tog...

https://notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/16/pamela-hutchinson-on-the-curse-of-queen-kelly-new-york-sticking-place-books-2025/ “A naughty little number” This is a story of how not to make a film. A story about

Our picks include a hard-hitting drama starring Channing Tatum, a new Australian dramedy featuring Hugo Weaving and The Pitt’s Shabana Azeez, plus a film from a chook’s eye-view

For America's 250th birthday, we look back on Roger's thoughts about some of the most significant movies about the American experience, for good or ill.

To mark Juneteenth, Maya S. Cade chairs a roundtable of Black independent filmmakers  in conversation: Ayoka Chenzira, Bridgett M. Davis and Wendell B. Harris, Jr. reflect on the life and afterlife of...

Bridgett M. Davis is the writer-director behind 'Naked Acts'.

The 145th anniversary of the ballerina reveals an unexpected bond with cinema

An interview with the brilliant Maya Cade, the pioneer behind the Black Film Archive.

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German director Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed was released a century ago in 1926 – and now stands as the world's oldest animated feature film

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Back to the Castro with plenty of rarities and gems. Plus: Tap into Ovid for a wacky 1974 Lithuanian rock opera and more.

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival opens with “Queen Kelly” as it returns to the restored Castro Theatre for its 30th anniversary with a standout lineup.

In this restoration of the silent epic melodrama, Patricia Kelly (Gloria Swanson), a flirtatious girl, captures the eye of Prince Wolfram. Using Erich von Stroheim’s shooting script, this version inco...

Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore nudity on screen.

On episode 151 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter discuss the last film in their Charles Burnett series, The Annihilation of Fish (1999). Welcome back to Directo…

“The Sorrow and the Pity” has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.

The drama THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING (2002) written & directed by best-selling author Sherman Alexie has been released on Blu-ray

Join us for the 17th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival on April 30 – May 3, 2026. You're invited to celebrate gifted and vital artists, innovators and craftsmen who arrived in Hollywood from distant la...