Presenting our 2025 Mavericks of Hollywood cover star, #LeonardoDiCaprio. #OneBattleAfterAnother marks the actor’s first film with writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, who also photographed and interviewed him for Esquire. 🔗: bit.ly/4mdKJJM

The one, great, op-ed taboo (cc: Kathleen Kingsbury) is mining this critical data point for a single insight that will inevitably contradict the GenX marketing concept we’ve comfortably slept upon for all these years.

Over 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 moon 👏🏼 to have Chuck Collins of Wealth Hoarders (Polity) and Born on Third Base (Chelsea Green Publishing) join us next Thursday for a director’s talk following a 7pm screening of Justin Schein’s Death and Taxes! westnewtoncinema.com/movie/death-an…

This talk will be moderated by Gilbert Metcalf (Tufts & MIT).

BFI BLACK GIRL (Ossie Davis) | New York Premiere of Newly Restored 35mm Print Ossie Davis’s vibrant and fiercely honest third feature, adapted from J. E. Franklin’s popular off-Broadway play, stars Peggy Pettitt as Billie Jean, a misunderstood young Black woman attempting to build a

BFI UCLA Film & Television Archive The Film Foundation CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE? (Henry Jaglom) | World Premiere of New 4K Restoration The Upper West Side comes to life in actor-director Henry Jaglom’s freewheeling and dryly comedic fourth feature, in which Karen Black plays a middle-aged woman who forges a topsy-turvy romance with

BFI UCLA Film & Television Archive The Film Foundation Hope Runs High Vinegar Syndrome DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray) | U.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration Among Satyajit Ray’s crowning achievements—albeit one ripe for reappreciation—DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST is an astonishing, fully dimensional portrait of a generation of young Indian men

BFI UCLA Film & Television Archive The Film Foundation Hope Runs High Vinegar Syndrome Film Heritage Foundation Janus Films Golden Globe Foundation Criterion Collection OMBRES DE SOIE (Mary Stephen) | World Premiere of New 2K Restoration Suffused with alluring atmospherics and a slight air of the oneiric, Hong Kong-born (and future Éric Rohmer editor) Mary Stephen’s debut feature evocatively traces the uncertain relationship between two Chinese

BFI UCLA Film & Television Archive The Film Foundation Hope Runs High Vinegar Syndrome Film Heritage Foundation Janus Films Golden Globe Foundation Criterion Collection Library and Archives Canada MORTU NEGA (Flora Gomes) | U.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration A structurally fascinating and texturally engrossing meditation on revolution, Flora Gomes’s pioneering debut feature follows a wounded soldier’s devoted wife as she heads to battle to be with her husband during the

BFI UCLA Film & Television Archive The Film Foundation Hope Runs High Vinegar Syndrome Film Heritage Foundation Janus Films Golden Globe Foundation Criterion Collection Library and Archives Canada Cineteca di Bologna Milestone FIlms Kino Lorber EastmanMuseum THE RAZOR'S EDGE (Jocelyne Saab) | U.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration Set amid the Lebanese Civil War, Jocelyne Saab’s fiction feature, which centers on the bond formed between a fortysomething painter and a teenager who grew up in war-torn Beirut, is a striking meditation on

BFI UCLA Film & Television Archive The Film Foundation Hope Runs High Vinegar Syndrome Film Heritage Foundation Janus Films Golden Globe Foundation Criterion Collection Library and Archives Canada Cineteca di Bologna Milestone FIlms Kino Lorber EastmanMuseum Cinémathèque suisse ROBERT WILSON AND THE CIVIL WARS (Howard Brookner) | North American Premiere of New Restoration Howard Brookner’s thorough, compulsively watchable documentary follows theater artist Robert Wilson (who died in July at age 83) as he sets out to create an epic 12-hour opera, a

BFI UCLA Film & Television Archive The Film Foundation Hope Runs High Vinegar Syndrome Film Heritage Foundation Janus Films Golden Globe Foundation Criterion Collection Library and Archives Canada Cineteca di Bologna Milestone FIlms Kino Lorber EastmanMuseum Cinémathèque suisse SHOLAY (DIRECTOR'S CUT) (Ramesh Sippy) U.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration The biggest action-adventure film ever made in India, Ramesh Sippy’s towering 1975 “Curry Western” is a delirious four-course meal of action, musical numbers, Indian cinema’s most iconic actors, and

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Two remarkable pieces out on the FDA. Politico has a story linking Susie Wiles to the decision to reverse Prasad's ouster and the The Wall Street Journal has a remarkably deep editorial slamming Makary for a slowdown in approvals -- something the Journal finds repugnant. Prasad also comes in for