Spanning everything from Hollywood blockbusters and screwball comedy to ghost stories, procedural thrillers, the essay film, structural experiments, and text cinema, Bibliomania traces the many ways artists have transformed the taciturn labor of reading and research into cinema.

Winner of the Silver Bear at the 1993 Berlinale and newly restored in 4K, the great Burkinabé writer-director Idrissa Ouédraogo’s Samba Traoré remains one of the decisive works of African cinema.

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 Maggie Greenwald, Stacy Cochran, and other members of Missing Movies to raise awareness about the organization’s ongoing work.

Inspired by the true story of a “fake” invention, Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s Chronovisor follows a Columbia professor deep into a Borgesian labyrinth of textual clues pointing to a time-travel device rumored to have been suppressed by the Vatican.

Frequently hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made, František Vláčil’s staggering medieval epic, shot in stark widescreen black and white, plunges into the blood-soaked borderlands of 13th-century Bohemia amid the uneasy transition from paganism to Christianity.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately, meticulously composed period drama, set in 16th-century Japan, is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones.

In Kent Jones’s marvelously witty second feature, a once-upon-a-time New York poet (Willem Dafoe) gets an ego boost when he is welcomed into the world of an emerging literary salon, but must reckon with the authenticity of his newfound circle of twentysomething admirers.

The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning series Met Opera: Live in HD is back for the 2026-2027 season. Experience operas live from the stage of the Metropolitan at the Walter Reade Theater—specially equipped with high definition screens and surround sound!