Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alfreda’s Cinema offers a case study of political and public violence in this timely program featuring John Akomfrah’s Handsworth Song and Miguel Secades’s A Square is Born.

When Shelley Duvall passed away earlier this year, the world mourned one of the most unique presences in film history. This program provides further evidence of her onscreen effervescence and remarkable range.

Writer-director Payal Kapadia won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this revelatory feature debut, exploring the light, lives, and textures of contemporary working-class Mumbai.

Daniel Craig stars in a lush, evocative screen adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s subversive novella, directed by Luca Guadagnino.

Shot in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centers on a family thrust into the public eye when a newly appointed investigating judge in Tehran grows paranoid and distrustful.

In RaMell Ross’s extraordinary realization of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, two Black teenagers become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow–era Florida

Paul Williams stars as an unscrupulous producer who steals the music of a hapless songwriter, who retaliates by haunting the impresario’s concert hall, in Brian De Palma’s over-the-top comedy-horror musical.

Godfrey Reggio’s remarkable symphony of image and sound charts our growing alienation from nature, featuring an original score by Phillip Glass.

Nicole Kidman portrays a high-powered CEO who puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern in this erotic thriller by Dutch director Halina Reijn.

Robert Eggers offers a richly atmospheric new take on F. W. Murnau’s silent classic about a German vampire obsessed with a haunted young woman, starring Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, and Willem Dafoe.