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‘Winter Kills’ Returns in New Print at Film Forum

Part black comedy, part paranoid thriller, the 1979 movie returns after four decades in a new 35 mm print at Film Forum.

‘The Mother and the Whore’: A Threesome and Then Some

Jean Eustache’s digitally restored 1973 film, now at Lincoln Center, is part of a full retrospective of his work.

‘Force of Circumstance’ Comes to MoMA

Liza Béar’s deadpan anti-thriller returns to the Museum of Modern Art for a limited engagement.

‘The Oak’: A Post-Communist Pinwheel

Lucian Pintilie’s newly restored mad farce, now at Film Forum, paved the way for the Romanian new wave.

‘Lumière’: An Actress Destined to Be in the Light

Jeanne Moreau’s first film as a director is showing for a week at Film Forum, newly restored and seven minutes longer than its 1976 U.S....

‘Chocolat’: What France Knew

Newly restored, Claire Denis’s quasi-autobiographical “Chocolat,” a child’s-eye view of French colonialism, is austere yet vivid.

Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94

He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often contentious) films like “Wavelength.”

‘The Wounded Man’: Dark Night, Lost Soul

In its unflinching depiction of a French teenager’s violent gay awakening, this 1983 film is among Patrice Chéreau’s most confrontational works.

‘Millennium Mambo’: A Lush, Mysterious Tale From Taipei

A 4K restoration of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s thrumming, visually bold movie about a self-destructive club girl retains its capital-L look.

Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76

She took home, to Ohio, a 2019 Oscar for “American Factory,” and in a long career teaching and making films, she paid special attention to...