J. Hoberman
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‘Pressure’: The ‘Mean Streets’ of Brixton
Newly restored, Horace Ové’s film about a Trinidadian family in London makes a triumphant return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
‘Time of the Heathen’: Postwar Life and Death, an American Tale
Newly excavated and restored, Peter Kass’s 1961 movie, full of trippy distortions and grim associations, gets its first New York run at Film at Lincoln...
‘Man’s Castle’: Free Love, Hard Times
Restored to its original length and screening at the Museum of Modern Art, this 1933 movie starring Spencer Tracy feels at once surprisingly frank and...
‘Classe Tous Risques’: Bromance in the Dark
Claude Sautet’s 1960 existential buddy adventure opens Friday at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration.
‘Lumumba: Death of a Prophet’: Revisiting a Mythic Figure
The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly...
‘Not a Pretty Picture’: A Director’s Unflinching Response to Trauma
Anthology Film Archives is screening a new 4K restoration of Martha Coolidge’s 1976 docudrama about date rape.
‘Household Saints’ at IFC Center: An Italian American Tale
Nancy Savoca’s 1993 film, a mystical, multigenerational Italian American family saga, opens for a revival run at IFC Center.
‘Alphaville’: A Film That Feels Brand-New
Jean-Luc Godard’s hard-boiled sci-fi movie from 1965 returns in a restored version at IFC Center.
‘Young Soul Rebels,’ Isaac Julien’s 1991 Drama, Lands at IFC
A newly restored print of Isaac Julien’s 1991 politically minded musical drama opens Oct. 20 at the IFC Center.
‘Fear and Desire’: Kubrick’s First War
Stanley Kubrick’s called his first feature, which is getting a new run at Metrograph, “boring and pretentious.” Instead, it is a revelation.