Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Ma more »
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. more »
Ten-year-old Aurora asks a hit man to kill the monster she believes ate her entire family. To protect her, he'll need to battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting the fact that some monsters are real. more »
A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin. more »
A powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. more »
Playwright Martin McDonagh first flashed his potential staying power as a filmmaker with this crime-flick pass on Waiting for Godot. Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell play two hitmen hiding out in the title Belgian tourist burg after a botched job and sightseeing until fate reveals itself. One expects depth and delight from Glee more »
An American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. He rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the beauty of human connection. more »
An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art. more »
Canadian filmmaker Bob Clark’s oeuvre somehow spans A Christmas Story, Porky’s, and this proto-slasher classic. A bunch of college girls played by pushing-30 actresses (headlined by Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder) are stalked by an obscene-phone-calling psycho as Yuletide draws near. Clark’s use of POV killer-cam broke ground a more »
In 1977, a technology expert flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the refuge he seeks. more »
70+ artists joined family and fans at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in Oct 2022 for two nights, celebrating John Prine's life and music. more »
Michael Caine tears into the role of the miserable Ebenezer Scrooge as if he never noticed that most of his co-stars were made of felt—sneering, glowering, and groveling like an Oscar was on the line. As such, the Muppets’ version of Dickens’ classic tale is no joke, though, of course, there are plenty of jokes. 1992 Brian Hens more »
A feminist treatise and a crime yarn and a Christmas movie and a John Waters film? Yes, it’s everything we always wanted all in one untidy package. Divine’s troubled teen goes astray, gives birth, goes mad, goes showbiz, and gets the chair. Even with all that, Waters regular Mink Stole nearly steals every scene she’s in. -Lee Ga more »
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. more »
William Powell ditches his usual urbane trappings to play an unhoused man who meets a family of ritzy ditzes and lands a job as their new butler. Will he and most adorable ditz Carole Lombard fall for each other despite the apparent class chasm? Have you ever seen a screwball comedy before? The plot stretches credulity like taff more »
Lightning and Thunder, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act, experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together. more »
Arguably the best Shakespeare adaptation ever put onscreen. Akira Kurosawa couldn’t rely on the Bard’s iambs when transposing Macbeth to feudal Japan, but he created visuals of competing richness—blanketing mists, lunar plains, tangled thickets, a Noh witch, flights of fateful arrows. Toshiro Mifune’s intensity embodies the usur more »
One of the great live bands of the late 20th century hit the stage with a show designed to make the most of their prowess, add to the impact of the performance, and distract the least from the musicians and songs. They got one of the best and most adaptable directors of the era to film it. Together, they created one of the top f more »
Woody Allen’s Woody Allen shtick hasn’t aged well, to say the least, but you’re really here for the late Diane Keaton, right? In truth, she only embodies the title caricature—big hat, menswear, gawky demeanor, bad driver—for a few minutes here. Otherwise, she’s a remarkably three-dimensional character who, as more »
Hailed as the most successful exhibition in Tate Modern’s history, and equally popular at MoMA New York, audiences are invited to enjoy an intimate, behind-the-scenes documentary about this once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster exhibition with expert contributions from those that knew Matisse as well as curators, historians, Tate direc more »
As their marriage unravels, Alex faces middle age and divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene. Meanwhile, his wife Tess confronts sacrifices made for their family, forcing them to navigate co-parenting and identities. more »
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cine more »
As Spike is inducted into Jimmy Crystal's gang on the mainland, Dr. Kelson makes a discovery that could alter the world. A sequel to 2025's 28 Years Later. more »
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition. more »
Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events. more »
From the Director: I think it’s fair to say that the group of artists working in late 19th-century Paris and that we call ‘the Impressionists’ are the most popular group in art history. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro, Caillebotte and others. Yet in their own lifetimes they knew poverty and reje more »
Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. He is rightfully known as the father of Impressionism. It was a dramatic path that Pissarro followed, and throughout it all he wrote extensively to his family. It is through these intimate and revealing letters that this gripping film reveals Pissarro’s life and work. more »
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide on March 21 as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love- more »
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, more »
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is more »
Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favorite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition On Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience - is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and more »
On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a r more »
