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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Museum of Modern Art

As the career-spanning Johnnie To retrospective continues, a Samuel L. Jackson series includes Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Jungle Fever on 35mm.

Bam

A Duras-Akerman double bill plays Sunday.

Film at Lincoln Center

NYFF Revivals continues with films by Robert Bresson, Raymond Depardon, and Clive Barker, Compensation, and more.

Film Forum

A George Stevens retrospective begins; restorations of The Devil, Probably and Lancelot du lac continue; Shane screens on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives

“Kill Yr Landlords” includes work by John Schlesinger, Hal Ashby, and Nikos Papatakis; films by Dovzhenko and Dreyer play in “Essential Cinema.”

Roxy Cinema

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut plays Friday.

Museum of the Moving Image

A Frank Oz retrospective begins; Burden of Dreams and Fitzcarraldo both screen.

Metrograph

Pulp Fiction, There Will Be Blood, The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, Lolita, and...

Anouk Aimee, the French actress who received a best actress Oscar nomination in 1967 for A Man And A Woman, has died aged 92.

Aimee died at her home in Paris. Her death was confirmed by an Instagram post from her daughter Manuela Papatakis, which read, “With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we have great sadness to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée.”

Born Nicole Francoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris in 1932, she made her film debut aged 14 in the role of Anouk in Henri Calef’s The House Under The Sea. She kept the name for her career,...

Anouk Aimee, the French actress who received a best actress Oscar nomination in 1967 for A Man And A Woman, has died aged 92.

Aimee died at her home in Paris. Her death was confirmed by an Instagram post from her daughter Manuela Papatakis, which read, “With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we have great sadness to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée.”

Born Nicole Francoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris in 1932, she made her film debut aged 14 in the role of Anouk in Henri Calef’s The House Under The Sea. She kept the name for her career,...

Next month’s lineup at The Criterion Channel has been unveiled, featuring no shortage of excellent offerings. Leading the pack is a massive, 20-film retrospective dedicated to John Huston, featuring a mix of greatest and lesser-appreciated works, including Fat City, The Dead, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, and Key Largo. (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre will join the series on October 1.)

Also in the lineup is series on the works of Budd Boetticher (specifically his Randolph Scott-starring Ranown westerns), Ephraim Asili, Josephine Baker, Nikos Papatakis, Jean Harlow, Lee Isaac Chung (pre-Minari), Mani Kaul, and Michelle Parkerson.

The sparkling new restoration of La Piscine will also debut, along with Amores perros, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Cate Shortland’s Lore, both Oxhide films, Moonstruck, and much more.

See the full list of August titles below and more on The Criterion Channel.

Abigail Harm,...

The curse of many a female artist has been that despite their brilliance and the longevity of their careers, they are forever linked to their relationships with certain men. Whether they be mentors, lovers, or children, these men take over these women’s relation to the world denying them and their audiences the ability to see their true, whole selves. In Nico, 1988, writer/director Susana Nicchiarelli chronicles the legendary artist’s last two years and her relationship with two men: Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground, with whom she collaborated in one of the most influential albums of the twentieth century, and her son Ari. That only one of these men is portrayed in the film says loads about the central conflict Nicchiarelli explores: when will the world stop defining women based on the actions of men?

We first encounter Nico (Trine Dyrholm) as she prepares to embark on a European tour.

Fritz Lang was born on this day 125 years ago and, to celebrate, Matthew Thrift has drawn up a list of "10 essential films" for the BFI. Also in today's roundup: Claude Chabrol's episodes for the 1980 television series Fantômas, the Chiseler on William Dieterle, Eddie Cantor and Houseley Stevenson, Yorgos Lanthimos on Nikos Papatakis's The Shepherds of Calamity, a wide-ranging interview with D.A. Pennebaker, John Waters on Christmas, a new restoration of Jean-Luc Godard's A Married Woman (1964), David Lynch and Ringo Starr on music and meditation, video essays on Luis Buñuel, remembering Robert Loggia—and more. » - David Hudson...

Fritz Lang was born on this day 125 years ago and, to celebrate, Matthew Thrift has drawn up a list of "10 essential films" for the BFI. Also in today's roundup: Claude Chabrol's episodes for the 1980 television series Fantômas, the Chiseler on William Dieterle, Eddie Cantor and Houseley Stevenson, Yorgos Lanthimos on Nikos Papatakis's The Shepherds of Calamity, a wide-ranging interview with D.A. Pennebaker, John Waters on Christmas, a new restoration of Jean-Luc Godard's A Married Woman (1964), David Lynch and Ringo Starr on music and meditation, video essays on Luis Buñuel, remembering Robert Loggia—and more. » - David Hudson...

Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in TrainwreckPhoto: Universal Pictures With Sundance just wrapping up and Berlin starting up in a few days, we are now immersed in the year-long barrage of film festivals. One such festival in South By Southwest. A few weeks back they announced the first seven films of their program, including the opening night film Brand: A Second Coming. Today, they have revealed the rest of the features to be shown in March (except for the midnight program), and some of it has me very excited. The bigger titles announced do not do much for me. Paul Feig's Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy, and the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart starrer Get Hard leave a lot to be desired in terms of anticipation, as does a work in progress cut of Judd Apatow's latest film Trainwreck. I'm guessing an Apatow work in progress is probably around three and a half hours.

South by Southwest, the multi-faceted film, music and technology festival held annually in Austin, TX will feature such upcoming films as Paul Feig’s Spy, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand profile Brand: A Second Coming as headliners in this year’s film festival lineup.

SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.

Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.

On the small screen,...

Films from former socialist bloc countries swept the awards at the 26th Panorama of European Cinema Festival in Athens.

Alexandra Strelyanaya’s The Sea, a Russian production by Alexey Uchitel, received the best film award.

The film is a sentimental drama with social and environmental overtones set in the Russian Kola peninsula on the North Sea coast.

Class Enemy by Slovenian Rok Bicek, in which students and teachers clash at a high school, received the Fipresci award.

Withering by Milos Pusic, a Serbian-Swedish-Swiss co-production about a young villager’s efforts to escape poverty by emigrating to Switzerland, received the audience award.

A career award was presented to local director Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, back from the UK where his latest The Enemy Within played at the London Film Festival.

Other career awards went to veteran art director Anastasia Arseni and celebrated theatre and film actor Minas Hatzissavas.

The festival, steered by artistic director Ninos Fenek Mikelides, featured more than...

Charismatic nightclub owner and subversive film director

In the years after the second world war, St-Germain-des-Prés, on the left bank of Paris, was a melting pot of intellectual and artistic life. One of the favourite hangouts for the existential and beatnik crowds was the basement nightclub La Rose Rouge in the Rue de Rennes. It was there that Juliette Gréco made her cabaret debut, and Les Frères Jacques performed their mixture of song, humour, dance and mime. Among the audiences were André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian and Miles Davis. Presiding over them all was the club's charismatic owner, Nikos Papatakis, who has died aged 92. He was also renowned for his distinctive contribution to the world of film.

Known as Nico to his friends, Papatakis, a self-styled subversive, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Greek parents. Aged 17, he joined Haile Selassie's army to fight against the...

I've only just now stumbled across the news that the "cinéaste provocateur," as Libération calls him, "friend of Genet, husband of Anouk Aimée, companion to Nico, cabaret owner and Cassavetes producer" Nikos Papatakis died on December 17 at the age of 92. Born in in Addis Ababa to a Greek father and an Abyssinian mother, he "was a soldier in Ethiopia before being forced into exile for having sided with the Emperor Haile Selassie. He fled first to Lebanon and Greece. In 1939, he moved to Paris," where he studied acting and circulated among the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, Jacques Prévert, Robert Desnos and Jean Vilar.