Built around a series of conversations in person and online between the filmmaker and her mother, a Belgian Holocaust survivor, No Home Movie is both diaristic and avant-garde, a meditation on family relations, memory, and death in the modern world.

Working with Martin Ritt, one of his favorite directors, Paul Newman plays a hell-raising cowboy with a pink Cadillac who doesn’t get along with his moralistic rancher father. It perhaps Newman’s greatest and most psychologically complex movie of the 1960s.

Dashiell Hammett’s hit novel—about retired private detective Nick, reluctantly pulled back into service, with the help of his keenly perceptive wife, Nora—was adapted into the comic mystery of 1930s Hollywood, kicking off a successful movie franchise to boot.

On May 20 and 21, see David O. Selznick's production of Anthony Hope's popular late 19th-century novel—one of James Wong Howe’s proudest achievements.

One of six collaborations between director Frank Borzage and ace screenwriter Sonya Levien, After Tomorrow united them with James Wong Howe, whose photography brings a sense of moody, stylized drama to this pre-Code, depression-addled love story.

Michael Mann's epic yet minutely observed crime drama, among the greatest works of 1990s Hollywood, screens June 5 on 35mm.

Vincent Sherman’s gritty musical melodrama stars Ida Lupino as Helen, a woman hell-bent on escaping poverty by pushing her sister into marriage with a showman and stage stardom.

James Wong Howe’s first directorial feature dramatizes the formation of the Harlem Globetrotters, and features Sidney Poitier: 5/28 & 6/5.

A return to the lonely intimacy of the director’s earlier features (Thief, Manhunter), the film is a brooding study in disconnection and inhumanity, traced across a weblike urban landscape. Here, a taxi’s dim interior light reveals characters trapped within their own delusions.

A riveting and twisty thriller set in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Fritz Lang’s film is loosely based on the real-life assassination of Reinhard Heydrich—”The Hangman of Prague”—and adapted from a story by Bertolt Brecht.

The infamous, real-life story of the quashing of an explosive 60 Minutes segment on Big Tobacco is the basis of Mann’s most urgent and stirring film.

On May 29, Mann’s revival of the trendy 1980s TV series he helped create, a doubling down on the original’s themes of confused identity, extra-national criminality, and undercover blues.

In this masterful psychological western, Director Raoul Walsh and cinematographer James Wong Howe fill the open landscape of the Southwest with an oppressive dread, while the shadowy interiors hint at the domestic disarray at the heart of the drama.