Movie Beginnings: “Touch of Evil,” Directed by Welles

The camera begins on a close-up of a ticking bomb and then pulls back to present the bomb’s journey to detonation via an array of camera positions

Chronology of Water, The (2025): Kristen Stewart’s Feature Directing Debut–Preview

Based on Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 bestselling memoir, the film stars Imogen Poots as the author at various points in her life, as the story “drifts in the water of Lidia’s memories.”

Secret Agent: Hitchcock’s Thriller, Inspired by Maugham’s Stories, Starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre

Hitchcock’s Secret Agent is a loose adaptation of Maugham’s short stories, “The Traitor” and “The Hairless Mexican,” starring John Gielgud.

Blood Feast (1963): Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Crude Horror

Herschell Gordon Lewis, the crude schlockmeister indie director, largely made movies for young viewers in drive-in theaters.

Cinema 2025: “After the Hunt,” Luca Guadagnino’s New Thriller, Starring Julia Roberts

New films by Desplechin, Fatih Akin, Julia Ducournau, Guadagnino, Nicolas Winding Refn.