‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair - Global Film Festival’ June 1st - 30th 🩶

This year, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ expands to 73 cities across 8 countries including the U.S. & Puerto Rico, Canada, England, Scotland, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, + Chile.
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What’s Cooler Than Cool: Michael Almereyda’s Vampire Tale <i>Nadja</i> with Elina Löwensohn NADJA  (Michael Almereyda, USA, 1994,  93 minutes)  The essence of 1990s cool, Michael Almereyda's black and white mood piece infuses German...

I wrote about Michael Almereyda's richly atmospheric 1994 mood piece Nadja, which looks fantastic in its new 4K restoration from @arbelosfilms.bsky.social. It opens in Seattle today at the Beacon Cinema. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

'Nadja' 4K Restoration Director's Cut Is A Visually Stunning B&W Vampire Film - Deepest Dream Review of "Nadja," a Black and White Vampire Film directed by Michael Almereyda that has received a 4K Restoration Director's Cut version.

‘Nadja’ 4K Restoration Director’s Cut is a visually stunning B&W vampire film.
It is now playing through February 12th at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social
For other Nadja screening dates, go to @arbelosfilms.bsky.social
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NADJA screens this week at BAM (New York), Sie Filmcenter (Denver), The Beacon (Seattle), and Cinéma Moderne (Montréal)! arbelosfilms.com/films/nadja/

“I Still Feel Like an Outcast”: Michael Almereyda on Nadja, Peter Fonda, David Lynch’s Fantômas, and Zero K Could a director be best-known for what's hardly been seen in 30-plus years? Notwithstanding the superb, modernized Hamlet—itself in less-than-prime circulation until a forthcoming Janus Films rerelea...

Michael Almereyda talks to Nick Newman about Nadja, now playing in a restored director's cut, and the patronage of David Lynch and Mary Sweeney:

NYC Weekend Watch: Nadja, Seoul After Dark, Tenement Stories & More NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMMichael Almereyda's vampire film Nadja debuts in a long-overdue 4K restoration that plays daily. Watch an exclusive clip below: Muse...

Michael Almereyda’s vampire film Nadja debuts in a long-overdue 4K restoration, and more films to see in NYC this weekend.

In ‘Nadja,’ Dracula’s Daughter Goes Downtown

"This triumph of low-budget filmmaking will shimmer for a week at Brooklyn Academy of Music." - J. Hoberman, @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/m...

A wonderful conversation with NADJA director Michael Almereyda and star Elina Löwensohn, featuring never-before-seen onset photographs by Tim Davis. New 4K restorations opens BAM Feb 6th! www.bam.org/film/2026/na...

Michael Almereyda’s acclaimed cult film returns in a new 4K restoration of the director’s cut. Opens Friday at BAM with Q&As Friday and Saturday! t.co/YeGs6RPhfa

Snakes and Dancers: on shelves and screens this month • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine From Filipino macho dancers to Hong Kong green snakes, this month’s edition of Shelf Life takes you through a straight story to heaven and beyond.

From Filipino macho dancers to Hong Kong green snakes, this month’s edition of Shelf Life from Katie Rife takes you through a straight story to heaven and beyond. boxd.it/2X8

Happy Birthday, David Lynch: Watch the New Trailer for ‘Nadja,’ the Vampire Movie He Executive-Produced in 1994 Watch the trailer for Michael Almereyda's 'Nadja,' executive-produced by David Lynch and featuring a cameo by the late filmmaker.

Watch the trailer for Michael Almereyda's 'Nadja,' executive-produced by David Lynch and featuring a cameo by the late filmmaker.

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026: the great cinematic poet of despair, whose movies were as rigorously bleak as they were paradoxically invested in the infinite value of every human life. The Kafka of motion pictures. Thread of images from his masterpiece Damnation (1988).

Béla Tarr (1955 – 2026)

RIP to an uncompromising, master filmmaker. We were beyond honored to collaborate with him on the massive 4K restoration of SÁTÁNTANGÓ, and distribution of DAMNATION. He'll be dearly missed, even as his work continues to speak volumes.

"Films by Nina Menkes" series is now streaming on
Metrograph At Home! watch.metrograph.com/films-by-nin...

Art by Sam Smith.

Thrilled to premiere the new NADJA restoration poster with
Posteritati! U.S. premiere January 16th at MoMA's Save and Project. Opening NYC February 6th at BAM.

To Save and Project: The 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation | MoMA Film series. Jan 8–Feb 2, 2026. MoMA presents the 22nd annual edition of To Save and Project, an international festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved film treasures from archives, studios, ...

Catch the director's cut of Michael Almereyda's NADJA in a stunning new 4K restoration on January 11th. U.S. premiere! www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

Our annual Black Friday sale has arrived! Storewide discounts up to 50% off. Sale ends Monday at 11:59PM PST. shoparbelosfilms.com

🚨 DVR/Viewing Alert: CHAMELEON STREET airing at 2a Eastern tonight/Sunday morning. This is a genius film about a real-life Michigan con man, directed by Wendell B. Harris, who still hasn't really gotten his due ^PG #TCMParty

Wendell B. Harris Jr.'s electric and masterful dark comedy CHAMELEON STREET returns to @tcmtv.bsky.social
November 1st at 11pm Pacific / November 2nd at 2am Eastern. Tune in! tcm.com/schedule

Björk's big screen debut THE JUNIPER TREE screens Tuesday at Nitehawk Williamsburg

4K restoration presented by @thefofif.bsky.social

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025 The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Our new 4K restoration of Michael Almereyda's striking postmodern vampire tale NADJA will have its world premiere tonight at @tiffnet.bsky.social! A Grasshopper Film / Arbelos co-release.

‘Nadja,’ from Michael Almereyda and EP David Lynch, Gets 4K Director’s Cut from Grasshopper Film and Arbelos Michael Almereyda's 1994 hit 'Nadja,' produced by the late David Lynch, will release a director's cut in 4K by Grasshopper Films.

We're thrilled to be partnering with Grasshopper Film
to bring Michael Almereyda's stunning and singular NADJA to @tiffnet.bsky.social for its 4K restoration world premiere! Thanks to @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy for breaking the news!
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The new restoration of Robina Rose’s NIGHTSHIFT begins Friday. Over the course of a single night, a West London hotel clerk observes a parade of punk rockers, businessmen, and magicians. Essentially unseeable for decades, Rose’s film is a brilliant, surreal dreamscape. www.trylon.org/film/night-s...

The Sealed Soil - NEW RESTORATION The earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili’s The Sealed Soil chronicles a young woman’s resistance to her forced marriage, a rebellion quickly misinterpret...

Marva Nabili's THE SEALED SOIL is a quiet masterpiece from pre-revolution Iran. The earliest surviving film by an Iranian woman, it screens next Wednesday (7/23) at Drexel University's URBN Annex (3401 Filbert St.)

Wayne Wang, an icon of indie cinema, blends genre experimentation with sharp political insight in this new hosted label release from @arbelosfilms.bsky.social . The Limited Edition golden slipcover is only available through our site, so don't miss out!

Now streaming on Metrograph At Home! tinyurl.com/3ahnjrjb

One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, Marcell Jankovics's SON OF THE WHITE MARE is now available to buy or rent on AppleTV and Amazon: apple.co/4kxZeXt%20 / www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...

From: Son of the White Mare (1981), dir. Marcell Jankovics, Pannonia Film Studio