Richard Brody

celebrates its landmark fortieth anniversary by bringing a wide and wondrous array of free shows to more than a dozen parks across the five boroughs, including Central Park.

Adam Pinney made his new movie for an estimated five hundred dollars, and cast his own wife and kids.

“Disclosure Day,” a tale of aliens on Earth and the coverup of their presence, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is a catalogue of Steven Spielberg’s obsessions, and a deeply personal vision.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

To an eleven-year-old Richard Brody, recently transplanted into a Long Island suburb, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 hit “Bad Moon Rising” sounded like it came from somewhere distant, deep, and haunted.

The first tarot cards, from fifteenth-century Italy, were, essentially, playing cards.

“Couture,” starring Angelina Jolie as a movie director, treats the Paris fashion world as a backdrop for medical and domestic crises.

Before he had any interest in movies, Rohmer was a writer, and his 1946 début is a fine-grained vision of small-town lives in prewar France.

Also: France in Westchester at Caramoor, a taut “Henry VI,” Djo's pop-rock spark, and more.

The documentarian Ross McElwee’s new feature is an anguished reflection on the life and death of his son, Adrian, who was a frequent subject of his films.