Film

In the Tom Wolfe classic, the superficial layer revealed everything you needed to know about a person.

Nancy Meyers: Mommy of the Merch.

Coralie Fargeat gives it a go in her film “Revenge,” released in France last year and out on DVD in the United States this week.

In “That Obscure Object of Desire,” sugar daddy Matthieu is confused by the unpredictable affections of his lover, Conchita. But the simplest explanation is often the right one: she has a boyfriend, and Matthieu is just an annoying client.

“Wealth [is] much more than money. [It’s] whatever gave us value; sexuality, branding, even youth.”

This surreal anime has underwear thieves, a psychedelic journey into the night to find a children’s book, and unreasonably powerful school festival organizers—what more could you want?

Don’t get mad, Libras, but you’re Rose Armitage from “Get Out.”

In Fellini’s 1976 film “Casanova,” the granddaddy of all fuckboys meets his match in a seductive automaton.

The Hollywood adaption of Gore Vidal’s controversial 1968 novel with a trans heroine is screening in LA for one night only as part of a queer cinema festival.

In Rediscovery, GARAGE trains its eye on a creator who has hitherto been lost to the sands of time. This week: the flamer magic of radical auteur Jack Smith.

Michelle Latimer and Laura Ortman collaborated on a hybrid screening-performance that explored the contested, abused, but fully alive landscape of Standing Rock.

A retrospective of Jane Fonda films reminds us that the actor contradicts herself—and very well.