We’re heading into fall, which traditionally signals a rush of film festivals and the start of awards season. But due to the pandemic, both will be happening in highly muted forms. Still, new films are coming out, and there are more opportunities to watch older ones than ever! And Hyperallergic has everything you need to keep track of what’s happening with the movies. Enjoy!

From now on, we’ll be starting each month with a special guide to everything noteworthy coming to various streaming platforms. This September, there are restorations of classics by Chantal Akerman and Claire Denis, series on New Taiwanese Cinema and Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a whopping seven works by the genius Marlon Riggs, and more!

The death of Chadwick Boseman stunned us all this past weekend. The 43-year-old actor, best known for playing the likes of James Brown and Jackie Robinson in biopics, and of course Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, had been receiving treatment for colon cancer for four years.

Hakim Bishara reports on a new online petition calling for a Confederate monument in Boseman’s hometown of Anderson, South Carolina to be replaced with a statue of the actor. At the time of this writing, over 50,000 people have signed.

In other news, artist and comedian Lorelei Ramirez has been hosting a live drawing show on Twitch called Art is Easy. On September 17, they’ll be joined by several other comics for a special Citizenship Day edition of the show. Dessane Lopez Cassell has the scoop on the event. Mark your calendar!

Last week, we covered the surprise release of Ai Weiwei’s new film Coronation, about the COVID-19 quarantine in Wuhan. Check out our full take on it, by yours truly. Additionally, Sahar Khraibani writes about documentary photography in Lebanon, and I review a deeply irresponsible new film that speculates about Donald Trump’s mental well-being, which does nothing to combat him while intensifying the stigma surrounding mental illness.

The Nerdwriter is one of the most erudite and measured creators on YouTube, and his new video on Caravaggio is no exception. For the lay viewer, he contextualizes the artist’s life and times, and explains what made him so revolutionary.

Kyle Kallgren’s YouTube series Brows Held Highconsistently delivers some of the best film criticism on the platform. In his latest video, he examines films about the lunar expeditions, as well as space films more generally. Does footage of the moon landing “count” as cinema? Can we think of astronauts as auteurs?

Until we can see you in the theater again, stay safe!