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Latest Highlights
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Tribeca Festival June 3-14
Tribeca at 25: The one NYC fest offering 118 new movies—for openers! Your critic’s first salute in Tribeca’s 25th is…
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‘Fjord’, a Masterclass in Film Manipulation
This year’s Palme d’Or winner, “Fjord,” directed by Cristian Mungiu, is one of the most incendiary films I have seen…
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‘L’Abandon’ (Forsaken) Review: Can a Movie Shed its Money?
On my fifth day at the Cannes International Film Festival, a woman approached me to ask if I had seen…
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Interview with Director Katharina Rivilis Following Cannes Premiere of ‘I’ll Be Gone in June’
Away from the clamour of the Cannes Competition, the festival’s Un Certain Regard section offers a space for films that…
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Open Roads Italian Festival May 28-June 4
Lincoln Center’s 25th Italian fest proves eternal cinema themes endure for eternity Dollar for dollar, year after year, Lincoln Center…
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A complex liminal space in ‘All the Lovers in the Night’
Director Yukiko Sode premiered her fourth feature, “All the Lovers in the Night,” at the Cannes International Film Festival last…
Editors’ Picks
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New Directors/New Films April 8-19
In a world where most film directors start by making shorts, just one New York fest shows them all to…
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Rendez-Vous With French Cinema – March 5-15
Unifrance serves up a delicious new edition of art cinema to Film at Lincoln Center patrons Surprises galore pop up…
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Staff Picks: The Stories of Immigrants
Following recent disturbing events in which American Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue to violently target peaceful immigrants and U.S. citizens…
