America’s Largest Documentary Festival – Nov. 8-26
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New York Film Festival September 29–October 13
Film at Lincoln Center knows its audiences. Christian Petzold’s Afire (2023), a German drama of wildfires setting an entire forest…
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Neglecting the necessary: Was Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Notes’ an apolitical letdown?
With a body of work that varies from short films told from the point of view of a motel bed…
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‘The Match’: When a good film falls short of greatness
“The Match”, a charged and dynamic Argentine soccer documentary following the 1986 World Cup game between Argentina and England, premiered…
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Paweł Pawlikowski’s striking Cannes standout, ‘Fatherland’
Postwar Europe is nothing new for Polish “Fatherland” writer and director Paweł Pawlikowski. Known best for “Cold War” and “Ida,”…
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Don’t Watch Yourself, Watch the Movie: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’
Jane Schoenbrun isn’t one for subtlety. Although their sophomore breakthrough “I Saw The TV Glow” was derided by some for…
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Caretaking and Friendship Intertwine In the Stunning Drama ‘All of a Sudden’
“All of a Sudden” is the third film from Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi to compete in The Cannes Film Festival…
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‘The Meltdown’: How Should a Missing Person’s Story End?
The “missing persons” subgenre of film is a strange one — repetitive at times, nearly impossible to perfect, yet often…
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‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach,’ made by, for and about John Travolta
Flaunting a skin-tight beret and suspicious beard, John Travolta walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday…
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Cannes First Impressions
After nearly 20 hours of travel and a nine-hour time difference — including a red-eye flight where none of my…
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Leather, blood and business men: Inside the head of Izzy Chavez (EXTENDED CUT)
Some artists give power to their viewers, leaving parts of their work up to interpretation — this is not the…
