The documentary Black Zombie (which I also reviewed) marks director Maya Annik Bedward’s feature debut. In the film, Bedward examines how the cinematic zombie has its roots in the Haitian Vodou faith, even though the original term refers to a live person […]
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Christian Petzold was born in Hilden, Germany in 1960. After studying theater at the Free University of Berlin, he attended the German Film and Television Academy Berlin from 1988 to 1994. He directed his first feature in 1995, Pilots. His films […]
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In contemporary arthouse cinema, the line between score and sound design is often very blurry, but rarely is it navigated with as much familial intuition as in the work of composer Giorgi Koberidze. Following his work on his brother Alexandre […]
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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Stormbound movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If you’ve seen movies like the 1996 Twister and/or its sequel, the 2024 Twisters, […]
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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Phoenix Jones: The Rise and Fall of a Real-Life Superhero movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With […]
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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are an American filmmaking duo whose partnership spans over two decades. Boden, originally from Newton, Massachusetts, developed a love of movies, English literature, and photography at a young age. She discovered filmmaking as a medium […]
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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Phoenix Jones: The Rise and Fall of a Real-Life Superhero movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With […]
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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are an American filmmaking duo whose partnership spans over two decades. Boden, originally from Newton, Massachusetts, developed a love of movies, English literature, and photography at a young age. She discovered filmmaking as a medium […]
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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Black Zombie movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Born in 1924, the great Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight […]
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(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check out Matt Delman’s Miroirs No. 3. movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The filmmaker behind my […]
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