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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA series of rare Korean cinema is on display in Celluloid Fever, featuring films by Kim Ki-young and Im Kwon-taek. Film ForumA retrospective of Max and Richard Fleischer runs the gamut from children’s cartoons to gritty thrillers; Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima conitnues screening in a new restoration; a program […]

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“We feel like this is just the start now, you see? I feel like nothing happened before today.” –– John Lennon It’s strange that Yoko Ono isn’t mentioned in the title of John Lennon: The Last Interview, given that she’s part of the conversation, but I suppose they couldn’t have called it “The Last Interview” […]

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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we talk about a truly underrated star: Laurence Fishburne! Our B-Sides include: Bad Company, Fled, Hoodlum, and Biker Boyz. Conor and guest host Mitchell Beaupre […]

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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Arco (Ugo Bienvenu) With his debut feature, Arco, Ugo Bienvenu puts a unique, thought-provoking twist on the solarpunk genre. He gives us a glimpse of the sort of sustainable utopia […]

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Oscar-winning director Daniel Roher says he lost his artistic inspiration after Navalny‘s victory. I don’t think that’s necessarily a surprise, to hit peak success in your industry and wonder what comes next. That’s when he met a Los Angeles piano tuner named Peter White to light a spark. While one might assume that would lead […]

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The parting image in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless was a woman in a tracksuit with the word “RUSSIA” printed over it running on a treadmill—a pointed metaphor for a country on a road to nowhere. The film came out in 2017, sandwiched between the start of the war on Donbas and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine; […]

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In 1858, pre-Freud times, a castle in the Yorkshire moors of Northern England by the name of Ensor House becomes the new dwelling place for young governess Winifred Notty (Maika Monroe, on a horror streak from Longlegs). What awaits her is a predictably stilted family of huge wealth, the Pounds, comprising Mrs. Pounds (Ruth Willson), […]

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In Ira Sachs’ last film, Peter Hujar’s Day, the director used a rigorous framing device––a purposefully banal interview that took place in 1974 between the eponymous New York photographer and the writer Linda Rosenkrantz––as a way of opening a window onto Hujar’s life and creative process. The director returns to Cannes with The Man I […]

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After a surprise tease at the Super Bowl, we’ve been waiting to hear when Netflix would share more about David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth, the Quentin Tarantino-scripted continuation of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, centered on Brad Pitt’s character. They have now unveiled Fincher’s next feature will be coming to IMAX theaters […]

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László Nemes began his career on a mountaintop that he’s struggled to scale ever since. Son of Saul was the rare first film that not only premiered in competition at Cannes but took home the Grand Prix (the first ever debut to do so) and carried influence all the way to the Academy Awards nine […]

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