If, like me, your first theatrical experience with a foreign-language film directed by someone other than Mel Gibson was Kung Fu Hustle, a flood of memories are sparked by the news that Criterion will release a 4K edition of Stephen Chow’s movie that is probably as good now as it was to my then-adolescent mind. […]
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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 Kurt Russell! Disney kid-turned-movie star, Russell has established himself over these last seven decades as an intelligent, charming rapscallion. Our B-Sides include […]
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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. American Doctor (Poh Si Teng) Poh Si Teng’s American Doctor is a harrowing, heartbreaking portrait of Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian doctors who are risking their lives to tend to the overwhelming […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageThe Minnellis begins with Cabaret and three by Vincente Minnelli on 35mm; James Gray’s New York features The French Connection; a Kubrick series continues with Dr. Strangelove on 35mm; Lynne Littman’s Testament shows on 35mm this Saturday. BAMFilming Filmmakers presents films […]
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It’s probably a coincidence that one of Hong Sangsoo’s best movies in recent years evokes the title of what’s arguably his masterpiece—or, per our own Nick Newman, one of the greatest films ever made—since the structural similarities start and end at a title. (Black-and-white photography is another overlap, but if we started playing that game […]
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It shouldn’t take much to support the ongoing project of Guy Maddin, but for it, of late, we probably have to thanks Ari Aster. Just two years since Rumours (co-directed with now-regular collaborators Evan and Galen Johnson), Aster and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg returns to work with the Canadian on The Confessions, which is being […]
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It shouldn’t take much to support the ongoing project of Guy Maddin, but for it, of late, we probably have to thanks Ari Aster. Just two years since Rumours (co-directed with now-regular collaborators Evan and Galen Johnson), Aster and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg returns to work with the Canadian on The Confessions, which is being […]
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Pedro Almodóvar has spent more than 45 years making movies about himself without fully flipping the mirror. The provocateur-turned-veteran (and Golden Lion winner for 2024’s The Room Next Door) has dressed his obsessions––desire, motherhood, illness, the movies themselves––in melodrama and technicolor and handed them to others, from the frenzied ensemble of Women on the Verge […]
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The restoration event of the year, recently crossing $4 million at the domestic box office, the definitive, uncensored director’s cut of Ken Russell’s The Devils will now be arriving on 4K UHD on April 20, 2027. The 3-disc Collector’s Edition will include the 4K UHD presentation of the director’s cut as well as all three versions of […]
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Lee Chang-dong has never been in a hurry. The novelist-turned-filmmaker (and one-time South Korean minister of culture) has made just seven features in nearly thirty years; Peppermint Candy, Secret Sunshine, and Burning among the most celebrated, each a patient, piercing portrait of ordinary people pushed to the edge. Needless to say, the eight years since […]
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