Every Todd Haynes movie—especially when they’re susceptible to last-minute cancellations—is an event and a gift. Thus as we await the overdue, Cannes-likely arrival of De Noche, it’s heartening to know the next-next project is already in motion. Speaking with Le Point, Haynes revealed the project is a take on Jean Genet’s play The Maids that […]
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This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) attracted more than 275,000 visitors across screenings of 315 films (94 of them world premieres) and special events. Guests included Alfonso Cuarón, Michelle Yeoh, Koreeda Hirokazu, Ann Hui, Fan Bingbing, and many more. Headed by Zhang Yimou, the competition jury awarded best film to Majid Majidi’s Midday Meal, […]
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Three generations of women confront grief in The First Taste of Loneliness, the third entry in a trilogy from director Gu You. His debut film, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2019), screened at Cannes. Dwelling by the West Lake followed in 2023. First Taste stars the noted Chinese actor Zhou Xun as Jiang Yue, a […]
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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. The Invite (Olivia Wilde) Small in scale, yet so much greater than the sum of its parts, Wilde conducts her quartet of players to an orchestral performance. She builds […]
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Roxy CinemaA print of Society and live-scored editions of Nosferatu & Vampyr play on Friday; The Guyver, No Picnic, and a print of Freaked screen on Saturday, which brings City Dudes; a shorts program shows on Sunday. Museum of Modern ArtA Sergei Loznitsa retrospective begins this weekend. BAMKen Russell’s reconstructed The Devils continues—read (or listen […]
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In celebration of Criterion’s The Complete Kubrick, we’re publishing a season of features dedicated to the filmmaker’s oeuvre and beyond, going through Criterion’s box set era by era and disc by disc—plus a couple of surprises from the archives. Explore more here and read part one below. Early documentary shorts: Day of the Fight (1951), […]
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Hollywood’s feted genius, chessmaster, international man of mystery; yet a simple Jewish mama’s boy, insatiably curious, who retained his plainspoken Bronx drawl and unconditional adoration of his family and pets to his dying day; across thirteen feature films in just under half a century, the greatest enduring gift of Stanley Kubrick may be his obliteration […]
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Following his lovely debut Columbus and strange, stirring sci-fi tale After Yang, Kogonada entered the big-budget filmmaking arena with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, a misguided romantic fantasy that, despite having its heart in the right place, failed to connect. In an attempt to create something more spontaneous and free from complex studio logistics, he ventured to Hong Kong […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Cannes coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 23. Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize-winning writer and voice of the German resistance from abroad, fled Germany in 1933 to take refuge in California, where he lived for sixteen years before returning to Germany in 1949 […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on October 23 and hits Netflix on November 6. In a year of unknown quantities at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love has delivered the triumph for which fans of the elusive director had been […]
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