One of the most acclaimed feature-directing debuts of the last year, Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron premiered at the Locarno Film Festival where it picked up the Best First Feature Award, and will now be arriving this spring from Janus Films. Ahead of an April 17 theatrical release, the first trailer has now landed. Here’s the […]
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan usually takes more than a few years between films as of late, and thus we’ve been waiting to hear what might be next. The Turkish filmmaker has now unveiled his latest feature, following About Dry Grasses, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where Merve Dizdar picked up the Best Actress […]
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Reuniting after 2017’s In the Fade, Fatih Akin and Diane Kruger’s WWII-set drama Amrum premiered to acclaim at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and will now be arriving soon. Also starring Laura Tonke, Jasper Billerbeck, and Lisa Hagmeister, the drama set during the final months of World War II was picked up by Kino Lorber, […]
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In 2022, Charli XCX emblazoned “they don’t build statues of critics” on a custom t-shirt––a little nudge and provocation rather than a knock-down to a great tradition of writing. And they do make (rightly) fawning documentaries about them, with Matty Wishnow’s The Last Critic premiering in SXSW’s Documentary Feature Competition and examining the pioneering music […]
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As far as dumb comedies go, Pizza Movie is a masterclass in throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. It doesn’t always land, but when it does, it really does. This is the latest production from Syracuse, NY-based American High, a company founded on making broad comedies mostly within a repurposed high school […]
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One of the great films of the year, Sho Miyake’s gorgeous, tranquil Two Seasons, Two Strangers picked up the Golden Leopard at Locarno last summer and will now get a U.S. release this April. Set for a North American premiere at New Directors/New Films on April 17 and 19, it’ll then begin its theatrical release […]
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Representing their busiest month in recent memory, June offers nine releases and eleven titles from the Criterion Collection. Perhaps of greatest note are two 4K releases for John Waters (Desperate Living and Hairspray) who, despite all this, still can’t get financing for a new movie. Jafar Panahi’s Palme-winning It Was Just An Accident comes to […]
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Take one step into the world of festivals and you’ll understand that making a movie isn’t just “making a movie.” Even if one has the fortune to get some money for the script they’ve slaved over, get some actors in front of a camera, and survive the labyrinthine editing process, a veritable mountain of tasks […]
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Jane Alexander has one of those careers that seems impossible. Four Academy Award nominations in fourteen years. A Tony Award in 1969 for the Howard Sackler play The Great White Hope. She wrote a book (Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth) and she’s won two Emmys. Criterion is […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA major Agnès Varda retrospective begins; Satyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest continues in a new restoration; a print of Jerry Lewis’ The Bellboy shows on Sunday. Museum of Modern ArtFilms by Kiarostami, Kurosawa, Fassbinder, Kathryn Bigelow, and Bertolucci play on 35mm this weekend as […]
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