Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Locarno coverage. The film opens on June 24. Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the excitement for that which doesn’t exist. That’s a good way of thinking about the cinema […]
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With the bevy of films NEON brought to Cannes Film Festival this year, it’s no surprise some of them will be rolling out in theaters starting this summer. On July 24 (the same day the distributor will release Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell), they will debut Hirokazu Koreeda’s Sheep in the Box in U.S. […]
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In 1973, Variety declared John Waters’ breakthrough film Pink Flamingos “one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.” In 2022, that same film received a Blu-ray release from the arbiters of official film culture at the Criterion Collection. From underground provocateur to national treasure with a star on the Hollywood Walk of […]
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While he can soon be heard in the next Minions movie, Jesse Eisenberg’s major cinematic contribution of the year is his third directorial feature, following up 2024’s Oscar-winning A Real Pain. The Debut, which stars Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu, Colton Ryan, Lilli Cooper, Maulik Pancholy, and Bernadette Peters, will be […]
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Nobody has ever quite treated images as a building block of narrative and mood like Otar Iosseliani, though you’re forgiven for having no sense of this. A favorite of those who attend the repertory sections of international festivals, the Georgian filmmaker has long been one of world cinema’s well-kept secrets. It’s with some bittersweet appreciation, […]
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One year on from their Wes Anderson set, the Criterion Collection will debut arguably their most ambitious release this decade: a career-spanning, all-4K Stanley Kubrick retrospective arriving on October 20. Comprising 30—yes, thirty—discs across UHD and Blu-ray editions, it collates previously issued editions of Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon; upgrades Paths of Glory, The […]
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This year’s Cannes Classics selection was no small thing, yet one object loomed larger than any other (while making a rather formidable start for Warner’s new Clockwork label). Granted a 4K restoration and screening in Ken Russell’s long-obscured cut, The Devils arrives stateside on October 16. Ahead of the 1971 film’s 2026 homecoming (seemingly marketed […]
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Now in its 10th edition, the Nitrate Picture Show—held at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York—is becoming the closest thing American cinephiles have to a pilgrimage. Every year it feels as if half of New York’s film community, out of sheer love for the medium, flocks upstate to catch the dozen-odd rare prints […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMA 35mm-heavy Masahiro Shinoda retrospective has begun. Museum of Modern ArtThe expertly programmed Universal Westerns continues with two by Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher in 3D. Film at Lincoln CenterHistory, Italian Style continues with Vincere, The Conformist, and Love and Anarchy on 35mm. Museum of […]
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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. André Is an Idiot (Tony Benna) There is an unbridled honesty to André Is an Idiot that is admirable, even if all of it doesn’t really work. It’s a simple, stark subject for a […]
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