The ten years since Nicolas Winding Refn’s prior theatrical feature was just enough time to activate déjà vu when Her Private Hell debuted at Cannes to a mixed-hostile response. While certain of these reactions (like our own) are well stated and eloquently offered, much else rings perfunctory when few directors still attract stars and financing […]
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Richard Linklater remains prolific enough—if only between his ever-shooting Merrily We Roll Along and planned project on the transcendentalists—that this already has the air of something we only recall by reading a years-old headline and wondering whatever happened there. Nevertheless, it’s nice to read he plans on reteaming with Glen Powell on another baseball movie. […]
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One of the most impressive American indies I’ve seen in the last year sets Free Time and Dad & Step-Dad star Colin Burgess in a surreal comedy. Cory Santilli’s In the Mouth premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and we’re pleased to exclusively announce that Antenna Releasing has picked up the film for a limited […]
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Chris Rock’s first directorial effort in 12 years, Misty Green, was just set for a world premiere at TIFF 2026 and is led by Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, as well as Rock. A24 has now released the first trailer ahead of the debut and October release. Here’s the brief […]
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The question of which modern, living, working auteur most deserves a Criterion box set is not one I honestly wish to pose. (Would you intentionally open that can labeled “Worms”?) But I will suggest a sound logic in the recent anointment of Mike Mills, whose Beginners, 20th Century Women, and C’mon C’mon have been collected […]
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A decade after 13th opened the New York Film Festival, Ava DuVernay’s follow-up documentary 14th will world premiere as the Closing Night selection of the 64th edition. The Netflix-backed feature will be making its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 9, with DuVernay and film participants in attendance, Film at Lincoln Center […]
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As moments for holding your attention go, July 2026 is not making it easy. The first summer World Cup of the TikTok age, much to the awful delight of FIFA, is surely in the running for most-eyeballed event in human history, and with a certain Homeric epic currently commandeering the cinemagoing imagination, you’d be forgiven […]
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A highlight from New Directors/New Films last year, where it made its North American Premiere, Lorena Alvarado’s poetic debut feature Lost Chapters (Los capítulos perdidos) has been picked up by Several Futures for a release this week. The acclaimed Venezuelan film will open Friday, July 24, with an exclusive engagement at the IFC Center in New York City, followed by […]
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Premiering at last year’s Tribeca Festival to much acclaim, Paula González-Nasser’s debut The Scout follows the day in the life of a NYC location scout. With a cast featuring Mimi Davila, Rutanya Alda, Max Rosen, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Sarah Herrman, Alex Goldberg, Peter Mills Weiss, Jackson Devereux, Jesse Ruuttila, Lisa Haas, and Otmara Marrero, the film […]
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Madoka (Marika Itô) is a Shimokitazawa-based playwright putting the finishing touches on her latest work to be performed by her and Shiho’s (Riko Fujitani) troupe at the Good Heavens bar above a Chicago vintage clothing shop. Kazuma’s (Kai Inowaki) band in Sangenjaya is struggling to stay afloat with a lead guitarist (Shintaro Kanamaru’s Mikoshiba) who […]
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