The thing about filmmaker John Sayles is that he has done everything. Do you love Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist? Sayles’ unmade screenplay Night Skies is a piece of the source code for both classics. How about The Big Chill? Sayles’ lovely Return of the Secaucus 7 (which he wrote and […]
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Making his long-awaited return to feature filmmaking after a 12-year absence, Gregg Aaraki was back at Sundance this year to premiere I Want Your Sex, an erotic comedy that brings together Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Charli XCX, Daveed Diggs, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Margaret Cho, and Johnny Knoxville. Picked up by Magnolia Pictures for […]
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Certain beliefs unite all of humanity. Take, for example, the idea that the extraordinary is possible. Or, even more, that the impossible is possible. Steven Spielberg isn’t shy about believing in extraterrestrial life, and he doesn’t think you should be either. He’s so sincere about this aloof-yet-sky-high-stakes concept that he’s returning to it again with […]
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Recently earning the high honors of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Angel Down, author Daniel Kraus’ prior book Whalefall has been adapted for the big screen. Co-written and directed by Brian Duffield, the thriller follows Austin Abrams as a scuba diver who is searching for the remains of his father (Josh Brolin) […]
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Premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and recently stopping by Cannes, it’ll be a remarkable year if there’s a better documentary to arrive than Once Upon a Time in Harlem. An extraordinary time capsule featuring footage the late William Greaves (Symbiopsychotaxiplasm) and his son David Greaves shot of a 1972 party taking place in […]
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Family and belonging structure society to a mythical scale, their symbolic value readily plugged into ideologies categorizing the world into binaries—”us” and “them,” “familiar” and “foreign,” “left” and “right.” Persistent as they are in our collective imagination, these remnants of long-gone purity find new forms in the works of filmmaker Rob Rice. Hailing from Massachusetts, […]
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Alex Vlack’s The Revisionist has all the elements of a great comedy of manners before reverting to something quite obviously foreshadowed in the film’s opening scenes. Perhaps having that context will give some extra gravity upon rewatching, but it’s still a shame the film didn’t stick to what could have been a refreshing satirical character study had […]
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Returning to feature filmmaking five years ago with The Power of the Dog, we’ve been waiting to see when Jane Campion will come back to the big screen. While not a new project, this summer will see the release of a new 4K restoration of her Palme d’Or winner The Piano, starring Holly Hunter, Harvey […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterHistory, Italian Style begins with Visconti’s Senso and The Leopard, films by the Tavianis, and Florestano Vancini’s Liberty on 35mm. Museum of Modern ArtThe exquisitely programmed Universal Westerns begins with multiple films by John Ford, Anthony Mann, Jacques Tourneur, and more. BAMBlack […]
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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 discuss perhaps the most likeable movie star alive: Goldie Hawn! Our B-Sides include: Butterflies Are Free, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, Seems Like […]
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