Coming to SXSW this year with Their Town (our review here), Katie Aselton’s previous feature Magic Hour, which premiered at the festival last year, will now be getting a theatrical release beginning this summer. Written by Aselton and her husband, Mark Duplass, the drama stars the director, Daveed Diggs, Brad Garrett, and Susan Sullivan. Greenwich […]
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For fifteen years now, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid has thoughtfully crafted blistering and incisive films about the incompetency, hypocrisy, criminality, and veritable shame of his home state in modern times, a place he’s long since abandoned for a life in Paris based on the feeling that he was born in a country he never belonged […]
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For fifteen years now, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid has thoughtfully crafted blistering and incisive films about the incompetency, hypocrisy, criminality, and veritable shame of his home state in modern times, a place he’s long since abandoned for a life in Paris based on the feeling that he was born in a country he never belonged […]
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Following Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell is finally back in the director’s chair, this time for a large-scale adventure feature for a major studio. His WB-backed, J.J. Abrams-produced feature The End of Oak Street (previously titled Flowervale Street) stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. Ahead of an August 14 release in IMAX and […]
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One of Werner Herzog’s most immersive documentaries has received quite the restoration and roll-out. IFC announced today that a 6K restoration and upgrade of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog’s 3D documentary exploring the highly restricted Chauvet Cave—home to some of the earliest known human artwork—will have special IMAX presentations nationwide on April 15 and […]
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A few years prior to making her landmark achievement as the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, Lina Wertmüller helmed The Seduction of Mimi, marking the Italian director’s first collaboration with star Mariangela Melato. Recently restored in 4K, the 1972 sex comedy, which was a Cannes Film Festival selection, […]
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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss Spike Lee! One of our absolute favorite filmmakers! Our B-Sides today are: Girl 6, Get on the Bus, Summer of Sam, Passing Strange, […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Berlinale coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. “The id grows tedious,” art critic Jackson Arn wrote recently, “when left to speak too freely.” The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude keeps his in check by grounding flourishes in pure mundanity. Near the end […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Berlinale coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. How do you even start to write about Chime, a film that keeps secrets guarded and lives off the shocks of its knife-edge turns? It’s safe to say the director is Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It’s […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Rotterdam coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. The first time I came across the name John C. Lilly I was––rather fittingly, for reasons that will become clearer in a minute––not exactly sober. Late in the night or early in the morning, […]
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