NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMThe World of Black Film features Malcolm X, Daughters of the Dust, Set It Off, Black Orpheus, and more. Film ForumSatyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest begins playing in a new restoration; Snow White shows on Sunday. Film at Lincoln CenterA Raymond Depardon retrospective continues. Museum of […]
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“Between 1969 and 1977, Elvis played 1,100 shows, sometimes 3 times a day.” The postscript of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert—the extravagant, divisive Australian wunderkind’s first documentary, and hopefully not his last—says something essential about the late Elvis we witness afresh with new eyes and ears: the rock n’ roll legend gave everything […]
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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 celebrate one of our great Welshmen: Anthony Hopkins! Our B-Sides include When Eight Bells Toll, Juggernaut, Spotswood, and Instinct. Our guest is the great Brian […]
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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. Arco (Ugo Bienvenu) With his debut feature, Arco, Ugo Bienvenu puts a unique, thought-provoking twist on the solarpunk genre. He gives us a glimpse of the sort of sustainable utopia […]
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Following one of 2022’s great breakthroughs, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, we’ve been curious to see what Daniel Goldhaber would direct next. He quickly embarked on a remake of the 1978 cult horror film Faces of Death. While it wrapped three years, with Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and […]
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After two theatrical releases last year, the ever-prolific Steven Soderbergh is back this spring with The Christophers, which brings together Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, James Corden, and Jessica Gunning. Following its premiere at TIFF last fall, NEON has picked up the dramedy for an April 10 release and now the first trailer has arrived. Here’s […]
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Her films’ texture and intimacy can be so intense as to make one forget Sofia Coppola’s never delved into the documentary field. (Unless Bill Murray really spends his time singing at Bemelmans, in which case I stand corrected.) This perhaps lends logic to Marc by Sofia, her portrait of fashion mogul Marc Jacobs that premiered […]
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Enjoying much-deserved appreciation for his formally bold return to the 28 Days Later franchise, Danny Boyle also had another reason to celebrate last year: the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs, his Aaron Sorkin collaboration that found a unique structural conceit to explore three key periods in the complicated life of the late tech genius. In […]
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After Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting, astounding second feature I Saw the TV Glow topped our list of the best films of 2024, we’ve been counting down the days for the release of their follow-up. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, has been set for an August 7, 2026 […]
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While filmmakers tout their usage of the latest and greatest technology through extensive aspect-ratio videos and infographics, leave it to one filmmaker to utilize a nearly two-decade-old phone to craft one of the most beautiful cinematic works of the year. Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze, returning after the wondrous Do We See When We Look At […]
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