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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA Raymond Depardon retrospective begins. Museum of the Moving ImageA massive retrospective of 2001 in cinema brings A.I. on 35mm, along with Spirited Away, All About Lily Chou-Chou, and Werckmeister Harmonies; Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman plays on Saturday. Roxy CinemaCrash shows on 35mm; Owen Kline and Shane […]

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John Patton Ford’s sophomore feature rides the wave of its clever lead from first shot to last, cool and confident that everything will work out in his favor no matter how pitted the odds are against him. The writer-director behind Emily the Criminal introduces us to the ever-smirking Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) in a prison […]

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If period filmmaking’s credibility can be measured by the audience’s ability to imagine said person scrolling on an iPhone, Markus Schleinzer deserves recognition for his contributions to the genre. The Austrian director’s latest, a macabre, pseudo-folktale titled Rose, is set in 17th-century Germany. It’s a period to which Schleinzer travels with ease: after some introductory […]

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Premiering in competition at Berlinale last year, Johanna Moder’s Mother’s Baby tells a Rosemary’s Baby-esque mystery with a cast featuring Marie Leuenberger, Hans Low, and Claes Bang. Ahead of a release from Dark Sky Films in select theaters and digitally beginning March 6, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the new U.S. trailer. Here’s the synopsis: […]

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The Criterion Channel’s March lineup isn’t lacking for director retrospectives, but there’s unique pleasure to be found in their themed programming. Constituting its own cohesive vision is a seven-film Romanian New Wave series featuring work by Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristian Mungiu, and Radu Muntean, including the streaming premiere of Puiu’s 2016 film Sieranevada. Likewise, […]

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One of the greatest directors working today, Christian Petzold is returning with another masterfully enigmatic, gripping drama. The Paula Beer-led Miroirs No. 3, which premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year, will arrive stateside via 1-2 Special next month. Ahead of a March 20 release featuring the director in person, preceded by a retrospective at […]

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Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Butterfly | France | 15 mins As we learn at the end of seventy-year-old Florence Miailhe’s Butterfly, it was the brother of her subject that taught her how to swim. […]

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Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: All the Empty Rooms | USA | 33 mins Steve Hartman embraces his role as the “feel good story” guy in his newsroom. After programs full of tragedy and suffering, […]

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Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Butcher’s Stain | Israel | 26 mins Everyone at the Israeli supermarket where he works loves Samir (Omar Sameer) … or so it seems. Because if that were actually true, […]

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Eleven years ago, Tom Courtenay arrived at the Berlinale with Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, an exquisitely observed study of emotional dilemma in which the British actor played a doddery romantic whose selfish tendencies threatened to get the better of him. He returns to the German festival with a performance of similar weight and resonance in […]

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