It is late at night and Kiev is fast asleep when Isabelle Stever’s I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming opens on Olya (Tania Myronyshena) and Oleh (Markus Bright) arguing in their living room. You must prick up your ears to hear their muffled voices and squint to see their faces clearly—we’re watching them bicker through the […]
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Between its Cannes premiere this May and North American debut at NYFF next month, James Gray’s Paper Tiger has received a first teaser. Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson lead the project that finds Gray returning to his native New York and, for a second straight feature, exploring its working-class milieu circa the 1980s […]
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As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey sets a career record for his highest-grossing film at $1.1 billion, the epic is still rolling out in countries across the world. Another week, and another great conversation has emerged from his tour through Asia. This time, Oldboy and No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook spoke with Nolan about the […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMRites of Cinema presents the New York premiere of António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro’s restored films, along with work by Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa, and Paulo Rocha. Roxy CinemaA retrospective of 2006 begins with 35mm presentations of The Fountain and Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book; […]
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Last year I had the fortune of seeing When We Saw Each Other More Often, the feature debut by William Wrubel, a young American filmmaker who’s studied under Angela Schanelec and started his own collective, Geister Film. Although comparisons between the two will abound, Wrubel is already charting his own textured and enigmatic territory; images […]
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Kent Jones has influenced the modern cinema by uncountable degrees. It’s one thing to be a longtime collaborator of Martin Scorsese’s as co-director on multiple documentaries and key member of the Film Foundation; it’s another to program for Film at Lincoln Center before directing the New York Film Festival across eight years; and it’s altogether […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Cannes coverage. The film opens on August 7. When asked about formative movie experiences, Jane Schoenbrun has spoken of the month spent watching all the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels at 11 years old. It’s tempting to say that the seeds of their latest […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens on August 7. Is the idea of a Claire Denis film changing? There was likely an image one formed in their head when that name emerged: elliptical, sexy, avant-garde. Yet recent works are suggesting a different direction, one far […]
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The year of Robert Pattinson continues. Lance Oppenheim, marking his narrative feature debut after Some Kind of Heaven and Spermworld, directs the actor as To Catch a Predator‘s Chris Hansen in Primetime. Ahead of a Venice premiere and September 25 release, the new trailer and poster have arrived. It’ll be curious to see what Oppenheim’s […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 NYFF coverage. The film opens on August 7. “Klara remembered who she was. She pulled away from the window and she was a sculptor, although she didn’t always believe it, an artist––she believed them sometimes when they said she wasn’t.”— Don DeLillo, Underworld It […]
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