This year’s Cannes Classics selection was no small thing, yet one object loomed larger than any other (while making a rather formidable start for Warner’s new Clockwork label). Granted a 4K restoration and screening in Ken Russell’s long-obscured cut, The Devils arrives stateside on October 16. Ahead of the 1971 film’s 2026 homecoming (seemingly marketed […]
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Now in its 10th edition, the Nitrate Picture Show—held at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York—is becoming the closest thing American cinephiles have to a pilgrimage. Every year it feels as if half of New York’s film community, out of sheer love for the medium, flocks upstate to catch the dozen-odd rare prints […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMA 35mm-heavy Masahiro Shinoda retrospective has begun. Museum of Modern ArtThe expertly programmed Universal Westerns continues with two by Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher in 3D. Film at Lincoln CenterHistory, Italian Style continues with Vincere, The Conformist, and Love and Anarchy on 35mm. Museum of […]
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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. André Is an Idiot (Tony Benna) There is an unbridled honesty to André Is an Idiot that is admirable, even if all of it doesn’t really work. It’s a simple, stark subject for a […]
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Comedian John Early has been waiting for his film to be seen by audiences. Premiering at TIFF last fall, Early’s directorial debut is a sublime comedy that commits to simultaneously becoming a serious drama about a woman with a returned eating disorder. Maddie’s Secret, which Early also wrote and leads, plays like a 1980s TV […]
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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 one of the greatest film directors to ever live: Steven Spielberg! Our B-Sides are 1941, Hook, Amistad, and The Adventures of Tintin. Our […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens on June 19. The films of Mark Jenkin ooze a hypnotic, seasick sensibility; to watch them is to be lulled by their restless jumps through time and space, their ability to convert his home turf of Cornwall into a […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens on June 19. You can’t accuse John Early of not committing. Through the majority of his acting career, the comedian has become a reliable avatar for a palpable, toxic, hilarious narcissism, playing characters oblivious to the world outside the […]
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show can be described in hundreds of ways. Over the last five decades, it’s become more than just a cult classic; it’s a cultural touchstone for people around the country, with midnight screenings popping up without warning while packing theaters. In New York, a Broadway show on Rocky Horror continues to […]
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Perhaps I’ll need to burn my cinephile card if I suggest that the Criterion Channel’s best addition next month—best addition all year?—is a TV series. But I let out an actual exhale upon reading that they’re adding all 17 episodes of Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner, which simultaneously boasts ’60s surrealism, spy story, structural experiment, and […]
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