That every Kiyoshi Kurosawa project of late—some of which are 45 minutes long and originated as an NFT—can get a theatrical release makes especially odd the stranding of Serpent’s Path, a wholly deserving remake of his 1998 film. (Even that feel-bad triumph’s restoration got a proper run while the new film stayed offshore.) We shall […]
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Is it still a twist if the script tells you what’s happening around the 15-minute mark? The marketing that surrounds Katie Aselton’s Magic Hour seems to believe so. I’d argue the film itself does not, though, because it needs us to know what happened in order to understand what’s happening now. The struggle between Erin […]
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Following up his impressive debut The Vast of Night, it’s been a long wait for Andrew Patterson’s second feature The Rivials of Amziah King, which premiered at SXSW last year and will finally arrive in theaters beginning August 14. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Angelina LookingGlass, Kurt Russell, Cole Sprouse, Owen Teague, Scott Shepherd, Rob Morgan, and […]
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When we spoke to Nathan Silver in December, he made no illusions about having his follow-up to Between the Temples—one of 2024’s best—set. It was around this time that we’d heard much (and given much praise to) Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard winner A Poet, which recently landed in U.S. theaters via 1-2 Special. […]
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The wait for anything new from Richard Kelly is as long as it is bereft. Continually revealing and rewarding though the films, their alternate cuts, and graphic-novel prequels may be, a child born the day after The Box released is now thinking about college. When we had an in-depth conversation with him a few years […]
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As part of the impressive Cannes Classics lineup this year, a new documentary examining the vast world of the legendary, late Chris Marker will premiere. Brecht Debackere’s Nostalgia for the Future, guided by the voice of Charlotte Rampling, follows a mysterious archivist who navigates the 550 boxes of Chris Marker’s estate to reconstruct a portrait […]
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Coming off two 2025 debuts and on the eve of his latest feature, Diary of a Chambermaid, premiering at Cannes, Radu Jude—perhaps striving to make Hong Sang-soo look like a layabout—is rolling cameras on a new film next month. Tentatively titled Love Diptych, it marks “a clearing of [his] obligation towards Romanian realities” and, like […]
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After his ambitious foray into harder sci-fi with The Empire, Bruno Dumont is returning to the coming-of-age film with his highly anticipated Directors’ Fortnight selection Red Rocks, following two gangs of kids on the French Riviera over the course of the summer as friendships and first attractions start to develop. Ahead of the world premiere on May […]
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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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Loving modern cinema and admiring Tony Leung are essentially a one-to-one deal. One can look no further than Film at Lincoln Center’s recent retrospective of the actor: whether the title was a programming coup or something that’s played so often as to suggest every last New Yorker has seen it, the film starred Leung, and […]
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