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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There are some others making films like Mark Jenkin. His Bolex-shot, creaky-sounding cinema isn’t the greatest system shock to those who’ve attended (one might say endured) a festival’s experimental-shorts program. But nobody is making them at Mark Jenkin’s scale, nor equaling his level of ambition for duration or narrative structure; anybody with even a passing […]
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Comedy icons Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) will be getting a well-deserved retrospective in NYC this summer. “Laurel & Hardy,” a two-week festival featuring more than 50 comedy classics, will run at Film Forum from Friday, July 10, through Thursday, July 23. The retrospective marks the 100th anniversary of their first film for producer Hal Roach and […]
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Being queer—especially in this rapidly regressive age—means becoming acquainted with a base level of fear for most of your life. It is something you learn early on: not only when you must discover who can be trusted with your survival, but whether they might betray that trust later. Violence takes so many forms that it […]
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After her impressive directorial debut Test Pattern, which was nominated for both Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards, Shatara Michelle Ford returned to the festival circuit in 2024 with Dreams in Nightmares. Now finally picked up by Lunette Films for a release beginning in NYC on August 21 and LA on August 28, the new trailer […]
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50-something years into a seismic career, Shinya Tsukamoto has embarked upon the rare English-language project. And in branching out, one of Japanese cinema’s preeminent figures—director of the Tetsuo: The Iron Man series, A Snake in June, Bullet Ballet, and Tokyo Fist, whose work extends to performances in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, Takashi Miike’s Ichi the Killer, […]
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When you think of Robin Hood, what do you think of? Errol Flynn? Kevin Costner? Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? Bryan Adams’ smash hit “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”? With The Death of Robin Hood, Michael Sarnoski is taking a new angle on the legendary outlaw. Riffing from […]
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One year on from their Wes Anderson set, in what one would only hope sets a tradition, the Criterion Collection will debut something a tad slimmer but no less essential: a Leos Carax compilation featuring Boys Meets Girl, Mauvais Sang, and The Lovers on the Bridge, with It’s Not Me (the best of them all?) […]
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A directorial debut standout on the festival circuit last year, Stillz’s Venice, TIFF, and NYFF selection Barrio Triste is now arriving in theaters in a fitting July slot. Executive produced by Harmony Korine, with an original score by Arca, Film Movement will open the first feature from the Bad Bunny collaborator in theaters on July […]
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Summer is here, and there are plenty of books in our latest roundup worthy of lugging to the beach. Just don’t be surprised if you get funny looks for eating up a book about Hannibal Lecter while lounging poolside. A Place Both Wonderful and Strange by Scott Meslow (Running Press) The death of David Lynch […]
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