A friend recently quipped that Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day was “Mysterious Skin for straight people.” Joking aside, it’s an apt comparison beyond the whole alien-trauma thing: both Spielberg and queer punk iconoclast Gregg Araki share a fascination for characters driven by their search for connection and fulfillment in broken homes and fractured societies. And though their […]
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Premiering as part of Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (aka Venice Days), which takes place September 2 through 12, Federico Francioni and Samuele Sestieri’s Si sveglia e sbadiglia, il gatto; poi l’amore (aka The Cat Wakes Up And Yawns; Then Love) follows three months in the life of an actress searching for meaning in a chaotic Rome. […]
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One of the highlights of this year’s Venice Film Festival lineup was the return of Werner Herzog, whose latest feature Bucking Fastard will world premiere in competition. Starring Kate Mara, Rooney Mara, Orlando Bloom, and Domhnall Gleeson, the first clip has now arrived, featuring our lead sisters in sync. Here’s the synopsis: “BUCKING FASTARD is […]
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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. April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) Like Beginning, April also carries the mark of reality, mediated. The director is inspired by fictionalized stories gleaned from the real world––especially her hometown, a village at the foot […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaLarry Charles and Bob Dylan’s Masked and Anonymous plays on 35mm this Friday and Sunday; a print of Johnny Guitar screens on Friday and Saturday, the latter day also featuring Keramat; The Cycle shows on Friday night. Film at Lincoln CenterTsai Ming-liang’s The Hole continues playing […]
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After bursting on our radar with his hypnotic debut Taste at Berlinale in 2021, Vietnamese filmmaker Lê Bảo is back with Hearing (Thính Giác), which will make its World Premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in International Competition. Ahead of a debut on August 10, we’re delighted to exclusively unveil the first trailer and poster. […]
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Stanley Kubrick was unable to crack an adaptation of the short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” in his lifetime; it was only when passed to Steven Spielberg that it became clear the best path was approaching this tale of loneliness as a futuristic Pinocchio. Hirokazu Koreeda has followed in the footsteps of A.I: Artificial […]
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Ahead of the 83rd Venice Film Festival taking place from September 2-12—with a jury led by Maggie Gyllenhaal alongside Kaouther Ben Hania, Johnnie To, Xavier Giannoli, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Daniel Blumberg, and Francesco Casetti—the lineup has been unveiled. Highlights include the latest films from Lee Chang-dong, Julia Loktev, Tsai Ming-liang, Werner Herzog, Lav Diaz, Luca Guadagnino, […]
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The ten years since Nicolas Winding Refn’s prior theatrical feature was just enough time to activate déjà vu when Her Private Hell debuted at Cannes to a mixed-hostile response. While certain of these reactions (like our own) are well stated and eloquently offered, much else rings perfunctory when few directors still attract stars and financing […]
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Richard Linklater remains prolific enough—if only between his ever-shooting Merrily We Roll Along and planned project on the transcendentalists—that this already has the air of something we only recall by reading a years-old headline and wondering whatever happened there. Nevertheless, it’s nice to read he plans on reteaming with Glen Powell on another baseball movie. […]
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