Leonie Benesch can’t catch a break. After being put through the wringer contending with the intense demands of the school system in the Academy Award-nominated The Teachers’ Lounge, the actor’s latest role finds her balancing another high-wire act in a claustrophobic institutional setting. Petra Volpe’s Late Shift, set during the overnight stint at an understaffed […]
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An impressive directorial debut and true New York tale, Joel Alfonso Vargas’ Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) was a selection at Sundance, Berlinale, New Directors/New Films, BFI London, and more film festivals last year. Starring Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, and Nathaly Navarro, it was picked up by […]
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If on sabbatical, return with the undeniable. Such was the thinking in programming films by two masters to mark the return of my screening series Amnesiascope, which is henceforth stationed just off Union Square at the newly christened Center for Theatre Research. (Much as I will miss many Greenpoint eateries, BCTR’s much-easier location and bigger […]
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Criterion’s history is longer and more complicated than anybody quite realizes, leaving some of their earliest (or even recent-ish) titles in a strange, semi-canonized state. I’m thus excited by a program, debuting April, that resurrects certain of Criterion’s left-behind releases: King Kong (featuring the first-ever audio commentary), High Noon, Bad Day at Black Rock (with […]
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“Someone at Sony Ericsson did a very good job!” Shielded from Locarno’s scorching heat inside the air-conditioned lobby of the Kursaal theater, Alexandre Koberidze is extolling the virtues of the camera with which he shot his latest, Dry Leaf. Not the high-resolution equipment he used for his sophomore feature, 2021’s feted What Do We See […]
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Following up Evil Does Not Exist and Gift, Ryusuke Hamaguchi is returning this year with All of a Sudden. The French production, starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, landed at the top spot in our 100 most-anticipated films of 2026, and with a June 19 release set in Japan, a Cannes debut is all but […]
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Thornton Wilder’s meta-play Our Town, a staple of high school productions and English-class readings, has been used countless times onscreen—from its own adaptations to a memorable episode of The Wonder Years—as an entry point for talking about life on an earth that, as protagonist Emily Webb famously says, is “too wonderful for anybody to realize […]
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Before he heads off to embark on his James Bond film, Denis Villeneuve is concluding the saga that has taken up much of the last decade. Going by the more marketing-friendly title of Dune: Part Three rather than Dune Messiah, the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel once again brings together Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Anya […]
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One of the most acclaimed feature-directing debuts of the last year, Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron premiered at the Locarno Film Festival where it picked up the Best First Feature Award, and will now be arriving this spring from Janus Films. Ahead of an April 17 theatrical release, the first trailer has now landed. Here’s the […]
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan usually takes more than a few years between films as of late, and thus we’ve been waiting to hear what might be next. The Turkish filmmaker has now unveiled his latest feature, following About Dry Grasses, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where Merve Dizdar picked up the Best Actress […]
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