A TV review of what might be Apple’s best show.
After her 2021 breakout in The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve’s 2022 and 2023 seemed fairly quiet for the viewer, but she was working on no shortage of projects that finally saw the light of day this year. Following A Different Man, Handling the Undead, Another End, and Presumed Innocent, she leads Armand, […]
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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. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg) There are a lot of ways A Different Man could go and a lot of things it could be. Aaron Schimberg’s uniquely uncomfortable, uncomfortably unique feature […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaIn honor of Ken Kelsch, Abel Ferrara’s The Blackout and The Addiction screen on 35mm; prints of Douglas Buck’s Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America and the 2006 Sisters remake screen Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Film ForumA 4K restoration of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il Grido begins; 42 screens on Sunday. […]
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June 25th, 1978. It is the day of the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland. It is also a time of military dictatorship, a junta has taken over the country. A death squad is under orders to find a group of dissidents and when they get a proper lead they go round them up and proceed to torture them. What starts out as inhumane interrogation goes to hell as the death squad discovers they have kidnapped a group of people who have aligned themselves with something far more evil than these puppets of the junta. “We should not play soccer amid the concentration camps and torture chambers” C.O.B.A. Once again the Onetti Brothers (What The Waters Left Behind and it’s sequel WTWLB:…
(Check our Chris Reed’s Bird movie review. It hits theaters in NYC Friday, November 8 before expanding after that. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) British director Andrea Arnold (Cow) has long explored the ins and outs […]
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Taormina discusses how “sonder” informs the shape and texture of his work.
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Despite having gone into production in the summer of 2023 (in Mexico City and San Francisco), Dreams was not a film that Michel Franco wanted to rush for a 2024 drop. Today, The Match Factory officially launches sales on the project (easily be among our most anticipated features for 2025) and provides us with a better breakdown on what to expect. As we already knew, Jessica Chastain, newbie Isaac Hernández and Rupert Friend were part of the cast, but learn that Hernández plays a more significant role in the film and as was the case with Memory, Chastain will more or less be equal footing with – here we go with the synopsis:
Fernando (Hernández), a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of being internationally recognized and living in the US.… Read the rest
There’s always the high-wire act, an exchange-and-trade, attending festivals in enviable parts of the world. Some locations only offer too much joy at the opportunity to kill time with a directorial debut that will never be seen outside these confines. Others are enough to chafe against entire concepts of cinephilia, to engender soul-searching questions such […]
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A ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark turns bloody under the tyranny of the mad King Christian II. Caught up in this deadly war, two sisters seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. Mikael Håfström’s action adventure Stockholm Bloodbath comes to cinemas and On Demand tomorrow, Friday, November 8th. We have an exclusive clip from the distributor Brainstorm Media to share with you today. We chose the clip with a fair share of carnage in it, an assault on a wedding. If anyone has any objections to this marriage speak now – preferably not with a sword – or forever hold your peace. Jakob Oftebro and Claes Bang look on as their soldiers attack a wedding party, then decide…