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. Across the River and Into the Trees (Paula Ortiz) Hemingway’s work across novels and short stories has been adapted for film countless times over, yet Across the River and Into […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMA series of “silent” movies includes films by Tati, Miguel Gomes, and Chaplin. Film at Lincoln CenterThe new 4K restoration of Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors continues. Museum of the Moving ImageThe Seventh Victim and The Fog play on Friday; a Godzilla series gets underway; The […]
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Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, Leslie Bibb, Amy Aquino, and Adrienne C. Moore.
James Duval, is an American actor who rose to prominence in the 1990s as a key figure in the New Queer Cinema movement. Duval is perhaps best known for his collaborations with independent filmmaker Gregg Araki, particularly in Araki’s “Teenage […]
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The strange, rollercoaster of a career for Michel Gondry continues in 2025. His recent feature The Book of Solutions will finally get a U.S. release, while his Pharrell Williams-inspired Atlantis, starring the epic cast of Kelvin Harrison Jr., Halle Bailey, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Brian Tyree Henry, Quinta Brunson, Janelle Monáe, Jaboukie Young-White, Tim Meadows, Anderson […]
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After terrifying audiences at this year’s Sundance and TIFF, Steven Soderbergh’s haunted house experiment Presence will finally make its way to U.S. theaters to kick off the new year. NEON picked up the movie following its Sundance premiere, adding it […]
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Steven Soderbergh is gearing up for a busy early 2025. Before his thriller Black Bag, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, arrives in March, we’ll finally get the release of his formally inventive ghost tale Presence. Coming from NEON a year after its Sundance premiere, the supernatural thriller starring Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, […]
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Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star in a film written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg.
Revisiting cinematic legacies has become a genre unto itself. In 2021, the Tribeca Film Festival showcased Eddie Martin’s documentary The Kids, a behind-the-scenes expose of Larry Clark’s cult classic, revealing a web of collective trauma, exploitation, and victimhood. This year’s edition shines a similar spotlight on Kevin Smith’s cherished yet problematic rom-com Chasing Amy, all through the lens of director Sav Rodgers. Rodgers gained viral attention following a TED talk where he credited the film with saving his life as a queer kid. His talk resonated widely, even prompting Kevin Smith to reach out. The same film, however, has been criticized for presenting a cishet white man’s conception of queer life that lacks genuine representation. Elizabeth Sankey’s docu-essay Romantic Comedy critiques the…
