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THE RETURN Trailer: Ralph Fiennes Fights For Juliette Binoche in Retelling of ‘The Odyssey’

Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Binoche in Umberto Pasolini's THE RETURN

Nearly thirty years after starring together in The English Patient, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche are back together in a bold retelling of Homer’s “Odyssey.” Fiennes, already drawing awards buzz for his performance in Conclave, portrays the legendary hero Odysseus […]

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OH, CANADA Trailer: Richard Gere Confesses His Life in Paul Schrader’s Mournful Drama

Richard Gere & Uma Thurman in Paul Schrader's OH, CANADA

Nearly 45 years after working together on American Gigolo, director Paul Schrader and star Richard Gere are back for a more poignant drama about looking back at life while reaching the end of it. Oh, Canada stars Gere as Leonard […]

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A Conversation with Jonathan Hsu & Law Chen (STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF)

Starring Jerry As Himself emerged from the “worst day” of producer Jonathan Hsu’s life, as he told director and longtime collaborator Lawrence Chen on the phone three years ago.  “I found out my dad’s been working as a spy for […]

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A Conversation with Tim Mielants (SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE)

The new movie Small Things Like These, from Belgian director Tim Mielants (Will), is an adaptation of Irish author Clair Keegan’s 2021 novella of the same title. Both film and source text tackle the horror of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, a […]

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THE END Trailer: Tilda Swinton Stars In Joshua Oppenheimer’s Post-Apocalyptic Musical

Tilda Swinton in THE END

Oscar-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer follows up his two documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence with his first narrative feature. His post-apocalyptic musical, The End, centers on a family living in an extravagant bunker years after the […]

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A Conversation with Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan (NOCTURNES)

The atmosphere’s concentration of Carbon Dioxide is at an all-time high; extreme weather events have become more and more frequent; sea levels are rising faster than every before. It may feel like the world is ending, and maybe it is. […]

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A Conversation with Hannah Peterson (THE GRADUATES)

A year after captivating critics and audiences at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival (where it won Best Cinematography), writer-director Hannah Peterson’s poignant, yet warm feature debut The Graduates will finally open in theaters on November 1 beginning at NYC’s Metrograph. […]

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A Conversation with James Duval (THE TEEN APOCALYPSE TRILOGY)

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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PRESENCE Trailer: A Family Is Haunted in Steven Soderbergh’s Experimental Nightmare

Steven Soderbergh's PRESENCE

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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