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2024 Venice Film Festival Award Winners: Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ Wins The Golden Lion

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar's THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

After 10 days of 10+ minute standing ovations and exciting new titles making their world premieres, the 81st annual Venice Film Festival concluded today with its awards ceremony, which sets the stage for Awards Season. The Isabelle Huppert-headed jury awarded […]

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HARD TRUTHS Trailer: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Pissed Off With Life in Mike Leigh’s New Drama

Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Michele Austin in Mike Leigh's HARD TRUTHS

One of the most anticipated movies of this fall festival season is legendary writer-director Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths. The Venice, TIFF, NYFF, and BFI London selection has Leigh re-teaming with his Secrets & Lies star, Oscar-nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste as London […]

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HtN’s 15 Most Anticipated Films at TIFF 2024

The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5-15, and this year’s edition promises a strong, exciting variety of new cinema – ranging from Almodovar’s English feature debut The Room Next Door, to Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, to […]

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 From REPO MAN to DEAD SOULS: A Lifetime in the Cinema of Alex Cox

REPO MAN (1984) [the latest edition in an ongoing Curbside Criterion saga] or From REPO MAN to DEAD SOULS: A Lifetime in the Cinema of Alex Cox “Lattice of coincidence… all part of the cosmic unconsciousness…” In the pantheon of […]

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MEMOIR OF A SNAIL Trailer: Adam Elliot Returns With a Heartwarming Animated Coming-Of-Age Tale

Adam Elliot's MEMOIR OF A SNAIL

Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot (Mary and Max; Harvey Krumpet) is back with his second stop-motion feature in 15 years! Memoir of a Snail – which took nearly a decade to complete – follows the life of melancholic Grace (voiced by […]

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Telluride Film Festival 2024 Lineup: Slate Includes Sean Baker, Errol Morris, Andrea Arnold, and More

2024 Telluride Film Festival Lineup

The always epic (and, slightly esoteric in terms of attending goes…) Telluride Film Festival kicks off this Labor Day Weekend, running from August 30 through September 2. Sadly, HtN won’t be there this year but the lineup is, as always, incredibly […]

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