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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaFat City screens on 35mm this Sunday, as does a 16mm puppets program; restorations of Santa Sangre and Amadeus play Friday and Saturday, respectively. Museum of Modern ArtA major highlight of any filmgoing year, To Save and Project continues, with Anthony Mann’s Jimmy Stewart-starring Bend of […]
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As we ponder if the rest of the world will ever see Wong Kar-wai’s 25-hour project Blossoms Shanghai following its premiere in China about a year ago, those in the country will get a chance to experience an expanded edition of his 2000 masterpiece In the Mood for Love very soon. In celebration of the […]
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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars and movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Sometimes we are lucky enough to even speak with them about their work. And sometimes, they are both a movie star and a […]
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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. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice) Eríce’s latest is the ultimate cinephile catnip: the triumphant return of a director known to only make masterpieces, a film filled with in-group references […]
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With incomparable sadness we have learned that David Lynch, in his time perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, has died at 78. Few artists have ever contributed more to their chosen medium, which is of course to say nothing of Lynch’s achievements in painting, music, or really whatever else he ventured towards. The corpus he leaves […]
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When Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Sōmai, Gakuryū Ishii, and contemporaries needed to shirk themselves of the responsibilities and strictures driving Japan’s studio system, they formed Directors Company, an independent production outfit that did what it said on the tin. Their output proved some of the most scorching films ever produced in the country. Despite folding in […]
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Ahead of the Berlinale 2025 taking place February 13-23, they’ve unveiled their lineups for Berlinale Special, Panorama, Generation and Forum sections. Highlights include confirmation of Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 alongside Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, Ancestral Visions of the Future from This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, a […]
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. By way of introduction, I think I said most of the important things last year, so I’ll keep it short this time around. Maybe. 2024 was probably a beautiful, exciting, formative year […]
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Criterion’s starting 2025 with 4K on the mind: today brings news that April will bring Sean Baker’s Anora and a Blu-ray of Prince of Broadway alongside 4K releases for Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (both the theatrical edition and black-and-white director’s cut), Some Like It Hot, and two films by Claude Berri, Jean de Florette and Manon […]
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