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With only two feature films, Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili has collected some of the highest accolades in the film world. Her astonishing debut Beginning received a Cannes label at the festival’s canceled pandemic edition and won four of the seven competitive prizes in San Sebastián that same year, including the Golden Shell for Best Film. […]

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Working at quite a steady clip, Justin Kurzel followed up True History of the Kelly Gang and Nitram with The Order, which premiered this fall at Venice Film Festival. Starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, and Marc Maron, the film tells the true story of FBI agents tracking down robberies […]

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Many films have dared to ask if a man and a woman can ever just be friends, but very few have managed to answer in the affirmative. For most of its first half, All of You appeared destined to wind up another addition to this romantic canon, as journalist Simon (Brett Goldstein) slowly realizes his […]

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One of the most acclaimed films of the year, Payal Kapadia’s dazzling Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner All We Imagine as Light is now finally rolling out stateside. After stops at Telluride, TIFF, and NYFF, Sideshow and Janus Films will release it in U.S. theaters starting November 15 and now have debuted the new […]

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Steve McQueen has long been upfront about his desire to make a musical; before Widows underwhelmed at the box office, it appeared likely that a passion project within that genre would be his next film. With each subsequent effort, it seems McQueen is slowly pushing himself into that wheelhouse, getting audiences to imagine what such […]

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For a certain kind of cinephile (e.g. me) more than a decade’s been spent wondering about Julia Loktev. The brilliant director behind Day Night Day Night and The Loneliest Planet has been largely off-the-grid since the latter’s release in 2011, despite occasional interviews revealing work on a new film; it eventually seemed best to make […]

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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, the feature debut from artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, aims to foreground its primary literary material and historical context, but instead directs more attention to its oneiric touches and environmental phenomena––the “wind in the trees,” so to speak. The title figure, together with her more widely known husband Aimé Césaire, […]

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Rohmer Summer has fed into Rohmer Fall: following sold-out screenings of The Green Ray and a shorts program, my screening series Amnesiascope has partnered again with Instagram auteur Rohmer Fits for two special screenings of Éric Rohmer’s 1998 triumph A Tale of Autumn, which will play Sunday, October 13 and Tuesday, October 22 at the […]

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While his work was recently seen worldwide (or least screened worldwide, even if the theaters were empty) with crafting the opening animated sequence of Joker: Folie à Deux, Sylvain Chomet is also hard at work on his next feature. Set to arrive in 2025, a long 15 years after his previous feature The Illusionist, The […]

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The best holiday movie of the season, Ham on Rye director Tyler Taormina expanded his star power with Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, which brings together Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Maria Dizzia, Sawyer Spielberg, Francesca Scorsese, and many more. After premiering at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, IFC Films picked it up for a […]

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