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NYC Weekend Watch: Claire Denis, The Searchers on 70mm, Mermaid Legend & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMClaire Denis’ monumental No Fear, No Die begins screening in a new restoration. Museum of the Moving ImageA new 70mm print of The Searchers plays this weekend. Japan SocietyA restoration of Shinji Sōmai’s Moving and Toshiharu Ikeda’s Mermaid Legend play on Friday and Saturday, respectively. […]

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Daughters Trailer: Sundance Documentary Winner Arrives on Netflix in August

Winner of both the Audience Award and in its U.S. Documentary section and the overall Festival Favorite Award at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s deeply moving documentary Daughters will now be rolling out next month. Ahead of a theatrical release beginning August 9 and a Netflix debut on August […]

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The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Looking for what to see in theaters? Our feature, updated weekly, highlights our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restorations receiving a proper theatrical run. While we already provide extensive monthly new-release recommendations and weekly streaming recommendations, as distributors’ roll-outs can vary, this is a one-stop list to share the […]

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Mountains Trailer: Monica Sorelle’s Indie Spirit Award Winner Arrives This August

One of our favorites upon its Tribeca Festival debut last year, Monica Sorelle’s feature debut Mountains went on to be selected for TIFF and AFI Fest, and secured an Indie Spirit Award win with the “Someone to Watch” award. Now set for an August 16 release in Miami and a week later in NYC, the […]

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Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Laura Luchetti’s Italian Coming-of-Age Tale The Beautiful Summer

A favorite at Locarno Film Festival last summer, Laura Luchetti’s pre-WWII coming-of-age drama The Beautiful Summer will now be arriving in the ideal season. Set in 1938 in Turin, Luchetti adapted the script with Cesare Pavese based on his novel, featuring a cast including Yile Yara Vianello, Deva Cassel, Nicolas Maupas, and Alessandro Piavani. Ahead […]

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First Trailer for Edward Berger’s Conclave Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini & More

After surprising with a quartet of Oscar wins for his remake All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger stepped up his star power for his next project, Conclave. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Brían F. O’Byrne, Carlos Diehz, Merab Ninidze, Thomas Loibl, Sergio Castellitto, and Isabella Rossellini, the Pope drama […]

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Great Absence Review: Kei Chika-ura’s Drama is a Triumph of Structure

It could be argued that the closest relative to films about dementia is the murder mystery. There are certainly many common features: a victim and an enigmatic killer; false memories and red herrings; clues from which an identity must be pieced together; and a (usually jubilant) resolution in which said identity is revealed, if only […]

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Red Rooms Trailer: A Serial Killer Case Unfolds Acclaimed Psychological Cyber-Thriller

An acclaimed thriller that’s played at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Overlook Film Festival, and beyond, Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms is now arriving this fall. Ahead of a September 6 release from Utiopia beginning at IFC Center, the first […]

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Crossing Review: Levan Akin’s Drama Finds Authenticity Within Formulaic Queer Narrative

There’s no description of Levan Akin’s Crossing that won’t make it sound like the kind of feel-good dramedy which would have taken Sundance by storm in 2006. It has all the key ingredients: an inter-generational friendship forged between a curmudgeonly retired teacher and a young burnout desperate to escape his hometown; an epic road trip […]

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The Criterion Channel’s August Lineup Includes Youssef Chahine, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Photographer Cinema & More

The Criterion Channel’s August lineup pays tribute to auteurs of all kinds: directors, actors, and photographers, fictional or otherwise. In a notable act of preservation and advocacy, they’ll stream 20 titles by the Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, here introduced by the great Richard Peña. More known (but fun all the same) is a five-title Paul […]

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