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Each year at the Indie Film Site Network (IFSN), we’re honored to highlight independent films that illuminate a humanitarian or environmental issue with a singular artistic vision. In 2024 we’ve announced Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor’s essential, urgent documentary No Other Land as the recipient of the IFSN Advocate Award. The […]
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One of the great music documentaries of all-time has received new life. For its 20th anniversary, Ondi Timoner’s DIG! has received a remastered and enhanced version with DIG! XX, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival. Following rival psych-rock bands the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols over a tumultuous eight years, […]
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Among our most-anticipated films of 2025 is the latest from Driveways and Fire Island director Andrew Ahn. His remake of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet brings together Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran, Joan Chen, Han Gi-chan, and Youn Yuh-jung, with a script co-written with James Schamus, who co-wrote and produced the original 1993 rom-com. Ahead of […]
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After his well-deserved Oscar win for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, we have to imagine cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema will reteam with the director for his mysterious forthcoming feature, which has amassed a cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, and Robert Pattinson ahead of production early next year and release in July […]
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We’re now just under a month away from Brady Corbet’s staggering third feature The Brutalist and today brings a welcome tease. Daniel Blumberg composed over two hours of original music for the epic drama and today the first three Overture tracks that open the film have arrived: “Overture (Ship),” “Overture (László),” and “Overture (Bus).” Of […]
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For most of its runtime, Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden’s fish-out-of-water non-fiction hybrid The Black Sea teeters on the edge of being too cute. But Harden is the variable––the lead performer whose dynamic with both actors and non-actors skirts the right side of the line between intuition and invention. It’s a line that’s also […]
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Watching When the Light Breaks on a recent day in Thessaloniki, I spared a thought for anyone in the audience who might be wary of Gen-Z’s famed sensitivity. For a film built around a painful secret and an awful tragedy, it’s delivered with refreshingly buoyant energy, yet the thing you hear most often is the […]
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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. Alien: Romulus (Fede Alvarez) It’s a dire, inhospitable environment, wherein corporate interests can give way to ghoulish monstrosities, and those just trying to navigate the chokehold of capitalism are […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaAn Adrian Lyne retrospective features Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder, Lolita, and Foxes on 35mm, while Bob Saget and Norm MacDonald’s seminal Dirty Work plays on a print Saturday. BAMA Shelley Duvall retrospective is underway. Museum of Modern ArtA celebration of Robert Frank’s centennial begins. Museum […]
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“Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?” The conundrum of theodicy has long plagued humanity, just as it’s plagued the Ozians of Munchkinland. Like the source novel and Broadway musical, Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of part one of Wicked (penned by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox) doesn’t dig into […]
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