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13 Films to See in September
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If one peruses our 50-title fall movie preview, there shouldn’t be too many surprises for narrowing down what to see in September. But with our most-anticipated film of the entire year arriving this month, along with some early autumn gems,...
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Riefenstahl Review: A Portrait of the Artist as a Nazi Collaborator
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It is fascinating what the human mind will allow. Riefenstahl, a documentary directed by Andres Veiel about the life of Leni Riefenstahl, explores the rationalizations the filmmaker allowed herself in order to explain her collaborations with the Nazi Party in...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes in the Second Half of “Wednesday” Season Two
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Despite Part Two trying a sort of hard reset, "Wednesday" still struggles to feel cohesive.
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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Sierra Falconer on “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)”
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An interview with the director of the sun-dappled Michigan-set Sundance fave, produced by Joanna Hogg.
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Telluride Film Festival 2025: The Cycle of Love, H is for Hawk, La Grazia
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It’s always surprising what films sneak up on you at a film festival. Of the three films I wrote about for this Telluride Film Festival dispatch, I would’ve guessed a Claire Foy-led movie about grief or a new Paolo Sorrentino...
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Trailer for El Pampero Cine’s Venice and NYFF Premiere Pin de Fartie Turns Samuel Beckett Upside-Down
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Fall-festival season invariably crowds-out some of its finer offerings. For all the sturm und drang surrounding a studio’s middling and formulaic awards hopeful, the same festival might screen a blissfully experimental feature that, despite actually achieving something new with narrative...
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Trailer for Mike Figgis’ MEGADOC Goes Behind the Tumultuous Creation of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
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Few recent films scratch an itch like MEGADOC. Whatever the cinematic value of Mike Figgis’ documentary––and accounting for cheap-looking title cards with obvious typos, low-energy music, maybe not enough done with interview subject George Lucas while cutting out the participating...
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Venice Review: François Ozon’s The Stranger Finally Gives Albert Camus’ Novel Its Cinematic Due
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Nobel laureate Albert Camus is one of the most consequential thinkers and writers in the French language, having created absurdist characters and worlds that reflect a view on human existence which remains hauntingly unique. His debut novel The Stranger has...
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Do You Hear Your Trees? They’re Crying: Graham Greene (1952—2025)
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A tribute to the trailblazing Native American actor, who died this past weekend.
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