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Hey NYC! Don’t Play With Fire: The Films of Tsui Hark
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Opening tomorrow at Metrograph NYC, the series celebrates the films of Chinese filmmaker Tsui Hark, from Hong Kong to Hollywood and back again. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem Trailer: The Documentary of the Year Arrives This October
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The only film to screen at Sundance, Cannes, Telluride, TIFF, NYFF, and London this year, Once Upon a Time in Harlem is far and away the best documentary of 2026. An extraordinary time capsule featuring footage the late William Greaves...
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“BY ANY MEANS”
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THE STORY – A young Black FBI agent is sent into 1960s Mississippi to investigate a wave of brutal killings targeting civil rights leaders. Forced to work alongside notorious mafia hitman Greg Scarpa, he finds himself pulled into a deadly hunt...
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“TOO MUCH SUGAR”
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THE STORY – Ryan “Holli-wood” Holliger is a charismatic pit bull of a man with six kids by five different women. His best friend AccRite is a rapper and laborer, dealing with an unimaginable loss. They have big dreams of...
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Bucking Fastard | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Herzog Returns with Theater of the Bizarre Until quite recently, it was a foregone conclusion legendary director Werner Herzog would not be able to make his long gestating feature Bucking Fastard, detailed amongst several other...
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Telluride Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup
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As per tradition, one day ahead of the Telluride Film Festival kicking off, they have unveiled their official lineup, including films by Andrew Haigh, Mike Leigh, Werner Herzog, Jordan Firstman, Jesse Eisenberg, Paweł Pawlikowski, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Danny Boyle, Sofia Coppola,...
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The 2026 Telluride Film Festival Lineup
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The Telluride Film Festival has announced its official program selections for its 53rd edition this morning. Each year, Telluride serves as an unofficial kick-off to awards season (along with the overlapping Venice Film Festival) as 47 Best Picture nominees have...
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Venice Review: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Is a Strange, Earnestly Heartfelt Oddity 
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Past a certain age and a certain number of features, a director will almost inevitably be embroiled in that stifling debate: have they reached their “late” style yet? What that means exactly can be tricky to articulate: writing about Beethoven,...
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Venice Review: In Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar, Filmmaking Is a Form of Therapy
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Too Much Sugar is a movie about family, friends, and filmmaking—what’s not to like? It’s the latest project from Robert Greene, a regular collaborator of Alex Ross Perry (Greene has edited everything from Listen Up Philip to Pavements, as well as the Safdies’ Lenny Cooke)....
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“BUCKING FASTARD”
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THE STORY – Sisters Jean and Joan Holbrooke are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot...
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