Since 2024, I’ve had the distinct fortune of covering the Tokyo International Film Festival, which boasts one-of-one programming comprising world premieres of the best in contemporary Asian film, experimental cinema, and repertory classics. I’ll be present for the 39th edition, which begins on October 26, and for which the three centerpiece screenings have been announced.

I’m glad to see there’s a new film by the great Takahisa Zeze—now that Kiyoshi Kurosawa is fully canonized, western cinephilia should get to him next—who will open the festival with Sukiyaki, which “tells the dramatic stories of three artists who inspired people in postwar Japan, interwoven with a collection of musical masterpieces.” Junichi Okada (From Up on Poppy Hill), Tori Matsuzaka (Shin Kamen Rider), and Taiga Nakano (Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle) star in the film, which Toho will open domestically on Christmas.

Following its New York Film Festival world premiere, Yamazaki Takashi’s Godzilla Minus Zero will make its domestic debut just ahead of a November 3 release. Festival director Ichiyama Shozo doesn’t mince words in calling it “a masterpiece that was truly meant to be made in these challenging times.”

Finally, Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony will close the 39th TIFF on November 4. We recently shared an extensive interview with the Train to Busan director and his star Jun Ji-hyun, noting that the film “helped resurrect Korean moviegoing after a long, fallow stretch.”

See descriptions of each film below and check back for our coverage beginning in late October.

Sukiyaki (Takahisa Zeze)
In 1963, as Japan continued its recovery from postwar turbulence, a pop song reached a historic milestone in Japanese music history, sweeping the US Billboard charts, holding the No.1 spot fort hree consecutive weeks. That song is “Sukiyaki.” This musical drama chronicles the fateful union of the three creative forces behind the legendary song: brilliant composer Nakamura Hachidai (Okada Junichi), lyricist Ei Rokusuke (Matsuzaka Tori), and iconic singer Sakamoto Kyu (Nakano Taiga), bringing their passions and conflicts to life.

Godzilla Minus Zero (Yamazaki Takashi)
War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it even further, into minus territory. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally return to normalcy. But just as humanity is clinging to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant. This film goes beyond Godzilla Minus One, a world-captivating film that won the Best Visual Effects at the 96th Academy Awards®. There is no third time. Everything ends here.

Colony (Yeon Sang-ho)
A sudden, unidentified bioterror attack strikes a skyscraper in downtown Seoul. Professor Se Jeong, visiting for a biotech conference, finds herself trapped inside the locked-down building and witnesses the fast-moving infected evolving with a collective intelligence. This non-stop action-thriller premiered in a Cannes Midnight Screening before sweeping box office charts in Korea and beyond.

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Just off their acclaimed 2024 feature Ghostlight, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson continued their status as preeminent chroniclers of modern American life with Mouse. The film—starring Sophie Okonedo, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Chloe Coleman, Tara Mallen, Iman Vellani, David Hyde Pierce—made a fine impression at this year’s Berlinale, and will open on November 6 from the Independent Film Company, ahead of which comes a first trailer.

As Savina Petkova said in our review out of Berlin, “What makes Mouse special is its attention to women’s friendship (and kinship) across generations. By zooming in on the complex relationship between a kid who’d rather consider herself motherless and a childless mother, Mouse takes on the responsibility to tell each story in full, splitting screen time between them individually and together as they grow closer, remembering Callie.”

Here’s the synopsis: “It’s 2002, and best friends Minnie (Kupferer) and Callie (Coleman) are heading into their senior year of high school, with Minnie long living in the protective shadow of the charismatic and admired Callie. When their friendship is suddenly upended at the start of the summer, Minnie struggles to define her own identity and forms a complicated relationship with Callie’s poised, attentive mother (Okonedo), pulling her further from her own chaotic home.”

Watch the preview below:

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A jolt to the Cannes Film Festival when it premiered later in the lineup, Los Javis’ La Bola Negra was snapped up by Netflix, which will roll it out beginning October 16, followed by a Netflix premiere on December 2––their longest theatrical window yet. Led by Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Julio Torres, Penélope Cruz, and Glenn Close, the first U.S. trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “A bold tapestry spanning nearly a century of Spanish history, La Bola Negra tells the story of three generations of men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain, and love in this celebrated film from Cannes-winning directors, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.”

Jan Tracz said in his review, “The film also joins a lineage of contemporary cinema that aspires to novelistic storytelling through audiovisual means. Last year’s Sound of Falling had a similar premise, echoing influential modernist writers like Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner to create a provocative stream of consciousness through images rather than literature. Here, the ‘cinema of attractions’ resembles the style of Mario Vargas Llosa’s 1969 novel Conversation in the Cathedral, each sequence adding another layer of meaning to the equation. It is for the spectator to decide when and how they will decode this impressive jigsaw.”

See the trailer below:

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Following yesterday’s announcement of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest project coming to this fall’s New York Film Festival, another major world premiere has been unveiled. Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial will world-premiere in the Main Slate of the 64th New York Film Festival, taking place from September 25 through October 12. The debut of the film, which NEON acquired after Amazon MGM Studios’ abandonment, is set for October 5 at the Alice Tully Hall with Guadagnino and members of the cast in attendance.

Here’s the festival’s synopsis: “The stakes couldn’t be higher in Luca Guadagnino’s thrilling, funny, and very human Artificial, a drama of immense moral urgency that propels the viewer through the two decades of machine learning research and technocratic recklessness that have brought us to our current AI crisis point. In 2003, Soviet-born computer scientist Ilya Sutskever (Yura Borisov) began studying artificial neural networks under University of Toronto professor Geoffrey ‘Godfather of AI’ Hinton (Mark Rylance). A decade later, while employed by Google, Sutskever fatefully crosses paths with a young entrepreneur named Sam Altman (Andrew Garfield), the eventual co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Among our boldest auteurs, Guadagnino (previously at NYFF with Call Me by Your Name, Bones and All,Queer, and After the Hunt) takes his biggest swing yet for this headlong plunge into our doomsday moment, with a script by Simon Rich that probes the increasing gray areas between human and machine, truth and lie. Anchored by brilliant, fully inhabited lead performances by Garfield and Borisov; a remarkable supporting cast, including Rylance, Monica Barbaro, Cooper Hoffman, Ike Barinholtz, Jason Schwartzman, and Chris O’Dowd; and original songs and score by Damon Albarn, Guadagnino’s film moves like a machine in unstoppable, constant motion—a history being written as we’re watching it. A NEON release.”

NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim stated: “The most remarkable thing about Luca Guadagnino’s sly and sobering new film is that it finds the perfect tone to tell the story of how we arrived at the AI precipice. Artificial traces this trajectory with clear-eyed horror, dark humor, and a sense of existential urgency. If ever there was a movie for its moment, this is it.”

“I don’t know Sam Altman. I’ve never met him,” Garfield recently told Esquire. “I was going off of the script and court transcripts and interviews and research, and we were telling a story, but I think anyone who takes on that level of responsibility for a company or a technology that you know is going to do a hell of a lot of damage to the soul of humanity [must have] a certain ability to dissociate.”

The 64th New York Film Festival takes place September 25 through October 12, 2026 with passes on sale now. Single tickets go on sale September 15 at noon.

See the first image from Artificial below.

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After you’ve explored our massive, 70-film fall movie preview, it’s time to drill deeper into what September offers. Along with the kickoff of fall festivals, this month brings a number of notable gems, including remarkable debut features, a varied slate of documentaries, and at least one master auteur’s long-awaited U.S. release.

15. Never After Dark (Dave Boyle, Sept. 25)

Clearly inspired by a director that appears towards the top of this list (including casting his frequent collaborator Mutsuo Yoshioka), Dave Boyle’s creepy chiller Never After Dark is a stylish yet thoughtful pre-October treat. Following a traveling psychic who uncovers dark secrets at a remote house, Boyle’s Japanese production may take its time to deliver the goods, but when the blood spills, it is done in quite memorable fashion.

14. The Oldest Person in the World (Sam Green, Sept. 10)

32 Sounds director Sam Green’s latest film is perhaps the most universal of the year, as we all contend with aging (if we’re lucky). Kent M. Wilhelm said in his Sundance review, “Why do we care who the oldest person in the world is? It doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. It feels like they’re always around the same age. But if there’s an article about it, I’m going to speak for us all and say we’re clicking on it. First of all: we gotta see what they look like. Second: we want to know if they got to this age by living a healthy, active lifestyle or if they’re one of these cases where they smoke like Don Draper and eat a bloody steak everyday. Will they reinforce our bad habits or be a cause for change in our daily lives? It all boils down to a morbid curiosity. It’s part of pondering our own mortality. What director Sam Green offers with The Oldest Person in the World is a decade of him doing the same.”

13. Black Zombie (Maya Annik Bedward; Sept. 11)

Exploring the Haitian folktale origins of the zombie and how they morphed into some of horror’s most iconic figures, Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary Black Zombie takes an unsettling look at the ways their original cultural history has shifted for mass consumption. Jared Mobarak said in his review, “More than reclaiming the zombie motif from the knee-jerk response that Night of the Living Dead inhibited, Maya Annik Bedward’s Black Zombie is a reclamation of Vodou from the colonial fear-mongering that used it to demonize Black people the world over. Because it’s 2026 and Haitians are still cautious to admit their connection to the religion. There’s still an outsider belief that Haiti’s recent hardships are a result of its ancestors making a pact with the Devil.”

12. The Scout (Paula González-Nasser, Sept. 25)

Premiering at last year’s Tribeca Festival to much acclaim, Paula González-Nasser’s debut The Scout follows a day in the life of an NYC location scout. Michael Frank said in his Tribeca review, “González-Nasser invites an openness from these characters, each given one scene with Sofia, to banter with her, make her uncomfortable, or some combination of the two. And the young location scout just takes it all in stride, as though she’s been in these situations countless times, as each apartment is a part of her job she doesn’t love, but also doesn’t mind. She might even relish it on one or two occasions, the opportunity to sit on someone’s couch and hear their story or to find a new hack to delete her mountain of parking tickets.”

11. Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (Josef Kubota Wladyka, Sept. 25)

One of the breakouts of the Sundance Film Festival this year, where it picked up the U.S. Dramatic Directing award, Josef Kubota Wladyka’s stylish and moving Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! is coming this fall. Blake Simons said in his review, “In dance, you have to lead with confidence. Your partner looks to you for guidance, and they require you to look back at them responsively, to move instinctually without faltering. There’s need for surefootedness, consistency, and impeccable timing. Luckily for us, Josef Kubota Wladyka’s fun and deceptively frothy third feature Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! has all of these qualities in spades.”

10. Resident Evil (Zach Cregger, Sept. 18)

Following Barbarian and last year’s Oscar-winning Weapons, Zach Cregger is back sooner than expected, this time jumping into franchise territory. His next feature stays in the horror genre with a new take on Resident Evil, a series launched by Paul W. S. Anderson and given a reboot by Johannes Roberts five years ago; Cregger here stakes out his own territory with Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser starring. It’ll be fun to see Cregger have some lean, mean fun with a sub-90-minute runtime.

9. The Weight (Padraic McKinley, Sept. 18)

A highlight to emerge from this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Padraic McKinley’s The Weight, a period thriller that brings together Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, Julia Jones, Austin Amelio, Avi Nash, and Sam Hazeldine on a treacherous journey. Kent M. Wilhelm said in his Sundance review, “McKinley’s intense and, at times, brutal thriller is crowd-pleasing without being pandering. He melds a winning premise, breathless sequences, and lush photography with the right cast to draw you into the treacherous journey. The Weight borrows from action-adventure films like Cliffhanger and Indiana Jones, but possesses a more thoughtful soul—one hand on its heart, the other on a blade.”

8. Barbara Forever (Brydie O’Connor, Sept. 4)

Avant-garde pioneer Barbara Hammer has received a much-deserved documentary portrait ahead of the world premiere of the new restoration of her seminal Nitrate Kisses at the New York Film Festival. As Dan Mecca said in our Critic’s Pick review out of Sundance, “The best thing about Brydie O’Connor’s documentary Barbara Forever is how it functions as an interesting, engaging movie on its own terms. It concerns the life of filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a pioneer of queer cinema and larger, cultural queer identity. And while there are plenty of films and archival photos and video to tell Hammer’s story, O’Connor is smart to never make this feel like homework. It is ultimately much more than a celebration of a great artist (Hammer passed away in 2019). Too often do these profiles of artists play it safer than said artist ever would. Barbara Forever does not do that. It often feels like a Barbara Hammer film itself while evolving into a sharp, clever montage that moves fast and entertains throughout. It’s funny and disarming and, ultimately, quietly uplifting.”

7. If They Go Will They Miss Me (Walter Thompson-Hernández, Sept. 11)

Finding poetic beauty in the quotidian, Walter Thompson-Hernández’s If I Go Will They Miss Me centers on coming of age in housing projects of southern Los Angeles. It’s a way of life often depicted with a grittiness that favors do-or-die intensity, yet this emerging director of great promise takes an opposite approach. One where dreams of flight are always on the mind as the planes coming in and out of nearby LAX are constantly passing above. Greek gods, as studied in school, give purpose to a higher calling. An affection and adoration for and from its ensemble (many non-professionals, in this case) form a portrait of a living, loving community that rises above hardship. Just as his characters draw grand personal inspiration, Thompson-Hernández is greatly indebted to a variety of renowned directors, including Barry Jenkins, RaMell Ross, Charles Burnett, and Spike Lee, with the end result a film greater than the sum of its recognizable influences. Continue reading my full review.

6. Hope (Na Hong-jin, Sept. 9)

Following a divisive Cannes premiere that spurred curiosity more than merely decent reviews, the “final cut” of Na Hong-Jin’s sci-fi thriller Hope is now coming to theaters this month. Luke Hicks said in his review, “It’s never night in Hope Harbor. At least so long as we’re there. The eschatological events of writer-director Na Hong-Jin’s high-octane, highly anticipated Hope unfold over the course of one long, grueling, nonstop chase of a day for its rag-tag team of small-town South Korean cops, yokels, and hicks, an ensemble that ranges from heroic to hilarious in this blathering creature-feature phantasm.”

5. Brand New Landscape (Yuiga Danzuka, Sept. 22 on Fandor)

A favorite on the festival circuit last year, where it premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Yuiga Danzuka’s debut feature is now coming to Fandor this month. Blake Simons said in their review, “When confronted with the past, do you drive away or turn back to face it? Siblings Ren (Kurosaki Kodai, in his first lead role) and Emi (Mai Kiryu) have been estranged from their father (Ken’ichi Endô) for the ten years since he chose a new work opportunity in Tokyo. Ren, now a florist, notices a familiar name on the neighboring workstation’s order card. Propelled by emotion, not logic, he takes on the delivery himself, arriving to discover his father staring back at him through the floor-to-ceiling window of a major exhibition. Clutching the arrangement tight to his chest, there’s a heavy burden to carry.”

4. Primetime (Lance Oppenheim, Sept. 25)

The year of Robert Pattinson continues. Lance Oppenheim, marking his narrative-feature debut after Some Kind of Heaven and Spermworld, directs the actor as To Catch a Predator‘s Chris Hansen in Primetime, which is set for a Venice premiere. It’ll be curious to see what Oppenheim’s approach is after David Osit’s terrific documentary Predators, which explored the creation, moral complications, and copycat imitators of the original show. But it has the makings of what could be Pattinson’s finest role in a year of stellar offerings.

3. The History of Concrete (John Wilson, Sept. 18)

After a few seasons delighting audiences on HBO, John Wilson is hitting the big screen. The History of Concrete, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, will be familiar to fans of the director’s deadpan, inquisitive style, and he loses no strange charm expanding to feature-length. Caleb Hammond said in his review, “Like a movie tie-in, John Wilson’s debut documentary feature, The History of Concrete, picks up immediately where his HBO series How To with John Wilson left off after three seasons. An elevated public profile does not lead to the next bigger, better project. Instead it’s illustrated via Wilson stumbling upon an empty bag of weed featuring an unauthorized branding of his likeness. The full-sized crew afforded by his show now absent, Wilson is forced back to his roots, filming the day-to-day scenes of New York City life solo.”

2. Serpent’s Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sept. 11)

Coming to U.S. theaters after his recent Cannes premiere The Samurai and the Prisoner, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path finds the director remaking his own film in uncompromising fashion. Steve Erickson said in our fall preview, “Remaking his 1998 film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa gives Serpent’s Path a menacingly polished sheen. Rather than feeling like a B-movie, it’s a slow, stately crawl through warehouses turned into torture chambers as Albert (Damien Bonnard) and Sayoko (Ko Shibasaki) seek to avenge a ring of wealthy child-traffickers who kidnapped and killed their daughters. Setting the story in France rather than the original Japan, he sticks to a few locations and turns the emotional volume way down, creating a chilling vision of manipulation and affectless violence.”

1. Chronovisor (Kevin Walker and Jack Auen, Sept. 4)

In a year of remarkable debuts, one of the most formally astounding comes with Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s unclassifiable, riveting detective-meet-academia tale, Chronovisor. As Leonardo Goi said in our Rotterdam review, “Ostensibly set in the present, Chronovisor keeps jamming your temporal bearings. Save for the occasional smartphone, the ‘action,’ such as it is, unfolds in a world frozen in time (when Béatrice tries to contact one of Ernetti’s surviving relatives, it isn’t an email she sends but a typed letter). The focus gradually moves from the academic-turned-detective toward the media she consults: we hear recordings of a lecture Ernetti gave about his creation, watch old TV footage concerning the man and others who sought to communicate with the dead, but mostly we read. Chronovisor is so enamored with the written word that close-ups of books and articles comprise most of its runtime—with English translations of their various languages dished out not as subtitles but placed directly over the original text on the page. There’s nothing precious about the choice: Auen and Walker want you to read along with Béatrice, and what’s so fascinating about their film is the way it tries to combine two different art forms (literature and cinema) and different actions (reading and watching) all while adjusting its pace to the time needed to perform both.”

More Films to See

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  A winner at Sundance Film Festival of both the Audience Award and Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary section, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes’ One in a Million captures a family’s journey from Syria to Germany and back again across the span of a decade. Now set for a release beginning October 21, the […]

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  A winner at Sundance Film Festival of both the Audience Award and Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary section, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes’ One in a Million captures a family’s journey from Syria to Germany and back again across the span of a decade. Now set for a release beginning October 21, the first trailer has arrived from Frontline.

  Here’s the synopsis: “Filmed over ten years, ONE IN A MILLION follows Israa from childhood to adulthood on an extraordinary journey from Syria to Germany — and back again. We first meet her at age 11 as she and her family are preparing to cross the Aegean Sea, risking everything in search of safety and a better life in Europe. What unfolds is a deeply personal chronicle of war, exile and heartbreak, as Israa grows up navigating adolescence, identity and belonging far from the home she was forced to leave. As Israa settles into life in Germany, new freedoms collide with the stabilizing pull of Syrian traditions, testing bonds and reshaping her sense of self.”

  I said in my Sundance review, “We’re first introduced to Israa at age 11, circa 2015, and witness her family’s harrowing journey by sea from Syria to Greece, then through multiple countries to the ultimate haven of Germany. Before they leave, children note how they are not scared to die while we see the unforgettable image of small toddlers putting on orange life vests. But during the voyage, two kids succumb to the cold, traumatizing Israa as her normally bubbly personality is shaken. Eventually arriving in Germany less than a third into the film, the rest of the journey is not one of physical distance but emotional obstacles, as the next ten years of assimilation deeply affect every fabric of their family unit. One in a Million opens to new perspectives: we start hearing more from Israa’s father Tarek and, eventually, her mother Nisreen as conflicted feelings of adhering to Syrian tradition start clashing with popular culture, growing up, and romance.”

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  After he world-premiered his first music documentary, Junun, at the New York Film Festival in 2015, Paul Thomas Anderson is returning with his second in the genre. Film at Lincoln Center has added the world premiere of Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall to the Spotlight section of the 64th New York Film Festival, debuting on […]

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  After he world-premiered his first music documentary, Junun, at the New York Film Festival in 2015, Paul Thomas Anderson is returning with his second in the genre. Film at Lincoln Center has added the world premiere of Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall to the Spotlight section of the 64th New York Film Festival, debuting on October 1 at Alice Tully Hall on 35mm with PTA and Cameron Winter in attendance. Janus Films and Criterion recently announced their acquisition of the film, which will begin a theatrical roll-out on November 20.

  Here’s the NYFF synopsis: “Even for those who already admired the talents of Brooklyn’s own Cameron Winter, both as a solo artist and as the front man of the band Geese, his performance at Carnegie Hall on December 11, 2025, was a revelation. A stripped-down set in which he accompanied himself on a Steinway grand, the show cemented Winter’s status as a one-of-a-kind cabaret art-pop balladeer, his soaring vibrato resonating throughout a theater known for its legendary acoustics. Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson was there with a crew, including his Licorice Pizza collaborator Benny Safdie, to capture this major star-is-born moment, and the result is a smashing cinematic concert, shot on 16mm and 35mm with a perfect mix of intimate images of Winter and of the cavernous space, keyed into the singer-songwriter’s effortless combination of bravado and sensitivity, darkness and light. A Janus Films and Criterion release.”

  NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim said: “A generational talent delivers a mesmerizing performance before a rapt audience in an iconic venue, and a filmmaker with a rare and instinctive feel for music captures it with the utmost sensitivity: Paul Thomas Anderson’s document of Cameron Winter’s Carnegie Hall triumph is, quite simply, a concert movie for the ages.”

  The 64th New York Film Festival takes place September 25 through October 12, 2026 with passes on sale now. Single tickets go on sale September 15 at noon.

  

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  While recently (and memorably) seen in Marty Supreme, Isaac Mizrahi’s breakout in the world of fashion design is getting a renewed spotlight this fall. Unzipped, Douglas Keeve’s documentary on his contributions in the 1990s, features appearances by Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Eartha Kitt, Kate Moss, Liza Minnelli, Sandra Bernhard, Richard Gere, and more. It’s now […]

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  While recently (and memorably) seen in Marty Supreme, Isaac Mizrahi’s breakout in the world of fashion design is getting a renewed spotlight this fall. Unzipped, Douglas Keeve’s documentary on his contributions in the 1990s, features appearances by Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Eartha Kitt, Kate Moss, Liza Minnelli, Sandra Bernhard, Richard Gere, and more. It’s now been restored and getting a theatrical release courtesy of Janus Films, beginning on September 25 at NYC’s Film Forum. Ahead of the release, the first trailer has landed.

  Digitally restored by the Sundance Institute and UCLA Film & Television Archive. Funding provided by Isaac Mizrahi Entertainment. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc. and Deluxe Media Audio Services.

  Here’s the synopsis: “Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with an effervescent intimacy by Douglas Keeve, Mizrahi’s then-partner. Both a time capsule of the buoyant, raucous 1990s, when pop culture and high art became interchangeable, and a vérité-style, in-the-trenches report on the daily agonies and ecstasies of the creative process, this seminal artistic portrait—sumptuously shot by Ellen Kuras and Robert Leacock—transcends glitz and glamour to offer an extraordinary view of the charisma and force of will inherent to genius, as well as its personal costs.”

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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. The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh) Steven Soderbergh continues to stretch his creative muscles with the light but entertaining dramedy The Christophers, which concerns an aging artist (Ian McKellen) and his […]

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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.

  The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)

  

  Steven Soderbergh continues to stretch his creative muscles with the light but entertaining dramedy The Christophers, which concerns an aging artist (Ian McKellen) and his new “assistant” (Michaela Coel) as they delve into extensive conversations about artistic value, a life of creativity and the sacrifices that entails, and much more. While not reaching the recent highs of the hugely entertaining Black Bag, Ed Solomon’s script and central performances at the center are the main stars, resulting in a film that could be just as effective as a stage play. – Jordan R.

  Where to Stream: Hulu

  Failed State (Christopher Jason Bell, Mitch Blummer)

  

  This indie gem is a gripping slice-of-life character study with an exceptional performance by Dale A. Smith, following his journey as a messenger in NYC. With a loose script giving spotlight to the authenic character at the center, this is a poignantly painful, riveting portarit of our current broken economy. – Jordan R.

  Where to Stream: MeansTV

  Dolly Parton

  

  For those looking to remember the infectious joy of Dolly Parton, a number of her films have been recently added to select streaming service in the wake of her passing. 9 to 5 is on Prime Video and Hulu, Straight Talk on Prime Video, The Beverly Hillbillies on Prime Video, Steel Magnolias on Paramount+, and Rhinestone on The Roku Channel, Joyful Noise on The Roku Channel, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas on VOD.

  Her Private Hell (Nicolas Winding Refn)

  

  The ten years since Nicolas Winding Refn’s prior theatrical feature was just enough time to activate déjà vu when Her Private Hell debuted at Cannes to a mixed-hostile response. While certain of these reactions (like our own) are well stated and eloquently offered, much else rings perfunctory when few directors still attract stars and financing while so staying on their own island. Even as he innovates and surprises, the constituent parts remain consistent: beautiful actors will glare as an ethereal score (usually by Cliff Martinez, this time from Pino Donaggio) underlines constant dread and—if you ask partisans—some greater concept about the aestheticization of rage (particularly as it’s rooted in genre convention) emerges. Continue reading Nick Newman’s interview.

  Where to Stream: VOD

  I Only Rest In The Storm (Pedro Pinho) 

  

  A bolt from the blue. From the outset, Pinho establishes a temporal plane that will be familiar to fans of the work of Abdellatif Kechiche and Miguel Gomes, filmmakers for whom every scene is an opportunity to craft a sequence where affective relations between different people from various cultures can be staged, where the outsider never gains entrance. It doesn’t hurt that you can’t take your eyes off its gorgeous cast: Sérgio Coragem, Jonathan Guilherme, and Un Certain Regard best-actress-winning Cleo Diára. Its unabashed depiction of sex won me over, solidified in the best surprise threesome of the year, in addition to actively taking on the aftereffects of the history of colonialism with an immersive, dirty realism amplified by Carpotxa and Mazulu’s incantatory music. I had never heard of Pinho before this, but after 217 minutes, I’m a fan. – Nirris N. (top 10 films of 2025)

  Where to Stream: Letterboxd Video Store

  Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)

  

  RaMell Ross––the Brown University film professor and writer-director behind 2018’s stunning impressionist portrait of rural Alabama life, Hale County This Morning, This Evening––made a splash with his second film and fiction debut Nickel Boys. This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel is a tender, enchanting movie that quickly develops a mood-defining dread stemming from America’s ugly history with abusive juvenile centers for Black boys. Innovatively shot in first-person to gripping effect, it follows Elwood Curtis, a young man wrongly detained at the Nickel Academy, as he develops a life-changing friendship and navigates the nightmares of Nickel, where the unmarked graves of rule-breaking children haunt the kids who still have to walk its grounds. Bouncing back and forth between Elwood’s days at Nickel and his adult life researching its crimes, Ross submerges us in what feels like a lifetime of beauty and trauma. – Luke H.

  Where to Stream: MUBI

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  Returning with his first feature since 2008’s Ballast, Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea premiered at Berlinale earlier this year and will now be hitting theaters on October 30. Led by Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay, with cinematography by Academy Award nominee Adolpho Veloso (Train Dreams), Greenwich Entertainment has now released the first trailer. Here’s the […]

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  Returning with his first feature since 2008’s Ballast, Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea premiered at Berlinale earlier this year and will now be hitting theaters on October 30. Led by Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay, with cinematography by Academy Award nominee Adolpho Veloso (Train Dreams), Greenwich Entertainment has now released the first trailer.

  Here’s the synopsis: “Amanda and her stepfather Martin struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother Leslie, who has dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination? As Amanda and Martin are forced to make increasingly difficult choices, the repercussions spiral out of their control. Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche (The Taste of Things), Academy Award nominee Tom Courtenay (45 Years), Anna Calder-Marshall (Wuthering Heights), and Florence Hunt (Bridgerton) star in this unflinching drama. The film won the Silver Bear Jury Prize and Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival.”

  Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Eleven years ago, Tom Courtenay arrived at the Berlinale with Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, an exquisitely observed study of emotional dilemma in which the British actor played a doddery romantic whose selfish tendencies threatened to get the better of him. He returns to the German festival with a performance of similar weight and resonance in Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea, a film that centers on an even more challenging moral dilemma—albeit with results that are slightly less delightfully ambiguous than those Haigh managed in 2015.”

  See the trailer below.

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