Sex Work in 1970s Japan Gets the Spotlight in Exclusive Trailer for Noboru Tanaka’s Newly Restored The Oldest Profession
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After Sean Baker’s sex work dramedy Anora won top honors at the Oscars last week, a Japanese landmark feature from Roman Porno master director Noboru Tanaka exploring the profession has been restored and is getting a U.S. release. The Oldest...
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7 Films to See at MoMI’s First Look 2025
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A snapshot of the most exciting voices working in American and international cinema today––and with a strong focus on newcomers––the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival returns this week, taking place March 12-16.  As always, the festival brings together...
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Léa Seydoux, Elle Fanning, and Luca Marinelli Lead New Trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
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While this is, admittedly, Not A Movie, Hideo Kojima has perhaps come closest to bridging the video game-cinema divide, either through decades of indispensable work or the recent assistance of A24. It helps collecting onscreen talent that would make any...
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The Film Stage Presents Emulsion: Episode One
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“Why on Earth is there another film podcast?” Is the question you, the reasonable listener, will ask while nevertheless hitting play on this pilot-of-sorts for yet another entry in perhaps the seventh art’s most undignified progeny. Stop me if you’ve...
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You Burn Me Review: Matías Piñeiro Muses on Sapphic Fragments and Unrequited Love
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In You Burn Me, the Argentinian littérateur-filmmaker Matías Piñeiro uses his vintage Bolex camera like the iOS Notes app. Shooting over the course of a few years, his method involved “collecting” images here and there amidst teaching jobs on two...
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New to Streaming: Gene Hackman, Michael Mann, Vermiglio, CHAOS: The Manson Murders & More
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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. CHAOS: The Manson Murders (Errol Morris) Over half a century later, what new information...
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CHAOS: The Manson Murders Review: Errol Morris Succinctly Investigates a Complex Conspiracy
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Over half a century later, what new information can be gleaned from the nights of August 9 and 10, 1969? Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring’s riveting (if convoluted) book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the...
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NYC Weekend Watch: La Clef, Matías Piñeiro Selects, The Lady from Shanghai & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Brooklyn Center for Theatre ResearchMy screening series Amnesiascope hosts the La Clef Revival Collective for a screening of Bye Bye Tiberias this Sunday. SpectacleMeanwhile, La Clef presents Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s Dernier...
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Black Bag Review: Steven Soderbergh Delivers Slick, Barbed Spy Thriller
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If a James Bond or Mission: Impossible film excised all its action scenes––save a stray explosion or gunshot––while employing a script with a pop John le Carré sensibility, it might resemble something like Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. A hyper-slick, suave...
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Bruno Dumont on The Empire, Star Wars, and the Maelstrom of Human Nature
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Initially considered the heir to Robert Bresson, Bruno Dumont shocked audiences in 2014 with the heel-turn of his Twin Peaks-inspired miniseries P’tit Quinquin, which (were it not television) would certainly earn the label of An Extremely Goofy Movie. His switch...
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