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This week we’re reading about Setsuko Hara, Satyajit Ray, Buster Keaton, Rita Azevedo Gomes, and Beyoncé.

The renowned documentarian allows prisoners in Iran to tell their own stories.

Lucrecia Martel, Lav Diaz, Helena Wittmann, and Lisandro Alonso are among the directors who will present projects interrupted by the pandemic.

The NYFF lines up three films by Steve McQueen, Venice adds two titles, and Telluride reveals the lineup for the edition that would have been.

The British director of sprightly musicals, wrenching family dramas, and gripping political thrillers was seventy-six.

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This week we’re reading about Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard, Luchino Visconti, Amy Seimetz, and the cinematic allure of fictional cults.

The festival of new restorations will host the Venice Classics program and celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation.

The show must go on. The festival presents a lineup of new work from Frederick Wiseman, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ann Hui, Lav Diaz, Abel Ferrara, and more.

Having won the hearts of audiences and costars, one of the brightest lights of Hollywood’s golden age also scored a landmark victory in the courts.

Venice, Toronto, Telluride, and New York will present Zhao’s third feature starring Frances McDormand.

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On our minds this week: Bruce Lee’s legacy, Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopia, Hitchcock’s hands, and those Black Lives Matter movie lists.

Here’s the latest on how Venice, Toronto, Locarno, and other festivals are radically rethinking this year’s editions.

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Studio Ghibli for the kids, Bergman and Pasolini for the grownups, and more highlights from the week that was.

This month’s round features reviews of books on Jacques Tati, Kelly Reichardt, Terrence Malick, Jordan Peele, and many more.

We’d hoped to be making and watching movies in theaters again by now. That’s not happening, so now what?

Kaufman’s sprawling first novel is being met with generally positive reviews. And his next movie will premiere on Netflix in September.

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This week’s highlights come in pairs: Bill and Turner Ross, Michaela Coel and Thandie Newton, Bradford Young and Ava DuVernay, and more.

As festivals around the world carry on revising their plans, Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and New York band together.

The renowned composer of well over four hundred film scores was equally at home in avant experimentation and tear-jerking sentimentality.

Kore-eda’s first feature shot outside of Japan also gives us the first pairing of Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche.

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A new issue of Cinema Scope, a State of Cinema address from Olivier Assayas, and the Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown are among this week’s highlights.

New issues of photogénie, Comparative Cinema, and SCMS+ take on an array of raging crises.

The actor, writer, and director was one of the most beloved comedians of his generation.

The new issue ranges from experimental nonfiction to a Pixar feature, from a ten-screen installation to Watchmen.