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Sep 28, 2021 — Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films Come on now, honey sugarYou know your baby loveYou know just the other dayI was gonna take you to go see a movieSweet Sweetback . . . Stevie Wonder, “Sweet Little Girl,” 1972 We went...

Sep 28, 2021 — The first Black-directed movie musical of the modern film era, Melvin Van Peebles’s drama illuminates the cultural and political concerns of working-class Black people with delight and fancy.

Sep 24, 2021 — The celebration of the life and work of the filmmaker, novelist, rebel, and father has just begun.

Aug 26, 2021 — Steven Soderbergh lines up another series and adaptations of novels by Colson Whitehead and Taffy Brodesser-Akner are in the works.

Aug 12, 2021 — Gleaning the best of Cannes, Berlin, and Sundance, NYFF programmers have selected thirty-two features from nearly as many countries.

Jul 22, 2021 — Quentin Tarantino’s first novel and studies of Ophuls and Melville are among this month’s new and noteworthy titles.

Jul 13, 2021 — Miles: I just sold a building on the Lower East Side and tripled my money Molly: There’s a lot of that happening these days. Released the year before Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987), Working Girls, a film about sex work, is a sharper by far...

Jun 21, 2021 — The New York festival has presented its awards, premiered a star-studded heist movie, and thrown a party.

Jun 8, 2021 — The selection features new work from Joanna Hogg, Clio Barnard, Jonas Carpignano, Radu Muntean, and Peter Tscherkassky.

Jun 4, 2021 — The festival returns with a full-to-bursting official selection that includes an entirely new program.