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Feb 12, 2019 — The competition is struggling as China yanks one film and theater owners threaten another.
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Feb 8, 2019 — He became a star in Britain’s “angry young men” era, but some of his best work would come decades later.
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Feb 8, 2019 — Norman Jewison and Ray Charles, Jules Feiffer and Alain Renais, and Jia Zhangke and Apple.
Feb 6, 2019 — On the Criterion edition of Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong describes his creative process as one of utter despair. That should come as no surprise to anyone who knows his work. Since making his feature debut, Green Fish, in 1997 at...
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Feb 4, 2019 — All four of this year’s top prizewinners have been directed or codirected by women.
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Feb 1, 2019 — Rotterdam and Vanity Fair get a cinephile’s dream roster of filmmakers talking about their work.
In Theaters
Jan 31, 2019 — Repertory Picks Tomorrow, two of Jackie Chan’s most furiously entertaining blockbusters will swing their way back into theaters, as Police Story (1985) and Police Story 2 (1988) begin a run at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse in new 4K restorations, courtesy of...
Production Notes
Jan 31, 2019 — Trailblazer Elaine May altered the landscape of comedy and screenwriting, and in the three films she directed in the 1970s—A New Leaf (1971) , The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and Mikey and Nicky (1976)—she brought a fresh, often uncomfortable perspective to the portrayal of...
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Jan 30, 2019 — An exhibition, a film series, and of course, If Beale Street Could Talk are markers of heightened interest in the writer, activist, and cinephile.
Jan 28, 2019 — With WR: Mysteries of the Organism, the late Serbian director made what Amos Vogel called “one of the most important subversive masterpieces of the 1970s.”