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Nov 26, 2019 — A smart and lively adaptation of a 150-year-old classic is warmly greeted in the first round of reviews.
Aug 30, 2019 — In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations, after being censured for its invasion of Manchuria. Despite this, the majority of Japanese people remained avid consumers of American movies and Western fashion, which exasperated the militarists in power. A...
Aug 15, 2019 — The Film Lucille Carra’s 1991 film The Inland Sea is a selective adaptation of the classic 1971 travelogue/memoir of the same name by the renowned expert on all things Japanese—and for cinephiles, the man who was most profoundly instrumental in...
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Jun 12, 2019 — Some of the best new independent films of the past year are lined up for the eleventh edition.
May 21, 2019 — Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In (2017) is one of the great films about middle-aged loneliness, specifically—though not exclusively—as women feel it. It’s not a dating movie, though there’s dating in it. And it’s not a feeling-sorry-for-oneself movie, though there are...
Nov 5, 2018 — With the gradual rollout of his two-part semi-musical, Wang is seeing his strongest reviews yet.
Jul 17, 2018 — The festival has become a fertile hunting ground for discerning programmers.
Jan 24, 2018 — One of the most memorable sequences in the silent classic People on Sunday explores the experience of being photographed and the tension between still and moving images.
In Theaters
Nov 9, 2017 — Big Theater Tomorrow night, the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will spool up a 35 mm print of Max Ophuls’s The Earrings of Madame de . . . (1953), a film selected by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, who will...
Sep 3, 2017 — “With writer-director James Toback, you never know quite what you’re going to get, quality-wise,” writes Glenn Kenny at RogerEbert.com. “What you do know you’re going to get is something very indicative of the personality of James Toback—defiant, searching, self-indulgent, absurdist,...