Jul 9, 2001 Director Bruce Robinson reminisces about the days that inspired his uproarious black comedy.

Nov 13, 2000 All the opening bands had finished playing, and it was time for the Stones to come out. The sun was still out and there was plenty of daylight left. The crowd had waited all day to see the Stones perform,...

Sid & Nancy

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Oct 18, 1998 1986 was not a good time to make a film which attempted to capture the Punk spirit. Deep into second-term Reagan/Thatcher, American and British pop culture were infected with cynicism, hopelessness, immobility. So when Alex Cox came over with his...

Naked

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Jul 4, 1994 Mike Leigh was born in the north of England in 1943. He was trained in the theater at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in film at the London Film School. When he arrived in London in the early...

Mar 19, 2025 The festival’s twenty-fifth edition offers a five-day binge of midnight movies.

Aug 12, 2024 The great actor creates an unforgettable portrait of a man worn down by the world in Tamara Jenkins’s darkly funny and deeply moving family drama.

Nov 25, 2020 A camera dollies down a hallway into the interior of a nursing home: the opening of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019) prompts a foreboding that seeps into all that follows. The Five Satins’ 1956 doo-wop classic “In the Still of...

Mar 1, 2019 Barbara Hammer gives an “exit interview,” Béla Tarr discusses Sátántangó, and Neil Jordan writes about the projects that got away.

Jul 19, 2018 Repertory Picks This weekend, the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will plunge into the shadows, as the theater launches its fifteenth-annual Festival of Film Noir, a celebration spanning ten days, five double features, and countless criminal acts. The festival...

Feb 12, 2007 The trailblazing career of the extraordinary singer, actor, and activist was pivotal to the emergence of a black film aesthetic and, by extension, an African-American cultural identity.

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