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Jan 9, 2020 — MoMA presents an eclectic selection of new restorations and discoveries from around the world.
Dec 3, 2019 — Performances If there was one mother-daughter television date my busy mum was always willing to down tools for, it was a Bette Davis movie. Her favorite—and mine, for the preteen period when I gave the thumbs-up to anything my mother...
Nov 22, 2019 — Jean-Jacques Beineix’s vibrant art-house sensation Betty Blue (1986) introduced to the world, in twenty-one-year-old Béatrice Dalle, an extraordinary new acting talent. Fully inhabiting the warmth, sexiness, and increasingly violent self-destructiveness of the title character, whose stormy love affair with an...
Nov 20, 2019 — A sprawling, sweeping period romance that plays out over the course of fifteen years and across several national borders, Cold War is also, for acclaimed filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, a highly personal work. His own parents’ marriage served as Pawlikowski’s primary...
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Sep 23, 2019 — By the dawn of the eighties, Divine had already made an outsize impression in a handful of John Waters features, playing insolent women on the wrong side of the law in cult films such as Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble,...
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Sep 18, 2019 — Adam Sandler plays a jeweler addicted to risk in the brothers’ new exhilarating—and exhausting—new film.
Criterion Designs
Aug 7, 2019 — Studio Visits Brooklyn native Danielle Mastrion draws a great deal of inspiration from the city that she calls home—and also often uses it as her canvas. A socially conscious, classically trained painter who taught herself to work in aerosol, Mastrion...
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Jul 18, 2019 — The director’s first film made outside of Japan stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, and Ludivine Sagnier.
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Jun 21, 2019 — Can the movies survive? Can rotten people be great artists? Are we all doomed?
May 24, 2019 — Elia Suleiman, who returned to Cannes this year with his latest film, talks with us about comedy as a form of political resistance.