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Jun 23, 2025 — The director followed up on his cult classic House (1977) with four tales of teen love, magic, and memory.
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May 13, 2025 — Here’s a sampling of what we can look forward to in each of the festival’s programs.
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Apr 17, 2025 — At eighty-two, the director has made his most deeply personal film yet.
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Apr 11, 2025 — We’re paging through the new Millennium Film Journal and reading elsewhere about William S. Burroughs, Pauline Kael, and John Ford.
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Jan 21, 2025 — In his first Hollywood film, British director Stephen Frears dives into the nihilistic world of Jim Thompson’s fiction, delivering an adaptation profoundly attuned to the novelist’s sense of ineluctable suffering.
Jul 23, 2024 — Chen Kaige’s sweeping epic chronicles the history of twentieth-century China through the story of two childhood friends, contrasting the unchanging traditions of their Beijing-opera milieu with the nation’s swift and turbulent transformation.
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Dec 7, 2023 — Nearly half of the films premiering in January will come from first-time directors, but there’ll also be new work from Steven Soderbergh and Richard Linklater.
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Nov 14, 2023 — The leading editorial voice of Positif, the great critic and historian gave us essential books on Kubrick and Campion.
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Jan 30, 2023 — The festival is sending around two dozen award-winners out into an uncertain marketplace.
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Oct 18, 2022 — The winner of top nonfiction awards at Sundance, Cannes, and London arrives in theaters.