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Neyat Yohannes is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in MUBI Notebook, Bright Wall/Dark Room, KQED Arts, Cleo Film Journal, and the Chicago Review of Books, among other publications. She also sometimes tweets at @rhymeswithcat.
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Jan 17, 2020 — Cocteau in the ’50s, Jane Fonda in the ’60s, and Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in the ’70s feature in this week’s round.
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Sep 22, 2026 — The Museum of Modern Art celebrates six decades of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and the Millennium Film Workshop.
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Sep 8, 2026 — Riding raves for Lee and his four leads, the film heads next to Toronto and New York.
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Jun 16, 2025 — The New York theater screens films by Miranda July, William Lustig, D. A. Pennebaker, and Yasujiro Ozu.
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Oct 21, 2022 — The Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum present twelve features by a vital figure in the Japanese New Wave.
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Jan 25, 2018 — Charlie Kaufman, pictured above at work on his last feature, Anomalisa (2015), with co-director Duke Johnson, “is set to write and direct a film adaptation of Iain Reid’s internationally best selling novel I’m Thinking of Ending Things for Netflix,” announces...
Sneak Peeks
Oct 16, 2017 — Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska talks about the myths and fairy tales that inspired her to conceive the mermaids in her debut feature, The Lure.
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Dec 9, 2017 — Ruben Östlund’s The Square has swept the thirtieth round of European Film Awards in Berlin during a ceremony in which EFA president Wim Wenders issued an urgent call for the revitalization of the European project as a corrective to rising...