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Aug 6, 2024 — Seventeen features are lined up to compete for the top prize in Locarno.
Jul 25, 2024 — During a tumultuous period in New York’s history, movies like Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, and Shaft found excitement and squalor in one of the city’s most infamous tourist attractions.
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Jul 23, 2024 — The festival will premiere new work from Pedro Almodóvar, Alice Rohrwacher, Alfonso Cuarón, and Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Jul 23, 2024 — Unlike the string of early-1980s sex comedies that it superficially resembles, Paul Brickman’s debut feature fuses fierce social satire and dark, dreamy eroticism with unexpectedly rich and ambiguous results.
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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Jul 19, 2024 — We’re looking back to films by Pakula and Oshima, and from the 1990s, by Claire Denis and Richard Shepard.
Interviews
Jul 18, 2024 — A pioneer of the 1980s downtown New York arts scene, the director of Sleepwalk talks about navigating her creative life in the city and the inspiration she has taken from mythology, fairy tales, and cinéma fantastique.
Jul 16, 2024 — In one of the most patient films he has ever made, Wim Wenders captures how everyday existence drifts into our dream lives.
Jul 15, 2024 — Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay’s new book assesses the history and future of transness in cinema.
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Jun 27, 2024 — This year’s edition offers discoveries, restored classics, and plenty of star power.