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Feb 7, 2020 — Retrospectives of the German filmmaker’s work precede the release of I Was at Home, But . . . (2019)
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Feb 5, 2020 — MoMA’s annual festival of nonfiction film and media is “eclectic by design.”
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Feb 3, 2020 — Young filmmakers from Asia have won over audiences and juries alike at this year’s festival.
Jan 29, 2020 — It is almost impossible to discuss Sidney Lumet’s Cold War thriller Fail Safe without also considering its more financially successful cinematic foil and fellow 1964 Columbia Pictures release, Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to...
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Jan 6, 2020 — 1917 is now repositioned as a late frontrunner in the Oscar race.
Essays
Dec 12, 2019 — Almost from the moment it arrived on screens in early 2006, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy was celebrated as a new milestone for American cinema, even an expression of independent filmmaking’s delayed arrival at maturity. In relating its deceptively simple tale...
Features
Nov 15, 2019 — It’s a strange feeling: adoring cinema while at the same time always sensing that it’s not made for you. This is how I felt growing up, at least. I came of age watching movies, crushing on them so hard that...
Nov 13, 2019 — Flowers and vegetables pulse, slither, and take dirigible flight; a horse becomes a pampered, petulant lover; a diminutive porcelain mouse transforms into a muscled superhero to save a beleaguered heroine: these are just some of the arresting images in the...
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Oct 31, 2019 — A series of films by one of India’s greatest and most fiercely independent directors opens in New York.
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Oct 17, 2019 — Two series offer a wide range of thematic and historical perspectives on the Japanese capital.