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Feb 18, 2022 — This week we’re celebrating pioneers of queer cinema and reading about Melville, Menelik Shabazz, Patrick Wang, and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Feb 16, 2022 — Among the notable titles competing this year are new films from Sho Miyake, Gastón Solnicki, and Ashley McKenzie.
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Feb 15, 2022 — Films from Italy, Iceland, and the Central African Republic each map the dynamic between four friends.
Feb 11, 2022 — The director discusses the making of his 1979 cult road movie, Radio On, which is now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel, and the influence of New German Cinema on his visual style.
Feb 2, 2022 — Released in 1972, Perry Henzell’s thrilling drama The Harder They Come, starring real-life reggae icon Jimmy Cliff as singer-turned-outlaw Ivanhoe Martin, was among the first films to prominently feature reggae music both as subject matter and on its soundtrack. The...
Jan 31, 2022 — Movies are about looking, and no one involved in the making of a film is more directly responsible for the frames we look at than a cinematographer, or director of photography. Together with the director, the cinematographer shapes the visual...
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Jan 19, 2022 — The competition will premiere new work from Hong Sangsoo, Claire Denis, Ursula Meier, Denis Côté, Ulrich Seidl, and Paolo Taviani.
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Jan 18, 2022 — MoMA’s festival of film preservation presents Beat poets, crown jewels, a lonely Hungarian, and a Senegalese bad boy.
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Jan 13, 2022 — Berlin announces a “new concept” for this year’s in-person edition, Sundance adds two films, and Slamdance will launch a Channel.
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Jan 6, 2022 — With the Omicron wave on the verge of peaking, Sundance calls off this year’s in-person events.