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Oct 12, 2017 — Tonight, Griffin Dunne will be at the Walter Reade Theater to take part in a Q&A following a screening of the documentary he’s made about his aunt, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. The New York Film Festival will...
Essays
Nov 21, 2005 — Akira Kurosawa’s late masterpiece is a tragedy fed by Shakespeare, Noh, and the samurai epic; it shows human brutality, warfare, and suffering as if from the eye of a dispassionate God.
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Apr 9, 2026 — Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Asghar Farhadi, Paweł Pawlikowski, Na Hong-jin, Cristian Mungiu, and Ira Sachs are headed into the main competition.
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Mar 25, 2026 — The Harvard Film Archive celebrates the first decade of work by a key figure of the Japanese New Wave.
Sep 11, 2025 — For J. Hoberman, the film “more than makes the case for Fonda’s centrality in the American imaginary.”
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Jul 21, 2025 — Summer offers new biographies and memoirs, expansively big ideas, and more than a few curious fictions.
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Feb 28, 2025 — We’ve gathered some of the best writing on each of the nominees for Best Picture Oscar.
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Feb 7, 2025 — The week brings fresh appreciations of Sara Gómez, Frederick Wiseman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vittorio De Sica, and David Lynch.
Mar 26, 2024 — In Gus Van Sant’s wickedly funny tale of suburban depravity, Nicole Kidman plays a vacuous weather reporter whose hunger for fame anticipates our own era of digital celebrity.
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Apr 27, 2023 — The critic and filmmaker has put together a series that celebrates “a New York of the collective imagination.”