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Bleak Week 2025

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Jun 2, 2025 More than a hundred films likely to make you feel bad in all the best ways will screen in eight cities this month.

February Books

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Feb 26, 2025 This month brings deep dives into the work of Ken Loach and Radu Jude as well as new books on Isabelle Huppert, Holly Woodlawn, and more.

Jun 8, 2021 The selection features new work from Joanna Hogg, Clio Barnard, Jonas Carpignano, Radu Muntean, and Peter Tscherkassky.

Better Parts

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May 22, 2026 This week brings a look back at Cronenberg’s Crash and conversations with Boots Riley and Wallace Shawn.

Oct 1, 2017 “Sean Baker follows his 2015 breakout feature Tangerine with another high-energy movie about people whose imaginations are undaunted by living on the margins,” begins Amy Taubin, introducing her interview with the director for Film Comment. “In The Florida Project, six-year-old...

Sep 17, 2017 “Clio Barnard is the fiercely intelligent, visually inventive and innovative film-maker who gave us the brilliant docu-hybrid The Arbor and then The Selfish Giant, an inspired interpretation of Oscar Wilde set in Bradford,” begins the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. “Her third...

Dec 5, 2023 A tight-lipped stranger arrives in a gold-mining town. After checking into a hotel, he heads to Charlie’s Saloon, one of those gambling palaces with glittering chandeliers and be-feathered hostesses. He is told that Charlie “runs the town” and “owns a...

May 11, 2021 When Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out, in the summer of 1982, I was almost exactly the same age as Jennifer Jason Leigh’s Stacy Hamilton, getting ready to start my sophomore year in high school. Like Stacy’s world-weary older...

Nov 23, 2018 The work of James Agee (1909–1955) remains one of the touchstones of American movie criticism. An extraordinarily versatile writer, he won acclaim as a novelist, a poet, and a screenwriter (his scripts for The African Queen and The Night of the...

Mar 16, 2026 Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another wins six, and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners wins four.

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