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DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES Trailer: A Trio of Friends Go On A Different Kind of Road Trip in New Drama
After her stunning 2019 feature debut, Test Pattern, writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford is back with a new drama that measures the strength of friendship and chosen family. Dreams In Nightmares stars Denée Benton, Sasha Compère, and Dezi Bing as a
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A Conversation with Harry Dodge & Silas Howard (BY HOOK OR BY CROOK)
By Hook or by Crook arrived in 2001 as the kind of film queer and trans cinema needed before the culture knew how to ask for it. Written, directed by, and starring Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, the film emerged from
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A Conversation with Reed Birney, Kieron Moore & Elliot Tuttle (BLUE FILM)
Blue Film is one of the most daring American debuts in recent memory. Written and directed by Elliot Tuttle, the film traps two men in a Los Angeles Airbnb for a single night and refuses to let either of them
Interviews
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A Conversation with Harry Dodge & Silas Howard (BY HOOK OR BY CROOK)
By Hook or by Crook arrived in 2001 as the kind of film queer and trans cinema needed before the culture knew how to ask for it. Written, directed by, and starring Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, the film emerged from
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A Conversation with Reed Birney, Kieron Moore & Elliot Tuttle (BLUE FILM)
Blue Film is one of the most daring American debuts in recent memory. Written and directed by Elliot Tuttle, the film traps two men in a Los Angeles Airbnb for a single night and refuses to let either of them
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A Conversation with Sébastien Laudenbach (VIVA CARMEN)
Mainstream feature animation has become an airless thing. Every frame is locked down, every surface polished, every emotional beat pre-chewed for the audience. Sébastien Laudenbach works in the opposite direction. His characters seem to have just been drawn, his colors
Trailers
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DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES Trailer: A Trio of Friends Go On A Different Kind of Road Trip in New Drama
After her stunning 2019 feature debut, Test Pattern, writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford is back with a new drama that measures the strength of friendship and chosen family. Dreams In Nightmares stars Denée Benton, Sasha Compère, and Dezi Bing as a
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM Teaser Trailer: William and David Greaves Take Us Back in Time in Their Decades-In-The-Making Opus
Having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a documentary you should not sleep on this year. The film consists entirely of footage shot in 1972 at a party that took
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FATHERLAND Trailer: Sandra Hüller Takes a Post-WWII Road Trip With Thomas Mann in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Profound Drama
Oscar-winning director Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida; Cold War) is back at the helm with a new historical stunner shot in his signature black-and-white. Fatherland centers on life in post-World War II Germany through the eyes of legendary author Thomas Mann (Hans
In Theatres
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A Conversation with Harry Dodge & Silas Howard (BY HOOK OR BY CROOK)
By Hook or by Crook arrived in 2001 as the kind of film queer and trans cinema needed before the culture knew how to ask for it. Written, directed by, and starring Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, the film emerged from
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A Conversation with Reed Birney, Kieron Moore & Elliot Tuttle (BLUE FILM)
Blue Film is one of the most daring American debuts in recent memory. Written and directed by Elliot Tuttle, the film traps two men in a Los Angeles Airbnb for a single night and refuses to let either of them
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WITH HASAN IN GAZA
(Check out Anders Ljung’s With Hasan in Gaza movie review, it is in theaters now via Cinema Guild. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Kamal Aljafari’s documentary With Hasan in Gaza arrives not as an excavation of
Watch at Home
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AGAIN AGAIN
(The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival runs May 7-17th in and around Seattle. Check out Jessica Baxter’s Again Again movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For their feature debut, co-directors Heather Ballish and Mia
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A BODY TO LIVE IN
(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s A Body to Live In movie review, it hits Blu-ray May 26. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) "Body is the door to Spirit” What is a body (and to what extent can a body be
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THE TALLEST DWARF
(Check out Chris Reed’s The Tallest Dwarf movie review, the film premieres on PBS Monday, April 6. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Those who stand outside what society considers normative usually face discrimination of some sort, put


