(Check out Ray Lobo’s movie review of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman which opens in theaters on February 20, 2023. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Adapting the work of literary luminaries is never an easy feat. […]

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(Miami Film Festival GEMS 2022 ran November 3-10 in Miami, FL. Check out Ray Lobo’s movie review of Close which played the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s review of Masking Threshold, in select theaters September 30th & Available on Digital October 7th via Drafthouse Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Masking Threshold is the result of a bizarre […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s movie review of Salomé Jashi’s documentary Taming the Garden, streaming now on Mubi. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Fishermen looking onto the endless blue of the Black Sea gives the opening […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s movie review of Mathieu Amalric’s latest film Hold Me Tight is in select theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The melancholy that runs through Hold Me Tight is a distinct one. […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s review of Marx Can Wait, available now on Mubi. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page). Marco Bellocchio’s films have alternated between the personal–Fists in the Pocket— and the political—Vincere. His latest film […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s movie review of The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), it’s available now on VOD. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page). As a child I occasionally mused about being raised by different parents […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s Vitalina Varela movie review. It’s now playing as part of the Metrograph A-Z series. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page). Vitalina Varela is a film profoundly concerned with abandonment. Director Pedro Costa […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s movie review of The Wobblies, now playing at the Metrograph. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Unionization drives at Amazon warehouses and Starbucks locales make the 4K restoration of Stewart Bird and Deborah […]

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(Check out this movie review of The White Fortress, it was Bosnia and Herzegovina’s selection to represent them at the 94th Academy Awards. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Director Igor Drljaca’s The White Fortress opens […]

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