With it’s Tribeca debut serendipitously falling within Pride Month, the documentary I Was Born this Way is a beaming celebration of identity – in all shapes, sizes, colors, forms, and fonts. The film, an exploration into the life of the […]

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The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year’s Centrepiece section (previously named Contemporary World Cinema), featuring 47 films from 45 countries. The highlights in this lineup include Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, Víctor […]

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The 76th Cannes Film Festival came to a close today as the Ruben Östlund-headed jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Justine Triet’s courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. The festival ran from May 16 to 27. The in-competition lineup featured […]

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One of the highlights of this year’s SXSW is arriving next month. Ted Geoghegan’s supernatural horror Brooklyn 45 stars Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, and Kristina Klebe as military veterans who unexpectedly find themselves […]

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What would you do if you learned your most significant support and trust system secretly criticized your work? Writer-director Nicole Holofcener tackles this question head-on in her latest comedy, You Hurt My Feelings. It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, in her second […]

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One of the most anticipated films of the fall festival season is writer-director Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection. Known for his intimate and empathetic documentary Pier Kids, Bratton makes his narrative feature debut which will have its world premiere at the […]

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Danish filmmaker Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil was one of the most bizarre, shocking films that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. With amounts of both terror and dark humor, it centers on two families from different European countries […]

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The festival on the Croisette has concluded. After two weeks of breathtaking international cinema, the 75th Cannes Film Festival came to a close with the announcement of the winners, all culminating in the prestigious Palme d’Or. The lineup featured exciting […]

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Comparisons have been made to Napoleon Dynamite, which seems fair given the fact they are both Sundance oddities with a distinct style. Like that film, Dinner in America is a true discovery bound for cult-classic status.

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Chloe Okuno’s chilling directorial debut Watcher premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and is now screening at SXSW. In this tale of stalking and gaslighting, she cast modern-day scream queen Maika Monroe (It Follows) as the protagonist who questions […]

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