The Scout opens this Friday at Film Forum in NYC. Below is Matt Delman’s interview with Director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser and star Mimi Davila, edited for length and clarity. You can also read his full review here. Hammer to Nail: I […]

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In The Smell of Apples, South African director John Trengrove examines the dawning consciousness of an Afrikaner boy as he begins to realize the horrors of the apartheid system. An adaptation of the 1993 book by Mark Behr, the movie […]

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With his latest film, Wild Wild East, Polish director Jan Holoubek has combined the Western with a noirish thriller and thrown the mix into the middle of World War II. The year is 1943, and a mysterious stranger rides into […]

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“Enjoy it those of you who are alive. The world is fantastic.” — (at the time) oldest person Maria Branyas Morera [via social media] A decade in the making—from July 2015 to July 2025—or a lifetime. Several lifetimes, admittedly! Individually […]

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In 1989, Julie Thayer traveled to the Swiss Alps looking for something few people would willingly seek: the destruction of her own ego. There, she joined U.G. Krishnamurti, the radical Indian anti-guru who rejected virtually every convention associated with spiritual […]

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Mas Bouzidi’s Concessions is a love letter to movie theaters wrapped in the melancholy of their disappearance. Shot entirely on 16mm at the Lafayette Theater in upstate New York, the film chronicles the final day at the closing Royal Alamo […]

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Hirokazu Kore-eda has spent his career making quiet, humane films about families, and he won the Palme d’Or for one of them, Shoplifters, in 2018. Sheep in the Box, his seventeenth feature, keeps its attention on parents and children but […]

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Arthur Schnitzler wrote Late Fame in the 1890s and never published it. The manuscript sat in his archive for more than a century before it surfaced, which makes it fitting material for a movie about an artist rediscovered decades too […]

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Below is a spoilery add-on to Jack Scehnker’s earlier conversation with Nicolas Winding Refn and features one of the stars of Her Private Hell, Charles Melton. Be sure to check out the full Winding Refn interview here.   ****SPOILER WARNING!!****   Hammer […]

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Nicolas Winding Refn has been one of my favorite filmmakers since I first saw Drive as a kid. In the years since, I have watched every Refn picture across every format he has worked in, from the grainy Copenhagen of […]

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