Having spent over a decade and a half mining cinematic nonfiction gems on the festival beat, only a handful of doc fests remain on my bucket list (Thessaloniki, I’m available). Which is why it was a bit of a thrill […]

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(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Josephine movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with […]

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(Check out Jessica Baxter’s Pulp: What Do You Do for An Encore? movie review, it hits VOD Friday, September 25. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Garth Jennings remembers Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker from his days […]

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(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s The Daughters of Abraham movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join […]

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(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s The History of Concrete movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “The History of Concrete? That doesn’t sound very interesting,” says the teenager. “The title isn’t intended […]

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One film that came out of nowhere and set the film community on fire is Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary, You Can See Everything. Announced as a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the film follows Fielder […]

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(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Elsinore movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with […]

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After diving into his childhood in his 2022 coming-of-age drama Armageddon Time, writer-director James Gray isn’t done going back in time to his NYC roots. Having premiered at this year’s Cannes and set as the Opening Night film for this year’s […]

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Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, cinematographer Marine Atlan’s directorial debut La Gradiva is a sun-kissed coming-of-age drama that transports viewers to the streets and ruins of Naples. It follows a group of […]

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(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Anchors Aweigh  movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the […]

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