After unveiling the Main Slate lineup last week, the New York Film Festival has just announced the Spotlight lineup for its 64th edition. This section will showcase a selection of 12 features (3 of which are world premieres), one medium-length […]

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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, his newest crime thriller Paper Tiger took critics and […]

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It was a whirlwind of a film festival. I’m talking about the 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival that I was super lucky to attend July 30 through August 3. The fest itself ran July 31-August 2 but, I like to […]

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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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Robert Pattinson continues to be on a roll. With The Drama and The Odyssey already out, and Dune: Part Three coming in December, his newest role as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen will undoubtedly make waves. Documentary filmmaker […]

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(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s The Last Picture Shows movie review. The film opens in New York City on August 7th and in Los Angeles on August 21st in conjunction with a national theatrical roadshow. Seen it? Join the conversation with […]

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Returning for its 64th year this September, the New York Film Festival promises a nice variety of international cinema from all walks of life. After announcing its Opening Night (Paper Tiger), Centerpiece (Behemoth!), and Closing Night (14th) Films, the festival […]

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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground; 32 Sounds) explores the concept of time and aging in his search for The Oldest Person in the World. Having premiered at this year’s Sundance, this documentary centers on Green’s journey to search […]

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One of the biggest risk-taking directors of all time, John Boorman, signed on to direct what was the highly anticipated second chapter of “The Exorcist” series, Exorcist II: The Heretic. What people didn’t anticipate would be the critical disaster that […]

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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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