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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Having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a documentary you should not sleep on this year. The film consists entirely of footage shot in 1972 at a party that took […]

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Sara Dosa is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker whose work centers on human relationships with the natural world. Her films, including Fire of Love (2022), The Seer & The Unseen (2019), and The Last Season (2015), have won numerous awards, including […]

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Following his eerie 16mm-shot features Bait (2019) and Enys Men (2022), Cornish writer-director Mark Jenkin is back with a haunting new seaside pic that has two fishermen caught in a time warp. Hot off a fall festival run that included […]

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Once Upon a Time in Harlem is the best film I saw at Sundance this year. It is also, in a sense, a miracle. In 1972, the legendary documentary filmmaker William Greaves—director of the avant-garde masterpiece Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), […]

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Ira Sachs returns with Peter Hujar’s Day, a mesmerizing 76-minute chamber piece that transforms a rediscovered 1974 transcript into an intimate portrait of friendship, artistry, and 1970s New York bohemia. The film reunites Sachs with Ben Whishaw, star of his […]

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Three years ago, at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, I had the opportunity to speak with filmmaker Owen Kline to discuss his remarkable feature directorial debut, Funny Pages. At the time, Kline was most notable for his memorable […]

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