South Korean filmmaker Jason Yu steps into the spotlight with his feature directorial debut Sleep, a taut psychological thriller that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. Drawing from his experiences in his own marriage, cinema history, and his work as an […]

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South Korea never runs out of pure, nail-biting, suspenseful cinema. First-time director Jason Yu, who’s worked with Korean cinematic giants Boon Joon-ho and Lee Chang-dong, brings the thrills to a newlywed couple’s existence in his feature debut, Sleep. It stars […]

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Ten years after collaborating on the expressionist western Juaja, star Viggo Mortensen and director Lisandro Alonso reteam for an even more ambitious tale that explores the depths of time, civilization, and cinema. Eureka is not an easy film to summarize. […]

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After an in-competition premiere at Cannes last year, the latest film from daring auteur Catherine Breillat is finally making its way to U.S. theaters. Last Summer caused quite a stir on the Croisette last year, something the 75-year-old director’s films […]

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One year after its Cannes premiere, the Oscar-nominee for Best Animated Feature Robot Dreams is finally making its way to U.S. theaters. The film had an awards-qualifying run way back in December (solidifying it as a 2023 film), and will […]

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If you’re in the mood for a lush love story this summer, you may be in luck with writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Banel & Adama. Senegal’s official entry to the 2024 Oscars centers on a young couple’s (Khady Mane and Mamadou […]

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Millennial complexes and BDSM go hand-in-hand in writer-director/actor Joanna Arnow’s comedy The Feeling That The Time for Doing Something Has Passed. Arnow stars as Ann, a 30-something New Yorker navigating her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome […]

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“I’m gonna get you kids!” The classic story of adventurous children getting up to no good gets a 16mm revamp in writer-director Weston Razooli’s Riddle of Fire. Razooli’s directorial debut premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and closed TIFF’s […]

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Josh O’Connor is on a surreal quest in Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. The otherworldly drama had its world premiere at last year’s Cannes, as well as screened at TIFF and NYFF. In her fourth feature after 2018’s Happy As Lazzaro, […]

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In the latest from visionary director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau), cinema and nostalgia are front and center. In Pictures of Ghosts, he journeys to his Brazilian hometown of Recife. There, reflects on his personal cinematic life and explores Brazil’s movie […]

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