After working together back in 2023 on the heavy, yet tender drama Memory, writer-director Michel Franco and star Jessica Chastain are back with an erotic drama that spans both sides of the US-Mexico border. Dreams, Franco’s ninth feature, stars Chastain […]

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With the whole world paying close attention to the atrocities in Gaza, one documentary that observes a family up close and personal in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks is the captivating Holding Liat. Brandon Kramer (The First […]

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With numerous animated films gracing our fall season, one to absolutely look forward to is writer-directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s Lesbian Space Princess. Winner of the Teddy Award at this year’s Berlinale, the Australian production features the voice […]

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Following their collaboration on the explosive romantic drama Passages, director Ira Sachs and star Ben Whishaw reunite for an intimate, verité-like portrait of a famed 20th-century photographer. Peter Hujar’s Day stars Whishaw and Rebecca Hall as NYC-based photographer Peter Hujar […]

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Mom and therapist Linda is having one hell of a bad day in writer-director Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Produced by fellow masters of chaos Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, the film stars Rose Byrne as […]

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Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke, one of cinema’s iconic and enduring pairings, reunite with a musical biopic that made waves at the Berlinale this year. Blue Moon stars Hawke as lyricist Lorenz Hart, one-half of the legendary duo Rodgers and […]

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After dissecting the concepts of love, sexuality, and gender in his previous features, Love and Sex, Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud concludes his Oslo Trilogy with his third entry, Dreams. The film premiered at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, […]

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The 75th Berlin International Film Festival concluded over the weekend after 9 days of new innovative and daring cinema. The Todd Haynes-headed jury awarded this year’s Golden Bear for Best Film to Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love). […]

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