(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s Nadja movie review. Michael Almereyda’s 1994 vampire film has been given the 4k restoration treatment and is in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Our season of the vampires. Predisposed to […]

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(Check out Johnathan Marlow’s movie review of Four Nights of a Dreamer. A new 4K restoration plays September 5-18 at Film Forum in New York before hitting more theaters this fall. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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The New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, has announced the Revivals lineup for its 62nd edition. The Revivals section showcases significant works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance […]

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A hidden gem of Iranian cinema has been unearthed and restored in 4K. Bahram Beyzaie’s mythical 1974 sophomore film The Stranger and the Fog was banned in Iran for decades following the Revolution there, but it’s finally being brought back […]

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Iconic French sci-fi animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) is having another one of his hidden gems restored by Janus Films later this month. His 1982 tale The Time Masters incorporates Mœbius’ trippy, mindblowing design in this story of a young […]

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If you thought Heart of Darkness gave you a hard enough look into the challenges of making a masterpiece of cinema in the jungle, try experiencing the frenzied making of Werner Herzog’s 1982 epic Fitzcarraldo. Iconic documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s […]

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Gregg Araki’s 1997 cult classic Nowhere is the latest Gen X hit to get the 4K restoration treatment. It is an ensemble drama that takes an apocalyptic dive into the lives of Los Angeles-based high schoolers who find themselves in […]

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“Same as it ever was.” Almost 40 years ago, before putting his stamp on cinema with The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme directed what is considered to this day… the greatest concert film of all time. Stop Making Sense […]

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Thirty years after winning the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Chen Kaige’s decades-spanning love story Farewell My Concubine is being brought back to theaters with a new 4K restoration in the full director’s cut never before seen […]

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Before Lost In Translation and Enter The Void, the lives of Americans in Tokyo were examined in Fran Rubel Kuzui’s feature debut Tokyo Pop. Co-written by Kuzui and Lynn Grossman, it premiered at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival to vast […]

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