The blue carpet rolled out on Saturday and many of the year’s best independent films and TV series were recognized in Santa Barbara, California. Everything Everywhere All At Once swept the 38th Independent Spirit Awards as it took home seven […]

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(The 60th New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 30-October 16. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of Aftersun. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Do we often look back on our memories in a more subjective […]

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After a truly difficult few years, 2022 seemed like it had so much promise. While things overall are certainly “better,” there remains an existential feeling of impending doom. It’s weird too because ostensibly, for our purposes at HtN, movies in […]

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I probably don’t say enough how proud I am of the hard-working, diverse and brilliant writers we have here on staff and these lists both prove that. I could go through and praise each of them for very different reasons […]

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The nominations for the 2022 Gotham Awards have been revealed. The nominations in 12 categories recognize independent/arthouse films and breakout TV from this year. The ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan on Monday, November 28. Angelica […]

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The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) was founded in 1976 and since then has become one of the world’s premier showcases of quality films of all kinds, be they large event movies, microbudget flicks, and everything in between. Given […]

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The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its lineup for both the TIFF Docs and Contemporary World Cinema section, featuring films from over 50 countries. The festival will run from September 8 – 18. The Docs lineup includes Laura Poitras’ […]

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