In a year filled with ambitious cinema, RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys stands as a singular achievement in American filmmaking. Through an audacious technical approach that employs point-of-view cinematography throughout, Ross and his […]

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Artist-turned-filmmaker Titus Kaphar examines how familial trauma impacts the artist’s soul in his emotional feature debut, Exhibiting Forgiveness. The semi-autobiographical drama, which premiered at this year’s Sundance, stars André Holland as a painter who’s forced to face his long-buried past […]

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Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many prolific filmmakers today, including Steven Spielberg, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo del Toro, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Christopher Nolan – just to name a […]

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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Every Little Thing. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) First-time filmmaker but established artist Titus Kaphar showed Exhibiting Forgiveness at Sundance this year. Kaphar also […]

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Celebrating its 40th year, the Sundance Film Festival attempts to regain its footing and retake its legacy in 2024 after a couple of Covid years and a sad sales market – especially for documentaries. However if you look back on […]

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Awards season has now officially kicked off! The Gotham Awards have announced the nominations for their 2023 ceremony. The nominees were listed by Jeffrey Sharp, the executive director of the Gotham Film and Media Institute, as well as deputy director […]

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