After co-writing last year’s VistaVision epic The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet go further back in time for their latest collaboration, which musically retells the origins of a colonial religious movement. The Testament of Ann Lee, with Fastvold at […]

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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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One film that took Cannes by surprise this year was Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’ emotional feature debut, Aftersun. Her “emotionally autobiographical” film stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio as a father and daughter Calum and Sophie who take a […]

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Clark's artistic interests are both the personal and the cosmic, a rare fusion in American film.

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(Ma was screened as a work-in-progress as part of MoMA PS1’s Sunday Sessions during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.) I first discovered Celia Rowlson-Hall’s work at the Borscht Film Festival in 2012. Borscht is less a film festival than a […]

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If I had to sum up the Borscht Film Festival in one word it would be ‘youth.’ The Borscht Corp collective dates back to high school friendships formed at Miami’s New World School of the Arts, and from what I […]

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