The Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival returns for its 13th edition. Showcasing some of this year’s exciting new voices in American and international cinema, this year’s edition will introduce New York audiences to eclectic, innovative works from […]

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Three years ago, at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, I had the opportunity to speak with filmmaker Owen Kline to discuss his remarkable feature directorial debut, Funny Pages. At the time, Kline was most notable for his memorable […]

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One of the most buzzed-about and stunning movies of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was writer-director Alex Russell’s Lurker. Russell, who was a writer on the Emmy-winning shows The Bear and Beef, makes his feature directorial debut with this look […]

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Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many of today’s notable auteurs, including Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Michael Haneke, Guillermo del Toro, RaMell Ross, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and […]

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The SXSW Film & TV Festival, which runs from March 8-16, has announced the rest of its 2024 lineup in multiple categories. Adding 50 new films to this year’s slate brings the total number of features up to 115. Among […]

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