French writer/director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) returns to the big screen with his latest feature, Suspended Time, a deeply personal meditation on life, love, art, and memory. The narrative is set during the initial COVID-19 lockdown, with Assayas’ […]

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The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival returns for its 12th 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 around […]

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With the passing of Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard within the last half-decade and last year, respectively, renewed attention has justifiably returned to the beginnings of the so-called French “Nouvelle Vague” (or “New Wave” in English; “Bossa nova” in Portuguese; […]

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Yui Kiyohara is a Japanese filmmaker who within 2 films already has a distinctive slow cinema style. Her first two feature films, Our House from 2017 and Remembering Every Night are playing at Film at Lincoln Center right now! Both […]

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(Check out Matt Delman’s movie review of Afire, Christian Petzold’s latest film which hits theaters in New York on July 14 before a rollout nationwide. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Prolific director Christian Petzold’s unclassifiable […]

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Films du Losange has restored all four films in Éric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons. Film Forum will present the restored versions of the French New Wave auteur’s Seasons cycle in order of their original release on consecutive Fridays […]

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Don’t Leave Home suggests that when religion falls into manipulative hands with ulterior motives (namely power and wealth) it can become menacingly evil.

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(Right Now, Wrong Then receives its U.S. premiere this Friday, October 9, as part of the New York Film Festival. Additional screenings will follow this Saturday and Sunday. Go here for more information.) The South Korean writer/director Hong Sang-soo is […]

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