(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Idda movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with […]

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(The 2026 Venice Film Festival ran September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s The Spiral movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on […]

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After making stops at last year’s Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF, Francesco Sossai’s road trip comedy The Last One for the Road is ready to charm U.S. audiences in time for spring. It stars The Hand of God breakout Filippo Scotti […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Reflection in a Dead Diamond movie review, it’s in theaters now and hits Netflix November 21! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The 1960s were the golden age of spy movies, thanks to an […]

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Few actor-director partnerships in contemporary cinema have proven as fruitful, or as essential as the collaboration between Toni Servillo and Paolo Sorrentino. Since their first meeting on the set of One Man Up  in 2001, the Naples-born actor and filmmaker have […]

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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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Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) is back and doing what he does best: making people and places look enchantingly beautiful. Parthenope, titled after the myth of Greek sirens who lured men to their deaths at sea, stars Celeste […]

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Before breaking the mold of cinema with his sensations L’avventura and Blow-Out, Michelangelo Antonioni examined a rootless life in his 1957 neorealist drama, Il Grido. Restored by The Film Foundation, Cineteca di Bologna, and Compass Film, it follows mechanic Aldo […]

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As we are getting closer to the 96th Academy Awards, one of the nominees for Best International Feature will finally head to U.S. theaters on February 23, just around the corner. Io Capitano is the eleventh feature from writer-director Matteo […]

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Josh O’Connor is on a surreal quest in Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. The otherworldly drama had its world premiere at last year’s Cannes, as well as screened at TIFF and NYFF. In her fourth feature after 2018’s Happy As Lazzaro, […]

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