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Telluride Film Festival 2024 Lineup: Slate Includes Sean Baker, Errol Morris, Andrea Arnold, and More

M.J. O'Toole — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:39:13 +0000

The always epic (and, slightly esoteric in terms of attending goes…) Telluride Film Festival kicks off this Labor Day Weekend, running from August 30 through September 2. Sadly, HtN won’t be there this year but the lineup is, as always, incredibly […]

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A Conversation with Dustin Guy Defa (THE ADULTS)

Jack Schenker — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:41:24 +0000

Dustin Guy Defa has been a filmmaker for over a decade now and his entire career has been recently added to the Criterion Collection. The collection is streaming on the Criterion Channel right now and includes 9 films short and […]

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Casey Affleck’s Bad Behavior Be Damned (or Why You Should Not Boycott “Manchester by the Sea”)

Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:14:24 +0000

To call Manchester by the Sea writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s masterpiece is not an exaggeration. This is a near-flawless film. (And further proof that HBO needs to give Lonergan his own limited series a la Lisa Cholodenko’s Olive Kitteridge or Todd […]

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Nelson Kim and John Magary’s 2016 New York Film Festival Wrap-Up (Part 2 of 2)

Nelson Kim — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:57:12 +0000

This is the second of a two-part dialogue about this year’s New York Film Festival. To read the first part, click here. John Magary: When it comes to certain obviously talented, thematically consistent international-star directors — Hong Sang-soo, as you […]

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Nelson Kim and John Magary’s 2016 New York Film Festival Wrap-Up (Part 1 of 2)

Nelson Kim — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:31:21 +0000

(The 54th New York Film Festival, with its carefully curated selection of standout new works of international cinema, has come and gone. Longtime HTN contributors, film-school buddies, and fellow struggling NYC indie filmmakers Nelson Kim and John Magary conducted an […]

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Mike S. Ryan’s Sundance 2016 Wrap-Up

Mike S. Ryan — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:31:06 +0000

Sundance 2016, the post collapse world has begun with a new set of questions. Sundance 2008 was the last of the “Sundance go- go years.” Hamlet 2 was the top purchase that year for $12 million but there were also […]

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MARGARET

Michael Tully — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:02:38 +0000

If your idea of a rewarding time at the movies is a symphonic drama that aches with the blood, sweat and tears of real life while simultaneously upholding the finest traditions of opera, of theater, of poetry, of literature, look no further than Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret.

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