Nathan Silver’s Carol & Joy is a 38-minute documentary portrait of Academy Award-nominated actress Carol Kane and her 98-year-old mother Joy, a music teacher who still gives lessons and plays piano in their Upper West Side apartment. Shot on 16mm by cinematographers […]

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Following its week-long theatrical engagement last fall, Oliver Laxe’s jaw-dropping thriller Sirāt is returning to the stateside market for a wider official release. Having won the Jury Prize at Cannes and shocking audiences and critics alike on the fall festival circuit, […]

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(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) ran September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Resurrection movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Can our dreams influence cinema? Or […]

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Late last week, the 2025 (technically the 2026) Awards Season started heating up in earnest but it’s typically the nominees for Golden Globes that signify the full season kick-off. While snubs and surprises are always part of the fun, the […]

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After working together on the endearing comedy Between the Temples, director Nathan Silver captures the bond between the star of that film, the legendary Carol Kane, and her mother, music teacher Joy Kane, in a short documentary that is sure […]

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After an extensive festival tour that went from Cannes, TIFF, and to NYFF, Lav Diaz’s hypnotic new epic, Magellan, is finally set for a stateside release. It stars Gael Garcia Bernal as the eponymous Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan as he […]

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Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude has built a reputation for making films confronting history, technology, and national mythology. His latest film, Dracula, is perhaps his most audacious provocation yet: a 170-minute, 14-segment epic that weaponizes artificial intelligence, iPhone footage, and absurdity […]

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Ira Sachs returns with Peter Hujar’s Day, a mesmerizing 76-minute chamber piece that transforms a rediscovered 1974 transcript into an intimate portrait of friendship, artistry, and 1970s New York bohemia. The film reunites Sachs with Ben Whishaw, star of his […]

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You haven’t seen anything quite like Bi Gan’s Resurrection. His first feature film since 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the writer-director ventures into bolder, more ambitious territory here in this anthology sci-fi film, which divides the narrative into six […]

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After taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm, where it won Best Director, Best Actor, and the FIPRESCI Prize, writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent is one of the most anticipated films of this awards season. It stars Wagner […]

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