This may very well be the year of Jafar Panahi. Now able to move freely outside of his home country of Iran, the Palme d’Or winner is set to embark on a U.S. promotional tour to screen his awards contender, […]

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After over a decade of being persecuted and imprisoned by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi made his triumphant in-person return to the Cannes Film Festival this year, where he presented what may be his most courageous film yet. It Was […]

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(Photo credit Mike Coppola/Getty Images) After truly independent filmmaker Sean Baker won the freeking Palme d’Or at Cannes this year, he was fast-tracked to Oscar nominations galore! Amazing! Tonight, Baker won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Editing and Directing […]

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(The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5-15 and HtN has you covered once again. Check out Chris Reed’s Anora movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In his last three features—Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket—director […]

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No matter the production budget and the limited resources at his disposal, Sean Baker never fails to deliver an unforgettable cinematic experience. The director follows up 2019’s Red Rocket with a new exploration of the lives of sex workers, which […]

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The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded today as the Greta Gerwig-fronted jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s new sex worker comedy, Anora. It is also distributor NEON’s fifth consecutive Palme win following Anatomy of a Fall, Triangle of […]

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As the 77th Cannes Film Festival kicks off today, Francis Ford Coppola has just increased our anticipation with an epic new teaser for his passion piece Megalopolis. His first film in over a decade since 2011’s Twixt, Coppola (a two-time […]

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(The Middleburg Film Festival runs October 19-22, 2023 in Middleburg, Virginia. HtN Lead Critic Chris Reed will be providing his usual excellent coverage like this movie review of Anatomy of a Fall. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Winner […]

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For the fourth time in a row this year, NEON hit the jackpot once again when the murder mystery they acquired, Anatomy of a Fall, won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Justine Triet (Sibyl) directed […]

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Thirty years after winning the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Chen Kaige’s decades-spanning love story Farewell My Concubine is being brought back to theaters with a new 4K restoration in the full director’s cut never before seen […]

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