Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many of today’s notable auteurs, including Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Michael Haneke, Guillermo del Toro, RaMell Ross, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and […]

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In a year filled with ambitious cinema, RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys stands as a singular achievement in American filmmaking. Through an audacious technical approach that employs point-of-view cinematography throughout, Ross and his […]

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Over the last couple weeks whenever I mentioned I was attending NYFF to a normie, they told me, “oh yeah, I saw the long lines.” What those normies didn’t realize is that the lines they saw were actually to enter […]

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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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After announcing its Opening Night, Centerpiece, and Closing Night selections, the New York Film Festival has announced the full Main Slate lineup for its 62nd edition. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, this year’s Main Slate sections will screen the […]

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Mike S. Ryan’s very biased 25 fave low budget American Indies of the ‘10 Decade. 1. Moonlight-Barry Jenkins 2. Meek’s Cutoff/Certain Woman– Kelly Reichardt 3. The Rider-Chloe Zhao 4. The Fits– Anna Rose Holmer 5. It Felt Like Love– Eliza […]

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Elliptical, beautiful and narratively unconventional, Hale County This Morning, This Evening rewards the viewer with images and passages of incomparable power. Set in Alabama among middle- and lower-income African American communities...

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