How does one deliver reliable, sincere news in an age where truth is distorted and the press is under attack by an ethically compromised administration? Steal This Story, Please!, the newest documentary from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning directing duo Carl Deal […]

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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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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 examining the life of photographer Nan Goldin and her fight against the Sackler Family in her documentary All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras investigates the political turmoil of the 20th Century through the reporting of […]

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After a highly buzzed festival run and plenty of acclaim from audiences and critics alike, Joachim Trier’s funny and emotional Sentimental Value will finally be released in U.S. theaters this November! Co-written by Trier and his writing partner Eskil Vogt, […]

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A romance unlike anything you’ve seen in recent years, breakout writer/director Harry Lighton’s Pillion will certainly make you gasp and swoon. This funny and surprisingly touching BDSM tale is adapted from the 2020 novel “Box Hill” by Adam Mars-Jones, starring […]

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With the Palestinian-Israeli conflict making headlines now more than ever, one film that will surely resonate is All That’s Left of You, Jordan’s official submission for international feature film at the 98th Academy Awards. Cherien Dabis (Amreeka, May in the […]

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While people may recognize him more for his acting, Harris Dickinson blew audiences and critics’ minds at this year’s Cannes Film Festival when he premiered his feature directorial debut, Urchin. Written and directed by Dickinson, the film stars Frank Dillane […]

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Following her 2019 Oscar-nominated documentary The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa continues to examine Brazil’s rocky politics in her newest film, Apocalypse in the Tropics. Having premiered on the festival circuit last year before America entered its second term […]

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Writer-director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) explores desire and mercy in his newest queer noir, Misericordia. Translating to Mercy, the film follows Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) who returns to his Saint-Martial home for his late boss’s funeral. He soon becomes […]

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