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The Wonder : Q&A with Actress Florence Pugh

Synopsis : The Irish Midlands, 1862 — a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village…

Exclusive Video Interview: ‘Bad Axe’ Director David Siev Documents His Family’s Struggles during 2020

Check out more video interviews on our YouTube channel. You can’t get much more personal than David Siev’s documentary, Bad Axe, named after the small town in Michigan where his family lived and ran the popular community restaurant, Rachel’s. Things took a drastic turn in 2020 when COVID-19 hit the country, and then-President Donald Trump…

“Aurora’s Sunrise” : Exclusive Video Interview with Director Inna Sahakyan for Armenia’s Selection for the Oscar

Check out more video interviews on our YouTube channel. This year, Armenia submitted Inna Sahakyan’s Aurora’s Sunrise, as its selection for the International Feature Academy Award, making it the second year in a row with a country submitting an animated doc to the category following last year’s Oscar-nominated Flee from Denmark. Aurora Mardiganian lost her…

The 11th New York Japan CineFest – 21 short films in 7 days

The 11th New York Japan CineFest  The 11th Anniversary – 21 short films in 7 days Festival dates: November 14 – November 20, 2022 A film festival that introduces Japanese-themed short films, New York Japan CineFest, is celebrating the 11th year and going hybrid for the first time, from November 14th to November 20th.  As…

Exclusive Video Interview: Director Jason Loftus on Canada’s Oscar Submission, Animated Documentary ‘Eternal Spring’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Eternal Spring takes a deeply creative approach to framing and sharing the history it covers, involving renowned comic book illustrator Daxiong in channeling painful memories of government suppression in China. Daxiong explores his own connections to the banned Falun Gong faith as vivid animation…

Museum of the Moving Image Presents ‘SEE IT BIG: EXTENDED CUTS!,’ Sixteen Films in Alternate Directorial Visions

MoMI PRESENTS ‘SEE IT BIG: EXTENDED CUTS!,’ SIXTEEN FILMS IN ALTERNATE DIRECTORIAL VISIONS The Museum’s signature screening series, co-presented with film journal Reverse Shot, offers a rare chance to see director’s cuts or otherwise re-edited versions of films in a big-screen theatrical setting Highlights include Frank Oz’s Little Shop of Horrors, Elaine May’s Ishtar, Terrence…

New York Film Festival Review – ‘The Inspection’ is a Powerful and Passionate Story of Representation

The United States military has historically been a hostile environment for LGBT individuals. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy forced those who wished to serve to conceal their identities or face expulsion, and its repeal a decade ago has hopefully improved the situation, though there is surely much work still to be done. But despite…

Exclusive Video Interview: David Arquette on ‘The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry’ and Highlights of His Career

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. The new film The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, adapted by and based on Gabrielle Zevin’s novel of the same name, tells the story of a disgruntled and recently widowed bookstore owner on a small island struggling to find purpose in his life. Among…

New York Film Festival Exclusive Video Interview: Director Carla Simón on the Golden Bear Winning Film, ‘Alcarràs’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Director Carla Simón returns with her second feature film, Alcarràs, following her successful debut, 2017’s Summer 1993. Inspired by her own personal connection to peach cultivators in the village of Alcarràs, Simón created a fictionalized story about what changes over the course of generations…

White Noise : Press Conference with Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, May Nivola, Sam Nivola, Danny Elfman, James Murphy

Synopsis : At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror Original Language: English Director:Noah Baumbach…