©Courtesy of Janus Films Biopics thrive on their ability to see the ordinary in people as magical. The uniquely experimental new period docudrama, Peter Hujar’s Day, does just that by presenting the elegant titular character through melancholic subtext. Ira Sachs both wrote and directed the movie about the late cultural photographer. The filmmaker turned a…
©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at the New…
Receiving a resurgence in attention for their long-lost work can create a wistful melancholy for many creatives. That’s certainly true for poets in a culture like downtown New York City that values independent art. Willem Dafoe‘s protagonist, former poet Ed Saxberger, must do just that amongst a newfound circle of literary aspirants. The up-and-coming writers…
©Courtesy of Neon The prologue sets the emotional architecture of “Sentimental Value”, the Grand Prize winner at Cannes. We’re introduced to two sisters’ childhood home — a magnificent red wooden house in Oslo, Norway — that serves as the emotional center of the story. The film then cuts to a young stage actress, moments before her…
When people talk about New York filmmakers, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee are frequently the first two names that come to mind, while Jim Jarmusch is often forgotten, maybe because he hasn’t made much of an effort to set or film any of his movies in his own city. One of the segments in Night…
©Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Engaging in meandering debates about clashing ethics and contentious power dynamics can reveals people’s drastically different views on social justice. The upcoming crime drama, After the Hunt, explores the dispute of morality, particularly related to sexual assault, with fearless abandon. First-time screenwriter Nora Garrett penned the new psychological thriller. She…
©Courtesy of Neon Rave culture has always thrived outside the mainstream, an underground heartbeat pulsing against the silence of daily life. For many, the rave isn’t just music—it’s rebellion, refuge, and pilgrimage. The ravers of “Sirāt“, Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Jury Prize winner and Spain’s Oscar contender, now creating buzz at the New York Film Festival,…
@Courtesy fo Focus Features Daniel Day-Lewis is back from retirement, and this is fantastic news for anyone who loves movies. But which Daniel Day-Lewis is back? It is indeed a legitimate question, since in my opinion there have been at least two different kinds of performer that he was able to develop in his extraordinary…
@Courtesy of 20 Century Studios The core of the story is simple and universal: a man in his early thirties is deeply haunted by the ghosts of his past, especially an abusive father figure who made his childhood a mix of joy and deep sorrow. After all those years he still doesn’t know how to…
©Courtesy of GKIDS An isolated scream of personal despair can ultimately become the voice of a generation that’s contending with the nature of their existence. The anguish felt in the reverberating cry of the young heroine in the fantasy anime movie, Angel’s Egg, echoes the crisis of faith many adolescents face as they come of…
@Courtesy of NYFF Winner of the Jury Special Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival, the visionary tale directed by Bi Gan lands at the New York Film Festival as one of the most innovative feature-films seen in the 2025 edition. Conceived as a science fiction movie, Resurrection is set in a future where mankind…
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