@Courtesy of Netflix A House of Dynamite is the best and most important movie about nuclear threat since Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick. Working on the articulate screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Kathryn Bigelow has directed a high-tension drama that explores the danger and dilemmas of…
©Courtesy of MUBI She has been called the quietest of the great American directors. Kelly Reichardt doesn’t rush. She clears away the unnecessary and takes her time capturing the American soul. Now she returns with something as unusual and unlikely as an observational heist movie. Her style works wonders. Set in a sleepy Massachusetts suburb…
Courtesy of The California Film Institute The California Film Institute (CAFILM) has named Rose Kuo as Artistic Director, a newly created leadership position established earlier this year to guide the organization’s artistic vision and ensure a seamless program leadership transition in the years ahead. Kuo is an internationally recognized leader in cinematic arts with a…
Now in its 63rd year, Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival (aka NYFF) can boast proudly about being one of the longest-running film festivals within the United States and even North America. When it began in 1963, it was looking to Europe, where film festivals like Cannes, Berlin (Berlinale), and Venice (Bienalle) were…
Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere. Courtesy of 20th Century Studios. Film at Lincoln Center announces the premiere of Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere“ as the Spotlight Gala selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival. At the premiere presentation on Sunday, September 28, Cooper and cast members Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, and Odessa Young will…
Film at Lincoln Center announces the North American premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt as Opening Night of the 63rd New York Film Festival, presented in partnership with Rolex, at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 26, with Guadagnino and members of the cast in attendance. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 63rd New York…
@Courtesy of Cinetic Media Six years after What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? the Italian director Roberto Minervini is back behind the camera with a feature film set during the American Civil War. In 1862, a battalion of volunteers from the Union Army was sent to the uncharted lands of the West…
Hard Truth : Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented…
In the opening scene of Mike Leigh’s Oscar nominated and Golden Palm winner Secrets & Lies (1996), Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s character sings at her adopted mother’s funeral on a lush cemetery. She then played the mild-mannered and soft-spoken optometrist with a contagious smile who searches for her biological mother (Brenda Blethyn). When she now revisits Mike…
@Courtesy of Netflix The ability of Jacques Audiard consists of working inside the genre and at the same time trying to give his interpretation of it. Depending on the film, he decides to follow its rules or surprise the audience with a slightly different tone. His last Emilia Pérez belongs to the latter case: awarded…
©Courtesy of NEON In the last ten years, Sean Baker has directed four movies that speak about life like nothing else in contemporary American cinema. Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket, and last but not least Anora are linked by a vitality that can drag the viewer into a chaotic world populated by flawed, questionable,…
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