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PHILIPPE LACOTE: THE NIGHT OF THE KINGS/LA NUIT DES ROIS (2020) Night of the Kings Philippe Lacôte, 2020, France/Ivory Coast/Canada/Senegal,...

GARRETT BRADLEY: TIME (2020) Time Garrett Bradley, 2020, U.S., 81m documentary The tireless 21-year campaign of Louisiana woman Fox Rich to...

SONG FANG: THE CALMING 平静 (2020) I reviewed Son Fang's first film, Memories Look at Me, as part of the 2012 NYFF. The Calming Song...

VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY: GUNDA (2020 Gunda Victor Kossakovsky, 2020, Norway, 93m documentary Gunda is a sow who lives on a farm in Norway. When...

CRISTI PUIU: MALMKROG (2020) MARINA PALLI AND DIANA SAKALAUSKAITÉ in MALMKROG Idle rich with a lot to talk about, c. 1900 I reviewed...

LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen 2020) New York Film Festival's unique hybrid pandemic Virtual/drive-in 2020 version's Opening Night Film is a 68 minute...

STEVE MCQUEEN: LOVER'S ROCK (2020) A celebration staged - then watched Lovers Rock, the opening night film of the 58th New York Film...

ORÇUN BEHRAM: THE ANTENNA (2019) IHSAN ÖNAL IN THE ANTENNA Authoritarian ooze in a nightmare building Orçun Behram has made a film set in...

TOM DOLBY: THE ARTIST'S WIFE (2019) BRUCE DERN AND LENA OLIN IN THE ARTIST'S WIFE Some things you can't get away from Tom Dolby, the son...

HEAVY CRAVING 大餓 (Hsieh Pei-ju 2019) A generally good-natured, and sometimes surreal, first feature from Taiwan about acceptance of being an...

HSIEH PEI-JU: HEAVY CRAVING 餓 (2019 TSAI JA-YIN IN HEAVY CRAVING Being oneself Hsieh Pei-ju, who gained her MFA at Columbia University and...

HSIEH PEI-JU: HEAVY CRAVING (2019 Ying-Juan (Tsai Jia-yin) is spunky, smart... and 230 pounds. She cooks at a preschool where the kids call her...

LILLIAN LASALLE: MY NAME IS PEDRO (2017) When he was principal of Middle School 391 in the South Bronx and raised the academic performance and...

FATIHA YOUSSOUF ABDILLAH (FAR RIGHT) IN MIGNONNES CUTIES /MIGNONNES (Maimouna Doucouré 2020) - again There's been a controversy over CUTIES,...

MY PRINCE EDWARD 金都 (Norris Wong 2019) A sham marriage and a coming real marriage that might be sham; a boorish and childish and momma's boy Hong...

NORRIS WONG: MY PRINCE EDWARD 金都 (2019) STEPHY TANG AND CHU PAK-HONG IN MY PRINCE EDWARD Pre-marital squabbles over a bridal shop make for a...

New York Film Festival 2020 I was forgetting the most obvious coming oneline event - the New York Film Festival. You can log in and buy "tickets"...

Metrograph has an online membership program. You join up and pay $5 a month, and for that you can watch any of their online offerings during the...

LINKS TO THE REVIEWS Beasts Clawing at Straws 지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들 (Kim Yong-hoon 2020) A Beloved Wife 喜劇 愛妻物語 (Shin Adachi 2019) Beneath the Shadow...

SOUL / ROH (Emir Ezwan 2019) A very low budget and very quiet Malaysian horror film (with wonderful music and cinematography but a rather slow...

WILD SPARROW 野雀之詩 (Shih Li 2019) A pretty, wayward young woman becomes responsible for her young son when he comes to Taipei City from the remote...

EMIR EZWAN: SOUL / ROH (2019) SCENE FROM ROH Horror at jungle's edge Emir Ezwan's Malaysian art house horror film explores folkloric...

SHIH LI : WILD SPARROW 野雀之詩 (2019) CHEN SHU-FANG, LI YI-CHIEH, KAO YI-HSIA IN WILD SPARROW Beautiful losers In his little feature debut...

IWeirDo 怪胎 ( Liao Ming-yi 2020) A lovely and charming rom-com from Taiwan about 2 obsessive OCDers shot with iPhones. See it!

LIAO MING-YI: IWeirDo 怪胎 (2020) NIKKI HSIEH AND AUSTIN LIN IN IWEIRDO How becoming normal can be alienating for the odd Liao Ming-yi,...