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This great, classic documentary is now going to have w wider release, which was delayed earlier due to COVID.

TOMER HEYMANN: JONATHAN AGASSI SAVED MY LIFE (2018)

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JONATHAN AGASSI 'PERFORMING' IN JONATHAN AGASSI SAVED MY LIFE

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Gay Israeli porn star...

French documentary opening theatrically in the US starting with June 22, 2022 at MoMA in New York. PREMIERES STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON MUBI, JUNE 29:


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More about THE TERRITORY.

THE TERRITORY is a National Geographic release, runs 83 minutes, filmed in the US, Brazil, & Denmark, and is currently unrated by the MPA. It had its world premiere at...

Thanks for these interesting comments. I've corrected the misspelling of "Clare" in my review of PASSING.

One of two crucial issue films I've reviewed in the past week, this one a beautifully made fact-based personal history dramatized, which is now showing on the big screen; the other Alex Pritz's...

One of the year's best documentaries, this film is a must-see: Amazon deforestation continues to hit record levels, as recent reports show (see GUARDIAN, May 7, 2022).

CÉLINE SCIAMMA: PETITE MAMAN (2021)

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THE SANZ TWINS IN PETITE MAMAN

Down the rabbit hole

Petite Maman has inspired rapturous English-language...

AUDREY DIWAN: HAPPENING/L'ÉVÉNEMENT (2021)

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ANAMARIA VARTOLOMEI IN HAPPENING

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A girl struggles with an unwanted pregnancy in France, four...

ALEX PRITZ: THE TERRITORY (2022) - DocLands Festival

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BATITÉ URU-EU-WAU-WAU IN THE TERRITORY

The war on nature and native populations in the Amazon and...

Then you must figure that out or not use an iPad!

Don't know why you couldn't get onto my KING RICHARD thread. It's here
http://www.filmleaf.net/showthread.php?5083-KING-RICHARD-(Reinaldo-Marcus-Greene-2021)&highlight=king+richard
It's not closed...

April 30, 2022.. The San Francisco Film Festival has announced its Golden Gate awards, including:
GGA Critics-New Directors Award winner:
Hit the Road, Panah Panahi (Iran)

Good choice!
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ROGER MITCHELL: THE DUKE (2020)

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JIM BROADBENT, HELEN MIRRIN IN THE DUKE

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True story of an amiable villain with Jim Broadbent and Helen...

APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL: MEMORIA (2021)

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TILDA SWINTON IN MEMORIA

Traveling in Colombia, a sound in the head leads to explorations of other worlds
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JAIME SISLEY: STAY AWAKE (2022)

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FIN ARGUS AND WYATT OLEFF IN STAY AWAKE

Growing up with a mother who constantly OD's on prescription opioids
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Jessic Kiang of Variety has such a nice opening it's tempting to quote it.

It's true! I very quickly had to watch the film again, to get back with them.

Lead review in the NY Times today - and a Critic's Pick - by A.O. Scott is subtle and discerning. When you love a movie, it's always nice to see somebody very well placed to hear their opinion heard...

PANAH PANAHI: HIT THE ROAD (2021)

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RAYAN SARLAK IN HIT THE ROAD

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Jafar's son's debut is a miraculous road trip of indefinably...

MAXWELL MCCABE-LOKOS: STANLEYVILLE (2021)

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SUZANNE WUEST, FOREGROUND, IN STANLEYVILLE

A strange contest that is either crucial - or insignificant -...

Here are links to all Filmleaf's 2022 ND/NF Festival Coverage:

LINKS TO THE REVIEWS
The African Desperate dir. Martine Syms CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Album for the Youth dir. Malena Solarz
The...

THE AFRICAN DESPERATE (Martine Syms 2022)

World premiere and Closing Night Film of 2022 New Directors/New Films is a very hip "hazy, alluring send-up of the art world" and of the MFA world and...

Other films in the series I watched:

HOT IN DAY, COLD AT NIGHT (Park Songyeol 2021)

This zero-budget Korean film adopts a kind of zen minimalism that teeters between dry irony and amateurish...

ONODA: 10000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE (Arthur Harari 2021)

What at first seems odd that it was made by a French team later seems inevitable because the tale of a soldier who goes on fighting his own...

PILGRIMS (Laurynas Bareiša 2021)

A chilly LIthuanian film about the girlfriend and brother of the victim, the "pilgrims" of the story, revisiting the sites leading up to the brutal kidnapping...