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THERE'S STILL TOMORROW (Paola Cortellesi 2023)

The biggest movie of the festival. Made by and starring a prominent comedienne and singer, this black and white Neorealist style attack on...

MI FANNO MALE I CAPELLI (Roberta Torre 2023)

This fluffy riff features Alba Rohrwacher in a tour de force as a deranged wife who thinks she has turned into the iconic muse of Michelangelo...

ENEO (Pietro Castellitto 2023)

Sophomore film written, directed, and starring the son of famous actor-director Sergio Castellitto and included in competition at the Venice festival last year where...

A BRIGHTER TOMORROW/IL SOL DEL'AVVENIRE (Nanni Moretti 2023)

This film by the Italian auteur, a regular at Cannes and in the NIC series, features a central character who is a self-indulgent...

ADAGIO (Stefano Sollima 2023)

This lugubrious crime film set in an apocalyptic Rome features Italian superstars Pierfrancesco Favino and Toni Servillo as oddball gangsters. Favino is also featured...

Looking forward to the Monica Vitti homage. I remember how much my father loved her.
Also the one with Franz Rogowski. It won't be Italian, but he is always an interesting actor.

FESTIVAL THREAD...

PAOLA CORTELLESI: THERE'S STILL TOMORROW/C'È ANCORA DOMANI (2023)

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PAOLA CORTELLESI, ROMANA MAGGIORA VERGANO, VALERIO MASTANDREA, GIANMARCO FILIPPINI,...

ROBERTA TORRE: MI FANNO MALE I CAPELLI (2023)

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ALBA ROHRWACHER IN MI FANNI MALE I CAPELLI

Movie love madness in a tour de force by Alba Rohrwacher
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PIETRO CASTELLITTO: ENEA (2023)

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CESARE CASTELLITTO, BENEDETTA PORCAROLI, AND PIETRO CASTELLITTO IN ENEA

World-weary young Romans deal coke in a...

NANNI MORETTI: A BRIGHTER TOMORROW/IL SOL DEL'AVVENIRE (2023)

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NANNI MORETTI IN A BRIGHTER TOMORROW

Moretti's study of a self-indulgent movie...

STEFANO SOLLIMA: ADAGIO (2023)

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PANORAMA OF A ROME EDGED BY FIRE IN ADAGIO

Cops and gangsters circle each other around a boy in an apocalyptic Rome...

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema At Lincoln Center 2024
May 30- June 6, 2024 GENERAL FILM FORUM THREAD

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PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO IN EDOARDO DE ANGELIS'...

NOWHERE SPECIAL still only in theaters, expanding May 10, 2024.

DAVID LEITCH: THE FALL GUY (2024)

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Let's do that just one more time

The subtext of The Fall Guy is that movies may be collective work, but the...

OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA, MAY 30–JUNE 6, 2024

FILMS & DESCRIPTIONS
All films are in Italian with English subtitles unless otherwise noted,
and will screen at the Walter Reade Theater (165...

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER AND CINECITTÀ
ANNOUNCE THE 23rd EDITION OF
OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA, MAY 30–JUNE 6, 2024

FESTIVAL THREAD

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MARIJA KAVTARADZE: SLOW (2023)

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RETA GRINEVIČIŪTĖ, KESTUTIS CICENAS IN SLOW

Asexual affair

Slow is an assured and original new Lithuanian film...

AL WARREN: DOGLEG (2023)

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AL WARREN AND CHUY THE GOLDEN RETRIEVER IN DOGLEG

Woof woof - L.A/ improv comedy

This amiably wacky film is made up of...

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LYD - descriptiion of and pitch for the film from the filmmakers

SARAH EMA FRIEDLAND, RAMI YOUNIS: LYD (2023)

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REFUGEE FAMILY WHOSE ELDERS ARE FROM LYD IN LYD

More about the eradication of a people

This is...

WOODY ALLEN: COUP DE CHANCE (2024)

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VALÉRIE LEMERCIER AND MELVIL POUPAUD IN COUP DE CHANCE

Woody gets lucky in French

The Draconian moves to...

NICHOLAS MA: MABEL (2024)

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LEXI PERKEL AND "MABEL" IN MABEL

A science nerd girl learns to relate to humans

It's not certain what Mabel is about:...

STEPHEN ZAILLIAN'S NETFLIX 'RIPLEY'

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ANDREW SCOTT IN THE TV SERIES "RIPLEY"

Stephen Zaillian steals Patricia Highsmith's debut Ripley novel
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Negative views of Challengers

What do they say when they don't like it?

They dwell on its chopped-up flashback structure and say it's hard to follow: I have said that. They say the catchy...

Other reviews of Challengers

I liked a gay-focused one by Samantha Allen in a publication called them and entitled "C hallengers is Deliriously Campy Queer Fun." She describes everything better...