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CATHERINE DENEUVE, DENIS PODALYDÈS IN THE PRESIDENT'S WIFE (BERNADETTE)

THE PRESIDENT'S WIFE (Léa Domenach 2023)

Hard to figure where this comedy...

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CALLIE HERNANDEZ IN INVENTIION

CALLIE HERNANDEZ, COURTNEY STEPHENS: INVENTION (2024)

The body electric

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Upon an oddball dad's death he...

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DÉSIRÉ MIA IN ABSOLUTE DOMINION

LEXI ALEXANDER: ABSOLUTE DOMINION (2025)

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Abs dom

This tale of a contest to end a future state of...

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DANIEL MINAHAN: ON SWIFT HORSES (2024)

A feast that leeaves one a little hungry

This glamorous, bold, and almost-wonderful novel adaptation...

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Sound of Falling

There is special buzz about the new German-language film SOUND OF FALLING (German: In die Sonne schauen, lit. 'Staring at the...

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CANNES 2025 - first overview.
SOURCE.
The 78th edition runs May 13-24, 2025.
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NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 IS 3/4 finished. Check out the program or read our reviews.

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GEORGES POUJOULY AND BRIGITTE FOSSEY IN FORBIDDEN GAMES

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Here is a recent list I made of films that excited me growng up. I'll add lists for...

INVENTION (Courtney Stephens 2024)English

This American indie film blends doc and invention to sketch a woman whose oddball father's death leaves her saddled with an electronic healling device he...

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CALLIE HERNANDEZ IN INVENTIION

CALLIE HERNANDEZ, COURTNEY STEPHENS: INVENTION (2024)

The body electric

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Upon an oddball dad's death he...

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A CLIP FROM EARLY IN THE MARRIAGE FROM HELEN AND THE BEAR

ALIX BLAIR: HELEN AND THE BEAR (2024)

Portrait of a marriage, and an unusual woman

This...

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SUEDA POLAT IN THE ENCAMPMENTS

KEI PRITSKER, MICHAEL T. WORKMAN: THE ENCAMPMENTS (2025)

Timely film about campus freedom and opposition to...

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MIRANDA YOUSEF: ART FOR EVERYBODY (2023)

The most profitable art in the world is terrible art

Very bad art is the most pervasive (though...

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PETER CATTANEO: THE PENGUIN LESSONS (2024)

Coogan and the bird

It's hard to tell a heartwarming tale about a cute animal in the setting of a...

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ALEX BRAVERMAN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH (2023).

Sources of the complex, off-putting, briliant and cruel comedy of Andy Kaufman, who died at 35 but remains...

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BERLIN & BEYOND begins today in San Francisco

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Still not too late to get tickets. GO HERE.

MARCG 27-31, 2025.

WINNER! ACADEMY AWARD® BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
NEWS UPDATE: On Monday, March 24, NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal was attacked and beaten outside his home in the West Bank by Israeli...

Maybe my favorites of what I got to see of the series are LESSON LEARNED, the Hungarian school docu-drama, and NO SLEEP TILL, Alexandra Simpson's poetic meditation/diary/weather study set in a...

THE NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS series at Lincoln Center April 2-13, 2025:

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THE TRAITOR/LANDESVERRÄTER(Michael Krummenacher 2024)

Newcomer Dmitri Krebs stars in the story of the first Swiss executed for treason in WWI, at only 23.

Showtime: Roxie, SF – March 29 at 1:45...

THE MARIANA TRENCH/MARIANENGRABEN (Eileen Byrne 2024)

Based on a German instant covid bestseller, this is a road movier and a buddy picture of an ill and aging man in a van joined by a young...

JOHN CRANKO (Joachim A. Lang 2024)

Sam Riley (who became famous playing Ian Curtis of Joy Division) takes control in the early sixties as John Cranko, the choreographer born in South Africa...

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FéLIX KYSYL, JACQUES DEVELAY IN MISERIICORDIA

ALAIN GIRAUDIE: MISERICORDIA (2024)

Guiraudie's best film since 'Stranger by the Lake'

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DIMITRI KREBS IN THE TRAITOR

MICHAEL KRUMMENACHER: THE TRAITOR/LANDESVERRÄTER(2024)

A tale of Ernst Schrämli, first Swiss executed for treason in WWII...

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EDGAR SELGE, LUNA WEDLER

EILEEN BYRNE: THE MARIANA TRENCH/MARIANENGRABEN (2024)

A buddy trip that's a meditation on death and illness

Based on...