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    WASP NETWORK (Olivier Assayas s2019)...

    WASP NETWORK (Olivier Assayas s2019)

    Now included in the NYFF Festival Coverage section thread; click above. And it can now be watched on Netflix. But this is not Assayas at his best (Metascore...
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    New on Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema ...

    New on Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema

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    THREE SHORT FILMS (Sergei Parajanov 1966-1986)

    FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt 2019)

    This film is newly...
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    63 UP (Michael Apted 2019)...

    63 UP (Michael Apted 2019)

    Just re-watched this film - the "Up" series, for me, never grows old, though its subjects do - and realized it could be included in this thread, because it's one of the...
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    ZOMBI CHILD (Bertrand Bonello 2019)...

    ZOMBI CHILD (Bertrand Bonello 2019)

    Oscillating between Haiti and Paris, Bonello weaves a story about girls in a very posh Parisian school for the children of Legion of Honor recipients and people...
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    BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles 2019)

    US theatrical distribution by Kino Lorber began Mar. 13, 2020, but due to general theater...
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    Bellocchio's The Traitor holds up. Just...

    Bellocchio's The Traitor holds up.

    Just rewatched THE TRAITOR/IL TRADITORE (Marco Bellocchio 2019) at home, on a screener. More and more it seems to mea film that's epic in many aspects. The...
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    Filmleaf NYFF review of THE TRAITOR HERE...

    Filmleaf NYFF review of THE TRAITOR HERE. I may have been hard on it but the film is a one-of-a-kind Italian epic tragicomedy of the country's struggle with that alien cancer, La Camorra, Cosa...
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    BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles...

    BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles 2019)

    Humans hunting humans for sport in a rural northern Brazilian town stands for the brutality of the current right wing regime, American...
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    Big portrait photo of Edward Lachman and Vittorio...

    Big portrait photo of Edward Lachman and Vittorio Storaro, cinematographers.

    Many photo portraits have been made with the legendary Polaroid 20×24, the large-format instant camera, framed, and...
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    Big final day for Filmleaf coverage: PARASITE...

    Big final day for Filmleaf coverage:

    PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho 2019)

    Heralded as a masterpiece and Bong's best work, this is a high-and-low thriller with social overtones. A destitute, morally...
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    ATLANTICS/ATLANTIQUE (Mati Diop 2019)...

    ATLANTICS/ATLANTIQUE (Mati Diop 2019)

    37-year-old Senegalese-French filmmaker Mati Diop was the first African woman to have a film in Competition at Cannes in its 72-year-history, and she won the...
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    A preview of MARRIAGE STORY for Bay Area...

    A preview of MARRIAGE STORY for Bay Area residents

    (SF FILM SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE)

    Revisiting some of the themes that made his Oscar-nominated TIFF 2005 selection The Squid and the Whale so...
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    SATURDAY FICTION 兰心大剧院 (LOU YE 2019)...

    SATURDAY FICTION 兰心大剧院 (LOU YE 2019)

    An elegant, complex, but rather disappointing exercise in gray stylishness set in the 'French Concession' of Shanghai in the week before the bombing of Pearl...
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    THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Polumboiu 2019)...

    THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Polumboiu 2019)

    The Romanian conceptionalist turns to crime genre with corrupt cops, an opera fanatic innkeeper, and a Canary Island whistle language. He forgets to...
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    MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello 2019)...

    MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello 2019)

    The filmmaker has specialized in woozy free flowing semi-documentaries, but here he takes the Jack London novel and sticks close to its themes while translating...
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    BEANPOLE (Kantemir Balakov 2019)...

    BEANPOLE (Kantemir Balakov 2019)

    Riffing off a book about women with PTSD in post-WWII Russia, wunderkind Balakov (this is his 2nd prizewinning Cannes film and he's only 27) delivers an intense...
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    TRAITOR/IL TRADITORE (Marco Bellocchio 2019)...

    TRAITOR/IL TRADITORE (Marco Bellocchio 2019)

    The last 20 years in the life of Mafia capo Tommaso Bruscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino) when he turned state's witness against the organization, or as the...
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    SIBYL (Justine Triet 2019)...

    SIBYL (Justine Triet 2019)

    A former successful writer turned psychiatrist returns to writing, cannibalizing confidential patient's sessions for her fiction, with success, but the complications...
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    MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumach 2019)...

    MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumach 2019)

    Performances by Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson that are virtuoso yet engaging and real. Here Baumbach takes up the subject of divorce from the point of view...
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    FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt 2019)...

    FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt 2019)

    Set in 1820 on the Oregon frontier, this is a dreamy, cramped, primitive, sad scene of hostile people scrambling... slowly... to survive. It focuses on a cook and...
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    OH MERCY!/ROUBAIX, UNE LUMIÈRE (Arnaud Desplechin...

    OH MERCY!/ROUBAIX, UNE LUMIÈRE (Arnaud Desplechin 2019)

    The great French director Arnaud Desplechin returns to his declining hometown of Roubaix on the border with Belgium for a slow-moving police...
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    SYNONYMS/SYNONYMES (Nadav Lapid 2019)...

    SYNONYMS/SYNONYMES (Nadav Lapid 2019)

    Synonymes is an explosive and theatrically stunning film that is delightful and surprising until it starts to go too far and a certain emptiness appears. ...
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    COMING NEXT (probably): SYNONYMS (SYNONYMES)...

    COMING NEXT (probably): SYNONYMS (SYNONYMES) (Nadav Lapid 2019)

    This Main Slate NYFF film is the third feature from the Israeli director of Policeman and The Kindergarten Teacher. It's about a...
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    THE WILD GOOSE LAKE 南方车站的聚会 (Diao Yinan 2019)....

    THE WILD GOOSE LAKE 南方车站的聚会 (Diao Yinan 2019).

    Found this somehow insufficiently moving in terms of classic noir, but the mise-en-scène, score, sound design, glowing neon, young men in gaudy T...
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    THE IRISHMAN (Martin Scorsese 2019). It opened...

    THE IRISHMAN (Martin Scorsese 2019).

    It opened the NYFF Friday night, the official world premiere. I have not seen it yet. It will be Out in theaters November 1 and on Netflix streaming November...
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