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Berlinale Review: Sandra Hüller Proves Magnificent In Markus Schleinzer’s Rose

If period filmmaking's credibility can be measured by the audience's ability to imagine said person scrolling on an iPhone, Markus Schleinzer deserves recognition for his contributions to the genre.
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The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films, Reviewed

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Butterfly | France | 15 mins As ...
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The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films, Reviewed

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Butcher’s Stain | Israel | 26 ...
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Watch a 2.5-Hour Conversation with Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Josh Safdie, Guillermo del Toro, and Chloé Zhao

A welcome annual tradition, the Directors Guild of America gathered their nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film—Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), ...
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The Criterion Collection’s May Lineup Includes Akira Kurosawa, Bob Fosse, and Joachim Trier on 4K

Every so often Criterion upgrades a title so old it is, in effect, new again. Case in point: Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog, first put on DVD around the time this year's college graduates were born, is ...
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Sam Rockwell on His Most Overlooked Films and Working with Gore Verbinski

Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made ...
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Berlinale Review: An Extraordinary Isabelle Huppert Dwarfs Everyone Else In Ulrike Ottinger’s Campy The Blood Countess

When I think about a quintessential Isabelle Huppert film, I like to defer to a largely forgotten feature that will soon turn ten: Serge Bozon’s 2017 Mrs. Hyde. I say “quintessential” because Huppert ...
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Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96

Non-fiction cinema is before and after Frederick Wiseman, an indisputable notion that loses no import with the news, made official by his own Zipporah Films, that the artist behind—let's name just a ...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Diane Keaton, The Brown Bunny, 2001 In Cinema & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA Diane Keaton tribute features films by Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, and Francis Ford Coppola on 35mm. Roxy ...
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Cashiers Du Cinéma Editors on Programming Their BAM Series and Celebrating Cinema Workers

Cashiers Du Cinéma, the madcap comic zine that examines the lives of movie theater employees, has programmed a new ten-film series kicking off at BAM this Friday. The series includes arthouse standard ...
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Travel to Near-Future Brazil in U.S. Trailer for Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail

With The Secret Agent and I'm Still Here leading a wave of global interest in contemporary Brazilian cinema, another gem from the country will arrive this spring. Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury ...