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In its 55th edition, each showing at the New York Film Festival opens with a rapidly edited montage of clips that takes us back to the festival’s very first year, 1963. The visual bobsled ride down...

Back in 2014, I interviewed Kent Jones, the director of the New York Film Festival, and he mentioned that he’d noticed that the aggression between civic-minded audience members and the directors presenting controversial work had more...

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Of the many human characteristics keenly observed in “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” the most powerful is the lonely sense of being the only something in one’s family. The only failure, the only daughter, the only one with no artistic talent—these are traits...

WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO BELIEVE that the “casting couch” in Hollywood had vanished over time as a relic of a less-enlightened age. People in the entertainment industry, particularly certain men in power, minimized this tradition of abuse, likening it to a rite of...

Although this year’s edition of the Chicago International Film Festival marks the first in its 53 years to not feature founder and CEO Michael Kutza serving as its Artistic Director—longtime festival associate Mimi Plauche was named...

“Happy Death Day,” a horror riff on the “Groundhog Day” model, opens with the Universal logo stopping and restarting, just as the company name is circling the globe. It’s a clever riff on the fact that...

Indiana’s longest-running celebration of cinema, the 26th Heartland Film Festival, will kick off tomorrow, October 12th, with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rob Reiner, and run through Sunday, October 22nd. It was founded by a team headed by President...

The 1940s legal thriller “Marshall” is a solid drama that gives viewers a glimpse into an alternate universe—one where African-American actors could be treated as old school movie stars, in period pieces that are less concerned...

1985, “To Live and Die in L.A.”: Rick Masters sets fire to a painting on the side of a beautiful L.A. home. He’s rail-thin, clad in black, and has a chillingly focused stare. There’s an eternal...