Brooklyn’s indie-centric film fest is chock-full of treasures.
Brooklyn is giving Gotham’s big-boy cinema galas a run for their money with the return of the annual BAMcinemaFest. Now in its fourth year, this indie-flick jubilee is
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End times (for the retchingly named Award Season) approach. Which means it’s my preferred moment, several months into the new year, to take stock of the annus prior. Consensus is an often
The exhilaratingly varied film festival turns 12.
Adolescence tends to bring out the worst in all of us, but the 12-year-old Film Comment Selects shows no signs of awkward-age inelegance. The lineup for this always-invigorating series
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1. Certified Copy Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami has created his fair share of masterpieces, but this blithe romance about emotional gamesmanship tops them all. Clear space in the canon.
2. Margaret
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A Ten, not The Ten
1. Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai) 2. The Beast (La bête) 3. In a Violent Nature 4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 5. Last
4:44: Last Day on Earth It’s a Manhattan kind of apocalypse in Abel Ferrara’s low-rent last-day-on-earth melodrama. Lower East-siders Cisco (Willem Dafoe) and Skye (Shanyn Leigh) — he’s a high-strung layabout; she’s a ditzy painter —
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THE BEST
1. Wild Grass Alain Resnais’s stalker romance brilliantly confounds at every turn. The wry final passage raises it from comic to cosmic statement — what glorious fools we mortals be.
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I was invited to contribute to Sight & Sound’s “The Greatest Films of All Time” poll earlier this year, and sent in the below ballot and commentary. Individual ballots are not up on
Lincoln Center’s tribute to nouvelle vague director Eric Rohmer surveys a master of words (and images). By Keith Uhlich
Imagine a young couple frolicking in the surf on a sun-dappled beach in summer, waves lapping the
Like You Know It All Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo’s latest follows a movie director (of course) as he gets into the kind of awkward social situations that would suit Curb Your Enthusiasm. What starts as a
THE BEST
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1 The Limits of Control Jim Jarmusch sends a mystery man on a leisurely murderous mission and makes a masterpiece—his best alongside Dead Man (1995). Usted no habla español, verdad?
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Last Bastion
It took me until middle age to love Scorsese. He was so excessively marketed as a master in my teens and twenties that I rebelled with a puerile shrug and