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Author: Kenji Fujishima

Turning Red
FILM 

My Five Favorite Movies of 2022

December 22, 2022December 27, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 1 Comment Cate Blanchett, Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg, Hong Sang-soo, Il Buco, In Front of Your Face, Michelangelo Frammartino, Tár, Todd Field, Turning Red

From the mainstream to the (very) independent, here are one critic’s choices from an understatedly great cinematic year

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New York Film Festival
FILM 

Inspiration and Disappointment At The New York Film Festival

October 18, 2022October 22, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, Armageddon Time, Banks Repeta, Jafar Panahi, Jaylin Webb, Jeremy Strong, No Bears, Queens of the Qing Dynasty

Much-anticipated titles didn’t exactly deliver what our critic expected

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New York Film Festival
FILM 

The New York Film Festival, Back on Form

October 10, 2022October 12, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Chinonye Chukwu, Claire Denis, Danielle Deadwyler, Decision To Leave, Margaret Qualley, New York Film Festival, Park Chan-Wook, Stars at Noon, Till

NYFF features an excellent slate, and expands to the outer boroughs

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The Wobblies
FILM 

The Return of ‘The Wobblies’

May 1, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Deborah Shaffer, Stewart Bird, The Wobblies

For May Day, a reissue of a classic documentary about a radical labor movement

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CREATORS 

The Art of Halyna Hutchins

November 9, 2021April 3, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Adam Egypt Mortimer, Alec Baldwin, Archenemy, Blindfire, Darlin, Halyna Hutchins, Joe Mangianello, Lucky McKee, Polyanna McIntosh, Rust, Snowbound

What we lost in the shooting death on the set of ‘Rust’

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FILM 

‘C’mon C’mon,’ ‘Parallel Mothers,’ and ‘Memoria’

October 14, 2021October 19, 2021 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Apichatpong Weerasethakul, C'mon C'mon, Joaquin Phoenix, Memoria, Mike Mills, Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar, Penelope Cruz, Tilda Swinton

Family concerns dominate the last week of the NYFF

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Velvet Underground
DOCUMENTARY FILM 

‘The Velvet Underground’ Above Ground

October 5, 2021October 7, 2021 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Andy Warhol, Flee, Il Buco, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Lou Reed, Michelangelo Frammartino, New York Film Festival, The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes

Another dispatch from the New York Film Festival

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New York Film Festival
FILM 

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

September 27, 2021September 29, 2021 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Benedetta, Dario Argento, Denzel Washington, Drive My Car, Frances McDormand, Gaspar Noé, Haruki Murakami, Joel Coen, Kathryn Hunter, Lincoln Center, New York Film Festival, Radu Jude, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Titane, Vortex

The New York Film Festival Returns…and Expands

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Belmondo
Actors CREATORS Remembrance 

RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo

September 10, 2021September 14, 2021 Kenji Fujishima 2 Comments Breathless, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, Sophia Loren, Vittoria De Sica

‘Breathless’ made him a revered cinema icon for decades

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CREATORS FILM 

‘Undine’ Mixes Myth and Magic

June 4, 2021March 15, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Berlin, Christian Petzold, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Paula Beer, Undine

Petzold’s newest film is also his most accessible

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About Endlessness
FILM 

‘About Endlessness,’ the Latest Film From One of the Finest Living Directors

April 30, 2021March 15, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, About Endlessness, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Robert Bresson, Roy Andersson, Wes Anderson

Roy Andersson, from Sweden, has a tragicomic style all his own

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Center Stage
FILM 

‘Center Stage’ Returns to the Spotlight

March 23, 2021March 15, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Center Stage, Maggie Cheung, Ruan Lingyu, Tony Kwan

New York’s Metrograph theater revives an unconventional Chinese biopic

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Wong Kar-Wai
FILM 

The Wonderful World of Wong Kar-Wai

December 17, 2020March 15, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments

U.S. debuts highlight a retrospective of the great filmmaker’s works

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Collective
DOCUMENTARY FILM 

Something’s Rotten in Romania

November 24, 2020March 15, 2022 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Alexander Nanau, Collective, Romania, Vlad Voiculescu

‘Collective,’ Alexander Nanau’s documentary about corruption in Romanian society, has lessons to impart worldwide.

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French Exit
FILM 

French Exit Closes out the New York Film Festival

October 12, 2020October 14, 2020 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Atarrabi & Mikelats, French Exit, John Boyega, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Pfeiffer, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Patrick DeWitt, Small Axe, Steve McQueen

Family ties bind a wide array of cinematic visions

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