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With Noir City, Black is Back

April 9, 2026April 8, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments black and white cinema, classic Hollywood cinema, crime and punishment themes, Doris Day, Double Indemnity, Eddie Muller, film noir, Film Noir Foundation, Frank Sinatra, Hollywood film festivals, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, jazz culture in film, Lauren Bacall, mid-century American film, Noir City, Sweet Smell of Success, The Asphalt Jungle, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Postman Always Rings Twice

New events across the continent celebrate the enduring appeal of the shadowy genre

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James L. Dolan Has Big Balls

January 22, 2026 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments 360-degree cinema, Abu Dhabi Sphere, Alex Garland, American Film Institute, Box Office Trends, Casablanca, Darren Aronofsky, Ferris wheel, Flying monkeys, Fog effects, George Cukor, Hollywood Industry Trends, Jack Warner, James L. Dolan, King Vidor, Las Vegas Sphere, Maryland Sphere, MGM, MGM National Harbor, Movie Exhibition, Movie Going Trends, National Harbor, Postcard from Earth, Potomac River, Seat Shakers, Sphere Entertainment, Sphere Las Vegas, The Awakening, The Capitol Wheel, The Maltese Falcon, The Wizard of Oz, Truncated sphere, Vegas Sphere, Vic Fleming, Victor Fleming, Washington DC, Wizard of Oz at Sphere, Wizard of Oz Remix

After the success of the Las Vegas Sphere, here come more. Can they save Hollywood?

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How Far Was It From ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ to Epstein’s Island?

December 24, 2025January 2, 2026 Matt Hanson 1 Comment 1990s Cinema, Elite Decadence, Eyes Wide Shut, film criticism, Film Legacy, Jeffrey Epstein, Marriage and Desire, masculinity, Nicole Kidman, Psychological Drama, Sex and Power, sexual politics, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise

Stanley Kubrick’s monument to elite depravity is sadly fresh

The Best Christmas Movie You’ve Never Heard Of: ‘The Silent Partner’

December 23, 2025December 23, 2025 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments 1970s thrillers, Anders Bodelsen, Bad Santa, Canadian cinema, Christmas movies, Christopher Plummer, crime films, Curtis Hanson, Daryl Duke, Die Hard, Elliott Gould, holiday counter programming, John Candy, Oscar Peterson, Susannah York, The Silent Partner, Toronto films

Elliot Gould, Christopher Plummer, and Susannah York in a canuxploitation classic

Why ‘In Bruges’ Is the Ultimate, Unlikely Christmas Movie

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 Leslie Vooris 1 Comment Brendan Gleeson, Catholic symbolism, Christmas movies, Colin Farrell, dark comedy, In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, Ralph Fiennes

Colin Farrell’s torment is a seasonal lesson

Looking Back at Histories of Violence

November 8, 2025November 9, 2025 Matt Hanson 2 Comments A History of Violence, American dream, American identity, body horror, Canadian directors, cinema violence, Criterion Collection, David Cronenberg, Ed Harris, Maria Bello, masculinity, Sam Peckinpah, small-town America, Straw Dogs, Viggo Mortensen, violence in film

David Cronenberg’s twisted look at All-American normalcy gets the Criterion rollout

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Making the Wave New Again

October 29, 2025November 3, 2025 Laura Pruden 0 Comments 2025 films, Aubry Dolin, auteur theory, Breathless, Cahiers du Cinema, French New Wave, Guillaume Marbeck, Jean-Luc Godard, Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater, Zoey Deutch

Richard Linklater’s meticulous re-creation of Godard’s seminal film, ‘Breathless’

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‘The Omen’ Is Still Terrifying Because It’s About Parents Who Can’t Love Their Children

October 21, 2025October 24, 2025 Leslie Vooris 0 Comments 1976 horror, Damien Thorn, film analysis, Gregory Peck, horror classics, Lee Remick, parental guilt, psychological horror, Richard Donner, The Omen

Revisiting Richard Donner’s 1976 cult classic for Spooky Season

Altman at 100: Six Films That Made the Maverick an American Original

October 12, 2025 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments Altman 100 years, American cinema, Book and Film Globe, California Split, Coen Brothers influence, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, ensemble filmmaking, film history, George Segal, Gosford Park, Julie Andrews, Julie Christie, Madeleine Stowe, MASH 1970, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Paul Thomas Anderson influence, revisionist Western, Richard Linklater influence, Robert Altman centenary, Ryan Phillippe, Sally Kellerman, Shortcuts, Sterling Hayden, The Long Goodbye, Warren Beatty, Wes Anderson influence

Masterpieces from ‘the pirate king of American film making’

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The Best of the Fests: Talking Diverse Excellence at the New York Film Festival

October 8, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Alexandre Koberidze, Back Home, Days and Nights in the Forest, Drunken Noodles, Dry Leaf, Escape, Film at Lincoln Center, Georgian cinema, Hair Paper Water, international cinema, Lucio Castro, Masao Adachi, Masao Adachi Escape, New York Film Festival 2025, Nicolas Graux, NYFF 2025, Satoshi Kirishima, Satyajit Ray, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Trương Minh Quý, Trương Minh Quý Hair Paper Water, Tsai Ming-liang, Tsai Ming-liang Back Home, Venice Film Festival, Vietnamese cinema

Featuring movies from a variety of countries and in a variety of styles, NYFF’s curation sparkles

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An Iconic Movie for Our Paranoid Age

September 28, 2025October 1, 2025 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments 1970s paranoia thrillers, Anthony and Joe Russo, CIA in film, Cliff Robertson, Faye Dunaway, John Houseman, Joubert assassin, KGB NIIP program, Max von Sydow, Open Source Enterprise, Robert Redford, Seinfeld Junk Mail episode, Sydney Pollack, The Manchurian Candidate, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor

‘Three Days of the Condor’ gets more frightening as it gets older

So Farewell, Then, Robert Redford

September 16, 2025September 19, 2025 Samuel Porteous 4 Comments Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Elizabeth Ashley, Natalie Wood, Perry Mason, Robert Redford, Sundance Film Festival

An appreciation of a ‘pretty boy’ done good

Dreaming of Bresson

September 2, 2025September 2, 2025 Kenji Fujishima 1 Comment Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Guillaume de Forêts, Isabelle Weingarten, Luchino Visconti, Pierre Lhomme, Robert Bresson

Why you should run to see the 4k restoration of ‘Four Nights of a Dreamer’

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Give Yourself Over to Absolute Pleasure.

August 20, 2025August 20, 2025 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Angie Bowie, Jim Sharman, Meat Loaf, Patricia Quinn, Peter Hinwood, Richard O’Brien, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry, Time Warp

‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ turns 50

Auteur Candy to Get You Through the Dog Days of Summer

July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments Albert Lewin, Ann Hui, Anne, Ava Gardner, Catherine Breillat, Catherine Holly, Cliff Robertson, Criterion Channel, David Lean, Dr. Cukrowicz, Edwin Middleton, Elizabeth Taylor, Endless Summer, Frank Perry, Georgio de Chirico, Gidget, House, James Darren, Jaques Deray, John Waters, July Rhapsody, Katherine Hepburn, La Piscine, Last Summer, Lea Drucker, Lime Kiln Field Day, Man Ray, Martin Scorsese, Montgomery Clift, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Salvador Dali, Sandra Dee, Sean McCoy, Suddenly Last Summer, Summertime, T. Hayes Hunter, Tennessee Williams, The Beaning, The Swimmer, Violet Venable

For movie buffs, Criterion has got what it takes

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