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Maybe You Can Go Home Again, Samba Traore

August 27, 2026August 30, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments 4K restoration, Abdoulaye Komboudri, African cinema, art house cinema, Bakary Sangaré, Berlin International Film Festival, Burkina Faso, Crime Drama, Film at Lincoln Center, film restoration, film review, foreign language film, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Irène Tassembedo, Mariam Kaba, Moumouni Campaoré, Samba Traore, Silver Bear, world cinema

Rerelease of Silver Bear winner is an optimistic blast from art house cinema past

What Does ‘Network’ Have To Tell Us About Outrage, 50 Years On

July 24, 2026July 20, 2026 Matt Hanson 0 Comments 1976 films, Arthur Jensen, Beatrice Straight, broadcast journalism, capitalism, classic cinema, corporate media, Criterion Collection, Diana Christensen, Faye Dunaway, film criticism, globalization, Howard Beale, Jamelle Bouie, JD Vance, Journalism, Max Schumacher, media criticism, Ned Beatty, neoliberalism, Network, news media, Oscar winners, Paddy Chayefsky, PBS NewsHour, Peter Finch, ratings, Richard Nixon, Robert Duvall, sensationalism, Sidney Lumet, Television, The Guardian, UBS, Watergate, William Holden

We’re still ‘mad as hell’ but now everyone is yelling into the ether

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Extras: An Obituary

July 22, 2026July 30, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 1 Comment AI, Alex Garland, animatronics, Arab Legion, Avengers: Endgame, background actors, Battle of Aqaba, blockbusters, Book and Film Globe, CGI, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan films, CIvil War, D Day, David Lean, David Lean films, digital crowds, Dunkirk, epic cinema, Extras, film history, film production, Greece, Hollywood, Jordan, King Hussein, King Hussein of Jordan, Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia battle scene, Matt Damon, Messenia, Normandy, Oppenheimer, Peter Jackson, practical effects, puppetry, Ray Mendoza, SAG-AFTRA, Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Steven Spielberg, T.E. Lawrence, Tenet, The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings, The Odyssey, union actors, visual effects, William Tecumseh Sherman

AI sounds the death knell for living crowds of people on film

‘The Odyssey’ Is the Most Christopher Nolan Film Yet

July 16, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 70mm, adaptation, ancient Greece, Anne Hathaway, Athena, Benny Safdie, Bill Irwin, Calypso, Charlize Theron, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan films, Circe, Classics, Cyclops, Elliot Page, epic films, Greek epic, Greek mythology, Hades, Homer, IMAX, Ithaca, literature, Lupita Nyong’o, Matt Damon, movie review, mythology, Odysseus, Odyssey review, Penelope, Polyphemus, practical effects, Robert Pattinson, Samantha Morton, Telemachus, The Odyssey, Tom Holland, Travis Scott, Trojan War, Zendaya

A star-studded epic brings Homer to the 21st century

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 3 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

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