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Unexpected Gems From the New York Film Festival

October 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments arthouse cinema, Arundhati Roy, China, Currents, documentary, Éric Baudelaire, experimental cinema, Film at Lincoln Center, Film festival, For the Moon, Goodbye South Goodbye, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, Kinmen, Luise Donschen, movie reviews, National Institute for Blind Youth, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Overt Listening, Pradip Krishen, restored films, Revivals, Taiwan, Tiffany Sia, Tomorrow a Long Time Ago, world cinema

From avant-garde documentaries to restored classics, the festival’s deepest cuts were among its finest.

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Is ‘Mountains of the Moon’ Our Generation’s ‘Koyaanisqatsi’?

October 7, 2026October 8, 2026 Adam Hirschfelder 0 Comments adventure sports, Amazon Prime Video, Bill Walton, Chris Benchetler, David Lemieux, Deadheads, documentary, Fire on the Mountain, Furthur bus, Grahame Lesh, Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead music, Human Be-In, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Mickey Hart, Mountains on the Moon, outdoor films, Paul Stamets, Phil Lesh, psychedelic art, San Francisco, skiing, snowboarding, Terrapin Family Band

Chris Benchetler’s new movie is a meditation on the inter-connectedness of action sports, Grateful Dead music, and all living things that surround us and bind us together.

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Check Out Boeing in ‘Freefall’

September 23, 2026September 28, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 737 MAX, 737 MAX 9, Airbus, aircraft manufacturing, Alaska Airlines, aviation, aviation safety, Boeing, capitalism, commercial aviation, corporate accountability, corporate culture, documentary, documentary films, engineering, film review, Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing, John Barnett, movie review, Netflix, Netflix documentary, plane crashes, quality control, Rory Kennedy, safety, whistleblowers

New documentary show crashes don’t come from just one lil’ engineering failure

Hasta La Vista, Toronto, You Ended Strong

September 22, 2026September 28, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Ah Girl, Arthur Harari, Canadian cinema, coming of age, documentary, French cinema, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ian Bawa, Iranian cinema, Japanese cinema, La Gradiva, Léa Seydoux, Look Back, Mandeep Sodhi, Marine Atlan, Niels Schneider, Ong Xuan Jing, Pegah Ahangarani, psychological thriller, Rehearsals for a Revolution, Singapore cinema, Strong Son, The Unknown, TIFF 2026, Toronto International Film Festival

TIFF 2026’s final set of films include Marine Atlan’s stunning ‘La Gradiva’ to daring works from Iran, France, Japan, and Singapore

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Does Living Longest Make You ‘The Oldest Person in the World’?

September 16, 2026September 15, 2026 Brooke Berman 0 Comments aging, aging gracefully, Brooklyn, documentary, documentary film, Emma Morano, Guinness World Records, health, Italy, Jamaica, Kane Tanaka, legacy, life and death, longevity, memoir, mortality, Sam Green, Sister André, supercentenarians, Susannah Mushatt Jones, The Oldest Person in the World, Time, Violet Brown

Sam Green’s moving decade-long doc goes beyond supercentenarians to become something far richer than a study of longevity

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Venice Crowns ‘Woman Unknown’

September 16, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 1900, A Good Little Soldier, Alba Rohrwacher, Alex Gibney, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bernardo Bertolucci, Boatbuilders, Bunker, Burgundy, Cho Yeo-jeong, cinema, documentary, Elon Musk, Film festival, Florian Zeller, Gaza, Golden Lion, Gregory Kershaw, Israel, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem, Jeon Do-yeon, John Malkovich, Joie de Vivre, Julia Loktev, Last Tango In Paris, Lee Chang-dong, Luca Guadagnino, Luke Lorentzen, Martin McDonagh, Mathilde Arcel, May El-Toukhy, Michael Dweck, Musk documentary, My Undesirable Friends, NAZA, Paul Dano, Penelope Cruz, Possible Love, Primetime, Rachel Szor, Robert Pattinson, Stéphane Brizé, Stephen Graham, Sul Kyung-gu, The Conformist, The Guardian, The Last Emperor, The Spiral, Venice 2026, Venice Film Festival, Wild Horse Nine, Woman Unknown, Yuval Abraham, Zo In-sung

May El-Toukhy takes the Golden Lion as class, power and inequality dominate the festival

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The Strange Vibe — and Unexpected Pleasures — of TIFF 2026

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments animated film, Bitter Christmas, Canadian cinema, Carol Nguyen, Cody Lightning, Colombian cinema, documentary, Girleza Duave Cerezo, hockey movie, In Waves, Indigenous cinema, Juan Andrés Arango Garcia, L'AUTRE, Pedro Almodóvar, Phuong-Mai Nguyen, Quebec cinema, Smudge the Blades, Stephanie Hsu, Still Night Burning House, surfing, TIFF 2026, Toronto International Film Festival, Where the River Begins, Will Sharpe

The Toronto Film Festival continues with Pedro Almodóvar, rainforest odysseys and Indigenous hockey stories

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Grapes, Violins, and Growing Up: A First Look at This Year’s Toronto Film Festival

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments animation, Anthony Chen, Canadian cinema, David Beaudoin, documentary, Emanuele Gerosa, Ervin Han, Félix Munger, Filipino cinema, Film festival, John Torres, John Trengove, Low Lies the Land, Raúl García, Rémi St-Michael, Singapore cinema, South African cinema, The Remotes, The Smell of Apples, The Violinist, TIFF 2026, TIFF review, Toronto International Film Festival, Toy Gun Bandit, We Are All Strangers, world cinema

TIFF 2026 leads with the unexpected

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‘Brailled It’ Shows the Unusual Possibilities of Blind Filmmaking

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments accessibility, blind students, blindness, Braille, Braille Challenge, Brailled It, Brendan Schulze, Christopher Morgan, coming of age, David Grabias, disability, documentary, documentary film, education, film review, independent film, Isaiah Gauthier, Salome Cummins, teen documentary

New doc captures the awkwardness of being a blind teenager at the 2024 Braille Challenge

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Venice 2026: The Rich, the Powerful, and the Cost of Looking Away

September 12, 2026September 10, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Alex Gibney, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bunker, Cho Yeo-jeong, cinema, documentary, Elon Musk, Film festival, Florian Zeller, Gaza, Israel, Javier Bardem, Jeon Do-yeon, Julia Loktev, Lee Chang-dong, Musk documentary, My Undesirable Friends, NAZA, Paul Dano, Penelope Cruz, Possible Love, Rachel Szor, Stephen Graham, Sul Kyung-gu, The Guardian, Venice 2026, Venice Film Festival, Yuval Abraham, Zo In-sung

Standout films on Musk, Gaza, and class conflict turn power and moral failure into gripping cinema

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Raygun: the Kangaroo That Got Judged

September 11, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 1 Comment Australia, breakdancing, breaking, Chapman Way, dance, documentary, hip hop culture, Internet culture, interview, Maclain Way, memes, Netflix, Olympic breaking, Olympics, Paris Olympics, Rachael Gunn, Raygun, Rocky, Sammy Free, Untold, Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly, viral media

‘Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly’ gets behind the scenes of Australia’s most hated Olympian

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The BFG Raygun Interview

September 11, 2026September 14, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Australia, Book and Film Globe, breakdancing, breaking, Chapman Way, dance, documentary, hip hop culture, Internet culture, interview, Maclain Way, memes, Netflix, Olympic breaking, Olympics, Paris Olympics, Rachael Gunn, Raygun, Sammy Free, Untold, Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly, viral media

Australia’s most famous breakdancer talks about the Olympics and ‘Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly’

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‘The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias’ Preaches Radical Pessimism at the End of the World

September 9, 2026September 14, 2026 Austin Tannenbaum 1 Comment Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, cinema, climate change, cultural criticism, documentary, dystopia, ecology, film review, Greta Thunberg, ideology, Lars Von Trier, Melancholia, philosophy, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, Slavoj Žižek, Sophie Fiennes, Sullivan's Travels, The Pervert's Guide to Utopias, The Prestige, utopia, V for Vendetta, Venice 2026, Venice Film Festival

In Venice, Sophie Fiennes’ third collaboration with Zizek sees the 77-year-old at his most political — and earnest

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40 Years On, UConn’s Geno Auriemma is Still Butting Heads… and Winning

August 26, 2026August 30, 2026 Jon Hart 0 Comments Apple TV, basketball, Dawn Staley, Diana Taurasi, documentary, Erica Sashin, Geno Auriemma, Matthew Hamachek, NCAA basketball, Paige Bueckers, Pat Summitt, Rebecca Lobo, Sarah Strong, sports documentary, Television Review, The Dynasty: UConn Huskies, UConn, UConn Huskies, women's basketball

In ‘Dynasty,’ Apple covers his remarkable, often tumultuous career

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Remember SNL’s Pat?

August 21, 2026August 22, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments androgyny, Christopher Walken, Comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, documentary, gender identity, It's Pat!, Julia Sweeney, Larry David, Matt Foley, nonbinary, Pat, Peacock, Rowan Haber, Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, sketch comedy, SNL, Toonces, transgender, We Are Pat

New documentary argues Julia Sweeney’s character was inspiring — and maybe bigoted

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