Nothing thrills me more than attending the NY Film Festival. I used to hitchhike from Provincetown, Mass. in the 1970s and sleep on the couch of the late, great Cookie Mueller (ironically featured on the Nan Goldin poster for this…
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When German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder died in 1982, I was reminded of the funeral of another director- Ernst Lubitsch in 1947. Afterwards, Billy Wilder and William Wyler were leaving the burial and Wyler said “Well, no more Lubitsch,” and…
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A new 4K restoration of a brilliant 2005 film by one of my favorite directors- Lodge Kerrigan– Keane is getting a run at Film At Lincoln Center opening August 19 and if you’ve never seen it you are really missing…
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Neon Lights is an inventively twisted psychological thriller that’s more like a nightmare glimpse inside a disordered mind. Clay (Dana Abraham) is a tech giant and visionary, but he is starting to lose it. There is even a threat…
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A woman haunted by a past love who returns to wreak havoc on her marriage is the subject for Claire Denis’ devastating romantic triangle tale. A stunning, brilliant Juliette Binoche plays Sara, a current affairs live radio host, married to…
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A thick cloud of menace hangs over David Lynch’s brilliant, nightmarish creep-fest. What begins as a story of a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) and his wife (Patricia Arquette) who receive mysterious videotapes showing static shots of the outside of their…
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“Surgery is the new sex,” is the mantra is director David Cronenberg’s glorious return to body horror- Crimes of the Future. Set in a dystopian future of “accelerated evolution syndrome” where people have been developing unexplained new organs in their…
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Opening at IFC Center on Friday April 29 is Vortex, director Gaspar Noe’s shattering portrait of an elderly couple shakily hanging on by a thread in their cluttered, lived-in flat. The great Italian director Dario Argento plays the husband, with…
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If you ever fantasized what Boogie Nights would be like if it suddenly turned into a slasher movie, your prayers have been answered with X, the fiendish, fabulous new horror film by Ti West, which opened in theaters Friday, March…
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It was already bad enough. But there was some solace to being able to see several acclaimed new movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Apple+ etc. Although I have to admit I didn’t much care for Jane Campion’s The Power…
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