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New York 2024 Interview: Paul Schrader on Realizing Russell Banks' OH, CANADA

In Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, adapted from Russell Banks’ Foregone, a renowned documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife subjects himself to a filmed interview while battling the throes of death. This final interview, to be captured by a former pupil turned...

New York 2024 Review: THE DAMNED (IL DANNATI), Neorealist Anti-Western About the Senselessness of War

Roberto Minervini’s new film, which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, is the second feature in this festival round to be titled The Damned. Another movie with the same English-language title, directed by Thordur Palsson and featured...

New York 2024 Review: LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR Conjures Up Celestial Music

Jem Cohen makes a gentle inquiry to human connections while presenting it within the bigger picture; in this case, the universe.