Never Rarely Sometimes Always https://www.focusfeatures.com/never-rarely-sometimes-always After having its theatrical run cut short, Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always can now be rented at home. The director of indie films It Felt Like Love and Beach Rats, critically acclaimed for their naturalism and delicacy in their depiction of young adults, Hittman’s film is ...
Bacurau https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/3721 With all New York area theaters closed due to COVID, the movie theaters are now coming to you. Bacurau, the critically-acclaimed Brazilian film from directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, was scheduled to be released this month, but distributor Kino Lorber decided to launch Kino Marquee to allow viewers ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE HANDMAID'S TALE This week’s classic is The Handmaid's Tale, the original 1990 film adaptation of the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Margaret Atwood preferred to call her 1985 novel a work of “speculative fiction” rather than one of science fiction—implying that all the ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | HOLLOW TRIUMPH This week’s classic is Hollow Triumph, the 1948 film noir directed by Steve Sekely. After his back to back successes in 1942 with Now, Voyager and Casablanca, Austrian-born actor Paul Henreid found himself boxed in by the Hollywood studio system, eager to find more challenging roles ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | LEGALLY BLONDE This week’s classic is Legally Blonde, the 2001 romantic comedy directed by Robert Luketic. Starring Reese Witherspoon in one of her career signature roles, Legally Blonde also gives Hollywood’s obsession with quote/unquote “dumb blonde” a refreshing update with a welcome feminist spin. Witherspoon plays Elle Woods, ...
New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF), North America’s largest film festival for children and teens, continues its 23rd edition through March 15, 2020. This year’s slate includes new animated, live action, and documentary features, alongside short film collections. During March 14-15 several movie theatres -- SVA Theatre, IFC Center, and the ...
First Cow, the new A24 film from minimalist director Kelly Reichardt, will open on March 6th at the Angelika Film Center and AMC Lincoln Square. Q&A sessions with Reichardt will follow certain screenings at both locations on March 6th and 7th. Set in rural Oregon (like many of Reichardt’s previous ...
The acclaimed Russian post-WWII drama Beanpole, directed by 28-year-old Kantemir Balagov — who won Un Certain Regard’s Best Director prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for this “richly burnished, occasionally harrowing rendering of the persistent scars of war” — is still screening at the Film Forum in Manhattan through ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE GUNS OF NAVARONE This week’s classic is The Guns of Navarone, the 1961 World War 2 action adventure drama directed by J. Lee Thompson. Although a work of fiction, The Guns of Navarone was inspired by the actual wartime conflict in the Aegean Sea, and opens with ...
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