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A crippling year for theatrical exhibition, the pandemic-forced shutdowns meant most films weren’t available for viewing in their ideal presentation. However, through the invention and proliferation of Virtual Cinemas as well as festivals going online, it meant more people could get access to films they otherwise wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do so for some time. And with nearly all blockbusters delayed to 2021 or beyond, it meant the more nimble ecosystem of independent and foreign film got the spotlight. Which is to say, there were a few bright points in an otherwise bleak cinematic landscape. So, as we look to hopefully a more promising year, it’s my hope exhibition can survive alongside this more accessible virtual world.

Looking back at the 2020 new releases, there’s a number of films that narrowly missed my top 15, including Dick Johnson Is Dead, The Assistant, Bacurau, Boys State, Minari, Mangrove,...

Without going into the specifics of the obstacles that were overcome by the heroic efforts of film distributors, 2020 was a stronger year for films released in the United States than could have been reasonably expected, though it only sparingly reached the heights of last year. Note the specific term “released”: all of the films on my list premiered before 2020 even began, which only further heightens the importance of both the festival circuit and the people dedicated to giving films their proper due, whether it be in repertory theaters or in virtual cinemas. One special mention: my favorite film released this year from the previous decade is Hong Sang-soo’s Yourself and Yours, which premiered in 2016 but only just received a release; my personal eligibility rules limit the films on this list to a two-year window, but otherwise it would be at the very top of this list.

Honorable Mentions: Lovers Rock,...

Wedged between “Right Now, Wrong Then” (2015) and the successive “Claire’s Camera” and “On the Beach at Night Alone” (both 2017), “Yourself and Yours” marks a delicate and pivotal moment for director Hong Sang-soo’s life, a time for changes which sips through the film and that will affect (undoubtedly in a positive way) his following works. The film enjoyed great success at the Toronto, San Sebastian (winner), Hamburg and many other Festivals.

“Yourself and Yours” is streaming on Mubi

The film opens in a hot and sticky Korean summer, with a conversation between the painter Young-soo (Kim Joo-hyuk) and a friend. Young-soo is worried about his dying mother but this concern is soon relegated to the back burner when his friend drops a bomb; his girlfriend Min-jung (Lee Yoo-young) was spotted drinking with a man in a bar, where she eventually even caused a drunk fight. Young-soo is incredulous, he doesn’t think it’s possible,...

It’s been six years since Shin Min-ah (“A Bittersweet Life”) was last seen on the big screen, having taken some time off work to take care of Kim Woo-bin as he recovered from nasal cancer. While she has been in a couple k-dramas since, she makes her comeback in films with debutante director Jo Seul-ye’s psychological thriller “Diva”.

Synopsis

Skill, beauty, personality, ‘Diving Diva’ Yi-yeong has it all. Not being able to be with her best friend Soo-jin is the only thing that gets in her way. Just so she can help Soo-jin out, she changes her event to synchronizing swimming. While pouring everything to Olympics selection practice, Soo-jin and Yi-yeong are involved in a freak accident. Soo-jin disappears without a trace, while Yi-yeong survives but loses her memory. Her memory slowly comes back to her but remembers strange side of Soo-jin. Her iron will begins to shake on the diving board.

Chicago – Using safety-first precautions, the Music Box Theatre of Chicago has reopened as of July 3rd for limited seating (see link below for details). The Gene Siskel Film Center continues “Film Center From Your Sofa.”

Music Box Theatre Screens Vertigo, Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight and Relic at the Re-Opened Theater. Plus Virtual Films for At Home Continue.

Vertigo

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As of July 3rd, 2020, Music Box Theatre became on of the first movie houses in Chicago to re-open in compliance with Illinois State guideline Phase 4 protocol. The complete rules for coming to the theater can be accessed by clicking here.

For virtual cinema, Music Box Theatre will continue get a percentage of the proceeds from any screening. Click site link below for details.

Scheduled: Simultaneous with the open theater.

Description: In Theater: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo in 70mm. Tales From The Crypt: Demon brings the popular...

Movies are slowly starting to trickle back into theaters, emphasis on the word “slowly.” For the time being, audiences’ options are still better at home, as this week’s crop of new films includes outrageous new genre fare — such as “Becky,” from the directors of “Cooties,” which plays a bit like a hard-r version of “Home Alone” — and festival standouts such as Hong Sang-soo’s “Yourself and Yours.”

“The Invisible Man” star Elisabeth Moss elaborates on her ever-widening scope of tortured women in the wildly unconventional Shirley Jackson biopic, a movie which portrays the author of “The Lottery” as the kind of character one might discover in her mind-bending horror tales.

Here’s a complete rundown of the week’s new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them. Find more movies and TV shows to stream here.

Playing in drive-ins and extremely limited release:...

"Shall we drink anyway?" The Cinema Guild has released an official Us trailer for yet another Hong Sang-soo film titled Yourself and Yours, which first premiered at the Toronto & San Sebastian Film Festivals in 2016. This is the third Hong Sang-soo film being released this year along with Hill of Freedom and The Woman Who Ran. The story follows a couple that splits one night after an argument about the woman being seen with another man. The next day, she has a series of encounters with other men. But to them it seems she’s not herself... It's described as a "comic mystery" and "delightfully drunken riff on Abbas Kiarostami". Starring Ju-hyuk Kim, Yoo-Young Lee, Kwon Haehyo, Yu Junsang, and Kim Euisung, Yourself and Yours is a "pleasing puzzle full of mistaken identity, excessive drinking and lots of he-said, she-said. As the rumors pile up, Hong asks: In a relationship, how...

As of late, Hong Sangsoo’s recent features have enjoyed U.S. distribution but thankfully his back catalog is now, after some festival plays, getting a new life here starting next month. The first of three films from the prolific South Korean director that will be arriving in Virtual Cinemas is his 2016 comedy Yourself and Yours. Courtesy of Cinema Guild, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first U.S. trailer, which sets up the story of drinking, relationships, and how they intertwine in perhaps regretful ways.

One of Hong Sangsoo’s most delightful comic mysteries, the film follows a painter Youngsoo (Kim Joohyuk), who learns that his girlfriend, Minjung (Lee Yooyoung), was recently seen having drinks with another man. When Youngsoo questions her about it, they fight and part on bad terms. The next day, Youngsoo tries to find her, but can’t. As he wanders and frets, Minjung...

Chicago – Both the Music Box Theatre and the Gene Siskel Film Center have continued their at-home screenings, due to the physical theaters having to close during the pandemic quarantine. Below are the updates to their current offerings.

Music Box Theatre Presents Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 6, Alice, Deerskin, Straight Up, Lucky Grandma and Magnolia Pictures Documentaries

Chicagoland Shorts Vol 6

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The Music Box Theatre will get a percentage of the proceeds from any screening. Click site link below for details.

Scheduled: Now until the theater re-opens.

Description: Chicagoland Shorts Vol 6 is the annual Windy City overview of local short films works, presented by Full Spectrum Productions. See the Music Box website for a list of the films.

Alice Emilie Piponnier is the perfect wife and mother, living happily with her husband Francois and their son in an apartment in Paris. When her credit cards are declined one day while shopping,...

Cinema Guild has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the Hong Sangsoo comedy Yourself and Yours, which will open on June 5 with digital and home video releases set for later this year.

The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 and follows Youngsoo (Kim Joohyuk), who learns that his girlfriend, Minjung (Lee Yooyoung), was recently seen having drinks with another man. When Youngsoo questions her about it, they fight and part on bad terms. The next day, Youngsoo tries to find her, but can’t. As he wanders and frets, Minjung has a series of encounters with other men. But to them, it seems she’s not herself.

Yourself and Yours is the second film to open as part of Cinema Guild’s virtual cinema initiative .

Comedy Dynamics has acquired the Jeffrey Scott Collins-directed rom-com Poor Greg Drowning. The film will be released through the Comedy Dynamics network on August 11. This netflix includes Amazon Prime Video, Spectrum, Apple TV, Dish, Google Play, among others.

The comedy follows a love addict named Greg (On Becoming A God in Central Florida‘s Graham Sibley), whose girlfriend left him for their couples’ therapist. Depressed, heartbroken, and unemployed, Greg must find a roommate to help pay rent. But Greg scares all potential roommates away, except for a girl named Peyton who moves in and whom Greg falls madly in love with.

Poor Greg Drowning also features Cedric the Entertainer, Christine Woods, George Basil, Marguerite Gioia Insolia (Mad Men), and Jenny O’Hara.

This acquisition deal was negotiated by Anna Roberts of Comedy Dynamics and Tiffany Boyle and Geoff Lee of Ramo Law.

Seoul-based independent sales house Finecut has picked up international sales right to mystery thriller “Diva.” Starring Shin Min-a (“The Naked Kitchen”) and Lee You-young (“Yourself and Yours”), the drama is currently in production.

Finecut also represents “Nailed,” “Second Life” and “Too Hot to Die.” “Nailed” and “Life” are making their world premieres in the Busan Festival’s Korean Cinema Today — Panorama and New Currents competition, respectively. “Too Hot” is Finecut’s market premiere title.

“Nailed,” Ha Yoon-jae’s feature debut, tells the story about a couple who intentionally damage car tires in an attempt to draw more customers to their auto shop. Director Park Young-ju’s feature debut, “Life,” is about a high school girl who tells lies to draw attention from her peers, only to find herself involved in a deadly mishap. Park’s short film “1 Kilogram” screened at the 2016 Cannes Cine Foundation.

“Too Hot” is a comedy directed by Park Jin-young.

’Feature debut of Jo Seul-yeah stars Shin Min-a and Lee You-young.

South Korean sales agent Finecut has picked up international rights to mystery thriller Diva, starring Shin Min-a (A Bittersweet Life) and Lee You-young (Yourself And Yours).

The company is also selling two official Busan International Film Festival (Biff) selections set for world premieres here – Second Life and Nailed – along with comedy Too Hot To Die, which is screening as a market premiere in the Asian Film Market.

Diva, the feature debut of director Jo Seul-yeah, revolves around iron-willed Lee-young (played by Shin), a beautiful, successful and driven “diving diva...

’Feature debut of Jo Seul-yeah stars Shin Min-a and Lee You-young.

South Korean sales agent Finecut has picked up international rights to mystery thriller Diva, starring Shin Min-a (A Bittersweet Life) and Lee You-young (Yourself And Yours).

The company is also selling two official Busan International Film Festival (Biff) selections set for world premieres here – Second Life and Nailed – along with comedy Too Hot To Die, which is screening as a market premiere in the Asian Film Market.

Diva, the feature debut of director Jo Seul-yeah, revolves around iron-willed Lee-young (played by Shin), a beautiful, successful and driven “diving diva...

Possibly South Korea’s busiest actor, Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) is back once again doing what he does best, making us laugh and kicking seven shades out of the bad guys, in this year’s Chuseok holidays release “Wonderful Ghost” (also known as “The Soul-Mate).

Synopsis

Tae-jin, a patrol officer, gets into an accident while investigating a case, and his soul gets separated from his body. He is desperate to solve the case and return to his beloved girlfriend, but is at his wits’ end as a wandering spirit. Unexpectedly Tae-jin discovers someone who can see him, but it is none other than his archfoe and neighbor Jang-su, who runs a judo studio.

Directed by Jo Won-hee and co-starring Lee Yoo-young, “Wonderful Ghost” will release in South Korea in September during the coveted Chuseok holidays time-slot.

Johnnie To’s gritty mainland crime epic “Drug War” (2012) is given a slick and mostly effective South Korean re-tooling in “Believer.” Centered on a dogged cop obsessed with flushing out a mysterious drug kingpin, this pacy outing is loaded with colorful characters but fails to deliver the emotional intensity it promises. The first feature by director and co-writer Lee Hae-young since his classy period thriller “The Silenced” (2015), “Believer” has notched two million admissions since its May 22 local release. An entertaining action-thriller accessible for non-Korean viewers, “Believer” ought to perform well when it opens June 8 on 23 North American screens.

Action-packed but free of the extreme brutality that sometimes hinders the commercial prospects of Korean genre films in offshore markets, “Believer” borrows just the basics of To’s film. While faithfully recreating some of the original’s most famous sequences, Lee and female co-writer Chung Seo-kyung have significantly altered plot and character details elsewhere.

Well Go USA has nabbed North American rights to Believer, the upcoming South Korean action crime film from Lee Hae-young (The Silenced).

The film is a remake of the Hong Kong gangster film maestro Johnnie To's 2012 film Drug War. It features the last starring performance of South Korean actor Kim Joo-hyuk (Yourself and Yours, The Servant), who died in a car accident at the age of 44 last year. Cho Jin-woong, Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Sung-ryung and Park Hae-joon also star.

Described as an eclectic crime thriller, the film follows a low-level drug dealer who conspires with a dangerously ambitious...

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The latest works from Manuel Abramovich, Filipa César, Raymond Depardon, Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi, Ilian Metev, Hong Sang-soo and Frederick Wiseman join the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of this year's San Sebastian Film Festival, which will open with Ruben Östlund's The Square.

The section will also feature documentaries Ex Libris: New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman and 12 Days (12 Jours) - about mental health assessments in France - by Raymond Depardon.

Hong Sang-soo who won San Sebastian's Silver Shell for Best Director last year for Yourself And Yours (Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot) - returns with The Day After (Geu-hu) about a woman whose predecessor had been having an affair with her boss.

Argentine rising star Manuel Abramovich brings his second film Solar which looks at the function of the Argentine Army more than three decades after the end of the dictatorship...

And the winners are…

Best Picture: Moonlight

Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings

Best Director: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight

Best Actor: Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress: Natalie Portman – Jackie

Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali – Moonlight

Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris – Moonlight

Best Original Screenplay: Hell or High Water – Taylor Sheridan

Best Adapted Screenplay: Arrival – Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang

Best Editing: La La Land – Tom Cross

Best Cinematography: La La Land – Linus Sandgren

Best Film Not in the English Language: The Handmaiden – South Korea

Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America

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The Online Film Critics Society — of which I am a member — has announced the nominees for its 2016 awards. Links here go to my reviews, with reviews to come for most if not all those I haven’t yet reviewed. Winners will be announced Tuesday, January 3rd.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

Arrival

The Handmaiden...

“Moonlight” dominated IndieWire’s 2016 Critics Poll, winning five of the 10 categories in which it was eligible, but there’s plenty more acclaim to go around. Below, we’ve listed the top finishers in all of our 15 categories. Some of these films and performances have dominated the year-end discussion, but others are still looking for distribution homes or have yet to make their way to theaters.

Follow the link above each category to see a longer list of the top vote-getters and a more detailed breakdown of the rankings.

Read More: Full List of Participating Critics

Best Film

1. Moonlight

2. Manchester by the Sea

3. La La Land

4. Toni Erdmann

5. Oj: Made in America

6. Paterson

7. The Handmaiden

8. Arrival

9. Hell or High Water

10. Jackie

Best Director

1. Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

2. Damien Chazelle, La La Land

3. Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann

4. Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress

1. Isabelle Huppert, Elle

2. Natalie Portman, Jackie

3. Sandra Hüller,...

South Korean agent makes sales to UK, Singapore, Thailand, Latin America and more.

South Korean sales company Finecut has sealed a raft of additional deals on Kim Jee-woon’s The Age Of Shadows [pictured], Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing and Hong Sang-soo’s Yourself And Yours.

The Age Of Shadows has been sold to the UK (Soda Pictures), Singapore (Cj E&M), Thailand (M Pictures) and Latin America (California Filmes). California Filmes also acquired The Wailing, which has also gone to Poland (Mayfly).

Yourself And Yours, which premiered in Toronto and won best director at this year’s San Sebastian film festival, has gone to France (Les Acacia), Spain (La Aventura) and Taiwan (Av-Jet).

In addition, Finecut has sold Misbehavior, directed by Kim Tae-yong and produced by Ryoo Seung-wan, to Singapore (Clover Films), Taiwan (Creative Century) and Philippines (Viva Entertainment). The film is in post-production for Korean release in spring 2017.

Finecut has also sold The World Of Us, which...

For 10 years, Five Flavours Film Festival has been presenting the best cinema from Asia, its meanings and contexts. Initially, the Festival focused solely on Vietnamese films, but it evolved to become a yearly review of the cinema of East and Southeast Asia, the only such event in the country.

The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).

This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.

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This diversity is already visible in the choice...

That's a wrap on the New York Film Festival which hosted the world premieres of 20th Century Women, The 13th, and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. But in festival season there's never any downtime. I'm off to Middleburg, Virginia tomorrow to try out a new festival. This one is just a weekend long fest with beautiful scenery -a baby Northeastern Telluride I suppose? Lion, Loving, La La Land, and Land of Mine (Denmark's Oscar submission) as well as some movies that don't begin with the letter "l" are screening. 

But meanwhile back in New York City, our hometown festival wrapped this Sunday. Here are all the reviews in case you missed any. Thanks again to Jason, Manuel, Bill, and Murtada for bringing this festival to you!

Manchester by the Sea, 20th Century Women, and Aquarius

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13th (Ava DuVernay's documentary on mass incarceration) - Glenn

20th Century Women (Mike...

Following yesterday’s announcement of more than 60 new titles, AFI Fest has named the 30-plus films in its World Cinema section. Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation,” Betrand Bonello’s “Nocturama” and Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or–winning “I, Daniel Blake” are among the more notable selections, most of them culled from Cannes, Venice and other festivals.

The weeklong event, which begins in Hollywood with the world premiere of Warren Beatty’s “Rules Don’t Apply” on November 10, also announced that Raoul Peck and Lav Diaz will present their films “I Am Not Your Negro” and “The Woman Who Left,” respectively, as part of the Masters in Conversation program.

Read More: AFI Fest Announces New Auteurs, American Independents, Midnight and Shorts Sections

“After Love” (dir. Joachim Lafosse)

“Albüm” (dir. Mehmet Can Mertoğlu)

“Boris Without Beatrice” (dir. Denis Côté)

“The Commune” (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

“Crosscurrent” (dir. Yang Chao)

“Death in Sarajevo” (dir.

The 11th annual London Korean Film Festival (Lkff) is gearing up for an impressive year with a very exciting lineup. The festival is scheduled to run from November 3-17 with a tour around the UK ending on the 27th, the longest running Lkff to date.

The schedule this year starts out strong with a screening of “The Truth Beneath” by director Lee Kyoung-Mi, followed by a Q&A lead the director herself. The theme of this year’s festival is “women in Korean cinema,” so it is more than fitting that such a strong entry will start off the event. Later in the lineup, the Lkff will also be showcasing Kyoung-Mi’s critically acclaimed film, “Crush and Blush,” which was co-produced by one of Korea’s leading director’s, Park Chan-Wook.

“The Truth Beneath” movie poster

The remaining films to be shown are just as strong: “Inside Men: The...

NEWSAndrzej WajdaJust under a month since his latest film, Afterimage, received its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Marble) has died at the age of 90.How precious two minutes of film can be! The Czech national film archives have identified a previously lost film by Georges Méliès, says The Guardian: "The two-minute silent film Match de Prestidigitation (“conjuring contest”) from 1904 was found on a reel given to the archives by an anonymous donor, labelled as another film."The digital home of films in the Criterion Collection have moved around over the years, and, as of October 19, will find a new access point as an add-on subscription to Turner's new streaming service, FilmStruck. The service launches October 19.French director F.J. Ossang has surprisingly turned to crowdfunding to finish his new feature, 9 Doigts ("9 Fingers"). Shot in black and white 35 mm,...

See enough films by any director and you’ll start to think you’ve got a grip on the whole thing. See everything they’ve directed — “everything,” here, constitutes 17 features and three shorts that are in excess of half an hour — and expected pleasures are chief among the reasons for continuing the journey. Yourself and Yours is enjoyable the way every other Hong Sang-soo film is enjoyable: funny, relatable and emotionally honest, structurally innovative, and composed with a patient eye that favors the peaks and valleys of conversation over standard get-to-the-point construction. Here, though, he wields a sharper blade: in its defiance of internal logic, character motivation, or even a conventional understanding, the film’s narrative (about doubles or twins or doppelgängers or all or none) brings contemplation of romantic relationships’ hardest edges — those gaps between men and women that no one’s quite figured out, perhaps because they’re...

Above: Us one sheet for Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, USA, 2016).The 54th New York Film Festival starts tonight, and, as I have done for the past seven years, I have collected all the posters I could find for the films in the festival’s main slate, otherwise billed as “Twenty-five of the most exciting new feature films from around the world.”I can’t attest to the films themselves yet, but the two best posters of the festival are those for Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and Ava DuVernay’s 13th. Both posters feature striking and stylized images of African American men, which is fitting for a festival that is kicking off with—in its first documentary opening night ever—DuVernay’s urgent examination into America’s mass incarceration of black men.None of the other posters are quite as exciting, though I do have a soft spot for the blatantly Photoshopped family...

Ava DuVernay’s documentary “13th” has the precision of a foolproof argument underscored by decades of frustration. The movie tracks the criminalization of African Americans from the end of the Civil War to the present day, assailing a broken prison system and other examples of institutionalized racial bias with a measured gaze. It combines the rage of Black Lives Matter and the cool intelligence of a focused dissertation. DuVernay folds many historical details into an infuriating arrangement of statistics and cogent explanations for the evolution of racial bias in the United States, folding in everything from D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” to the war on drugs. The broad scope is made palatable by the consistency of its focus, and the collective anger it represents.

Visually, the movie offers little more than the standard arrangement of talking heads, archival footage and animated visual aids, but that’s all...

For those familiar with the films of Hong Sang-soo, there’s really only one thing you need to know: The new one is pretty major, and not just because they drink beer this time instead of the usual soju. For those who haven’t yet been introduced to this singularly idiosyncratic Korean auteur, “Yourself and Yours” is as good a place to start as any.

But first, a quick primer: Hong Sang-soo movies have never been about what happens. Some of them are about what happened, some of them are about what could have happened, and — increasingly — some of them are about the difference between the two. Of course, the joke with Hong is that his movies are pretty much indistinguishable, these rueful, belligerently drunken comedies so similar that watching any two of them in succession is like doing one of those cartoon puzzles where you have to spot the...

Lineup and Pre-Festival Announcements and News

Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’

New York Film Festival Announces James Gray’s ‘The Lost City of Z’ As Closing Night Selection

New York Film Festival Announces Mike Mills’ ’20th Century Women’ As Centerpiece Selection

Nyff 2016 Adds Ang Lee’s ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ His Ambitious 4K Fast Frame Narrative Feature

Nyff Announces Retrospective Selections Inspired By Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘My Journey Through French Cinema’ – Exclusive

Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Nyff Artist Academy And Critics Academy Participants

Fslc Announces Filmmaker Talks Lineup For 54th New York Film Festival

Nyff: Film Society Announces Special Events Section and ‘An Evening With’ Kristen Stewart and Adam Driver

Nyff Announces Lineup For Immersive Storytelling Program Convergence (Exclusive)

‘Jackie’: New York Film Festival Adds Special U.S. Premiere Of Pablo Larraín’s Oscar Contender...

It’s not hard to get a sense for the big movies at this year’s edition of the New York Film Festival. Ava Duvernay’s Netflix documentary “13th” will open the festival with much fanfare over its powerful message about America’s broken justice system. Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” has many anticipating its inventive storytelling technology, and “20th Century Women” is said to be a terrific showcase for Annette Bening. Add in a number of festival favorites, from “Moonlight” to “Manchester By the Sea,” and the current edition of Nyff looks like a terrific consolidation of 2016 cinematic highlights.

But these headline-grabbing titles aren’t the whole story. A tightly-curated program assembled by a handful of discerning cinephiles, the festival offers a number of lower-profile titles that are just as worthy of your attention. Here’s a look at 10 of them.

“Aquarius”

Like so many...

Below you will find our favorite films of the 41st Toronto International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.Top Picksfernando F. Crocei.Toni Erdmann, A Quiet Passion, Elle, (re)Assignment, Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee KidsII.Voyage of Time, Moonlight, I, Daniel Blake; Austerrlitz, J: Beyond FlamencoIII.Salt and Fire, Hello Destroyer, Land of the GodsDANIEL Kasmani.As Without So Within, Certain Women, NocturamaII.Cilaos, Yourself and Yours, Incantati, Children of Lir, Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee KidsIII.Into the Inferno, Untitled, Daguerrotype, Venus Delta, Safari, The HedonistsIV.The Dreamed Path, Manchester by the Sea, 350 Mya, Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait, Kékszakállú, Foyer, The Dreamed OnesV.Ember, Salt and Fire, (re)AssignmentMICHAEL Sicinskii.SingularityII.Aquarius, AusterlitzIII.025 Red Sunset, Cilaos, Indefinite Pitch, Luna e Santur, Mimosas, Nocturama, SieranevadaBLAKE Williamsi.Nocturama, As Without So Withinii.The Dreamed Path, Yourself and Yours, Burning mountains that spew flame,...

One of the most respected South Korean directors, Hong Sang-soo (Right now, Wrong Then ), walked away with the prestigious ‘Concha de Plata’, for the Best Director at the recently concluded San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain. He was applauded for the direction of the beautiful psychological drama, ‘Dangsinjasingwa Dangsinui Geot’ (Yourself and Yours).

Alternatively known as ‘Yourself and Yours’, this acclaimed South Korean drama chronicles a jealous-ridden man’s passionate search – often bordering on insanity – for his wife whom he last saw bickering in a drunken fit with an unknown stranger. The problem is that he sees her face in that of every woman he encounters.

Kim Joo-Hyuk portrays the role of the envious husband with panache. You-Young Lee is almost perfect as the adulterous wife. Go watch this amazing movie if you haven’t done that already!

Source: AsiaOne...