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Cinemascope

Watchlist This! (November 2023).

A roundup of the month’s best new under-the-radar releases. This edition includes a BDSM sub’s daily life, a spurned sexologist, a delicious Frederick Wiseman doc and a look into the life of Albert Brooks.

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Man With a Van.

With DOC NYC upon us, award-winning In the Rearview filmmaker Maciek Hamela describes how he made the interior of a van cinematic to document his volunteer efforts transporting Ukrainian refugees out of war zones. 

Gemma Gracewood
Festival Circuit

Best of the Fall Film Festivals 2023.

Our festival correspondents have brought back a little something for everyone this year: the music of Maestro, high-octane Hindi-language action, “squelchy” stop-motion and so much more in their twenty best.

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Interview

Consent to Party.

Un Certain Regard winner and soccer-mad striker Molly Manning Walker talks about crafting the perfect rave scene, blowing up the filmmaking hierarchy and the blurry lines of consent in How to Have Sex.

Gemma Gracewood
Interview

Jennifer Connelly Gets Lost.

Gemma Gracewood dives into the unknown with Jennifer Connelly, who plays an unhinged actress seeking enlightenment from Ben Whishaw and forgiveness from Alice Englert in the darkly comedic Bad Behaviour.  

Gemma Gracewood
Interview

Lovers’ Layover.

Rom-com royalty Meg Ryan and sci-fi heartthrob David Duchovny whip out dance moves, celebrate the muscularity of Nora Ephron’s favorite genre, and subvert tropes in What Happens Later. 

Gemma Gracewood
Cinemascope

Watchlist This! (October 2023).

A round-up of the best of the month’s new releases that are sitting just under the radar. This edition includes a barf-bag-worthy horror, Kishi Bashi’s empathetic song film, a daring escape from North Korea, and a lost dog.

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Interview

A Cure for Darkness.

With Together 99, Lukas Moodysson needed to know if the communal dream could still be alive. Gemma Gracewood meets the director at TIFF to talk about the politics of dishes, the dark euphoria of The Cure and whether there might ever be a sequel to We Are the Best!

Gemma Gracewood
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The Devil and David Farrier.

Gemma Gracewood chats to documentary-maker David Farrier about crying on the phone to his producers, how to deal with an audience laughing at your distress—and what a year away from Mister Organ has done for his psyche.

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Cinemascope

Talking Heads, Big Smiles.

At the IMAX world premiere of A24’s glorious Stop Making Sense restoration, Gemma Gracewood and Ella Kemp talk to Talking Heads about creating connections, having fun and spider-dancing. 

Gemma Gracewood
Festival Circuit

Toronto Tip-Sheet.

Gemma Gracewood reports from a TIFF missing most of its A-listers, but putting its best independent foot forward in the interim, with cheers of solidarity from Jessica Chastain, Bowen Yang, Devery Jacobs and more. 

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Festival Circuit

2023 Fall Fest Preview.

Letterboxd correspondents sift through the prestige pictures (Michael Mann!) and indie gems (Kitty Green!) coming to the Venice, Toronto, London and New York Film Festivals to present our most-anticipated of the upcoming festival season.

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