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BLUE VELVET Criterion Review: David Lynch’s Classic Arrives on 4K

Criterion has prepared a new 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray edition of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. Let’s take a look!

Tribeca Film Festival 2024: THE DEVIL'S BATH
Tribeca Film Festival 2024: THE DEVIL’S BATH

Ultimately, though the package may feel familiar, The Devil’s Bath still has cogent ideas to share.

Tribeca Film Festival 2024: CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND
Tribeca Film Festival 2024: CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND

From Tribeca Film Festival 2024, Soham Gadre takes a look at CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND!

Tribeca Film Festival 2024: VULCANIZADORA
Tribeca Film Festival 2024: VULCANIZADORA

The overall effect is an icky jumble, at once anesthetizing and agitating, languorous and frenetic, a cinematic case of acid reflux.

WILDCAT: The Hawkes Bring The Prickly Southern Writer To The Screen With Tender Loving Care
WILDCAT: The Hawkes Bring The Prickly Southern Writer To The Screen With Tender Loving Care

Wildcat becomes a lens through which to see beauty and empathize with one of our great American writers – and what a gift it is.

BANEL & ADAMA: Duty And Desire
BANEL & ADAMA: Duty And Desire

A powerful and poetic debut feature, Banel & Adama signifies Sy as an exciting young artist to watch in world cinema.

ART COLLEGE 1994: An Anti-Nostalgic Trip Back To College
ART COLLEGE 1994: An Anti-Nostalgic Trip Back To College

Liu Jian’s Art College 1994 rejects these clichés and instincts, instead seeing youth in the face of art for what it is: blowing a lot of hot air.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT & WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT & WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS

From Cannes Film Festival Wilson Kwong reviews Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prix winning All We Imagine as Light and Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND

From Cannes Film Festival, Wilson Kwong reviews
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle and Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: GHOST TRAIL & BLACK DOG
Cannes Film Festival 2024: GHOST TRAIL & BLACK DOG

Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail and Guan Hu’s Black Dog both tackle serious subject matter with subdued restraint.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS

It’s truly difficult to qualify the beast of an experience that is Megalopolis, and because of that, there’s an undefinable elegance.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE SECOND ACT & ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE SECOND ACT & ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

At Canne’s 2024, Film Inquiry reviews Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act (Le Deuxieme Acte), and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

I SAW THE TV GLOW: We're All Going To The Pink Opaque
I SAW THE TV GLOW: We’re All Going To The Pink Opaque

With I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun stakes their claim as the preeminent chronicler of those specific horrors inherent in coming of age as a millennial.

LIMBO: Out In The Open With Nowhere To Turn
LIMBO: Out In The Open With Nowhere To Turn

Limbo is a fish-out-of-water tale in a barren Outback town.

AMAR SINGH CHAMKILA: A Spiced Venture Of The Formulaic Music Biopics
AMAR SINGH CHAMKILA: A Spiced Venture Of The Formulaic Music Biopics

Imtiaz Ali’s Amar Singh Chamkila takes us through the life of one of the most loved and hated singers in Punjab, Amar Singh Chamkila.