One of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from […]
A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she’s telling the story, Tachibana and […]
New 4K Restoration A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it’s a […]
Once upon a time in postwar Italy . . . Vittorio De Sica’s follow-up to his international triumph Bicycle Thieves is an enchanting neorealist fairy tale in which he combined his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form […]
The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake, NYFF51), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has […]
The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South are blended and simmered into a rich and fragrant fusion feast in Mira Nair’s luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, […]
After Sound of Metal, Riz Ahmed delivers his second creative tour de force of 2020 with Mogul Mowgli, a film which he both co-wrote and starred in. Zed (Academy Award® nominated Riz Ahmed), an Anglo-Pakistani rapper, lives in New York City. One day, luck smiled on him, and here he was ready to go on […]
After All the Streets Are Silent, Cinéma Moderne delves yet again into the underground of New York culture with Moments Like This Never Last, a fascinating new documentary focusing on the urban art scene and on the life and career of Dash Snow. A notorious figure of New York’s post 9/11 underground, Dash Snow ignited […]
Special screenings – 10th anniversary A widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive 15-year-old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their impetuous and unpredictable ménage, the new girl across the street, Kyla, benevolently offers needed support. Together, they find a new sense of […]
Minato, a young boy, is displaying increasingly worrying behaviour both at school and at home. His mother, Saori, decides to discuss it with the teaching staff at his school. It soon becomes apparent that his teacher, Hori, is the source of all the problems. But as the mystery unfolds, the truth turns out to be […]