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Revelations and Reservations at the 2025 New York Film Festival

Blame it on Mommy and Daddy

October 10, 2025 • by Mitchell Abidor
It’s almost as if the selection committee for the recently ended sixty-third New York Film Festival (NYFF) was acknowledging that giants no longer walk the cinematic earth when it chose to screen Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague and Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly. Both directors are among the most important of American ...
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Cinelogue Is Decolonizing the Film Canon

A conversation with the director of a new streaming platform dedicated to global majority filmmakers

December 19, 2023 • by Rehana Esmail and Kate Millar
Cinelogue hosts a library of films that have been carefully selected by international filmmakers and curators from diverse regional foci....

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