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Poland’s troubled history cast a long shadow over the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, though many of its standout works demonstrated a more universal apprehension about the future. shorturl.at/rO5ak

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 20h

Isabelle Stever’s I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING is marked by a granular attention to everyday life in a time of upheaval. The film has its North American premiere at #NYFF64. shorturl.at/5Tea0

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 21h

Part sacrificial love story, part lighthearted allegory about consumerism and media manipulation, Frank Oz’s LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a movie musical big in both heart and biting critique. Now available on 4K UHD. shorturl.at/VNr1y

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 21h

Paul Thomas Anderson’s CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL captures a young musician and a storied venue that seem made for each other. Read Taylor Williams's #NYFF64 review. shorturl.at/GcpNo

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 06/10/2026

Pedro Almodóvar’s BITTER CHRISTMAS, which has its U.S. premiere today at #NYFF64, commits a strange act of creative trespass. shorturl.at/0MGAr

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 06/10/2026

Dennis Hopper’s THE HOT SPOT, now available on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Radiance, is an absorbingly overheated slice of neo-noir that’s aided immensely by strong performances, a salty script, and Hopper’s painterly eye. shorturl.at/pnGVw

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 05/10/2026

Lisandro Alonso’s sequel to La Libertad, DOUBLE FREEDOME, suggests that not much has changed for Argentine woodcutter Misael Saavedra in the intervening quarter century. The film has its U.S. premiere today at #NYFF64. shorturl.at/LuH0U

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 05/10/2026

Valeska Grisebach’s THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, writes @jakecole.bsky.social, makes resonant meaning from a patchwork of longueurs and digressions with no interest in bringing forth a concrete resolution. The film has its U.S. premiere tonight at #NYFF64. shorturl.at/HMUX7

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 04/10/2026

In its montage, Arie and Chuko Esiri’s CLARISSA fascinating reimagining of Mrs. Dalloway captures the rhythms of the stream of consciousness for which Virginia Woolf is celebrated. #NYF64 shorturl.at/dQfyP

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 04/10/2026

Of course, a Shane Black script helmed by Tony Scott as he was just entering his prime is first and foremost a work of popcorn entertainment, writes @jakecole.bsky.social. THE LAST BOY SCOUT is available on 10/13 on Arrow 4K UHD Blu-ray. shorturl.at/rJASn

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 04/10/2026

Paweł Pawlikowski’s FATHERLAND distinguishes itself from Ida and Cold War with a bitter humor. The film has its New York premiere today at #NYFF64. shorturl.at/ibXVf

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 03/10/2026

Jordan Firstman’s feature directorial debut, CLUB KID, finds fresh life in a familiar story of arrested adolescence. The film has its New York premiere tonight at #NYFF64. Read @tylekurner.bsky.social's review. bit.ly/4ANVJFv

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 03/10/2026

The beast in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s blistering MINOTAUR is a nation that demands human sacrifice to feed its delusions of grandeur. The film has its New York premiere today at #NYFF64. bit.ly/4htgZsv

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 03/10/2026

BEHEMOTH! is suitably symphonic in construction, a mature pleasure whose faith in its audience, and in the craft it celebrates, is a rarity in American cinema. #NYFF64 bit.ly/47xsY2o

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 02/10/2026

FORBIDDEN PLANET, one of the most intellectually ambitious examples of 1950s-era science fiction, is now available on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Arrow Video. bit.ly/4yycBP2

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

The elemental bleakness of Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Evil Does Not Exist shifts to a more cosmic benevolence in the moving ALL OF A SUDDEN. Read Keith Uhlich's #NYFF64 review. bit.ly/4AB2jiu

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

Carlos Reygadas’s mesmerizing HEIL JUPITER! tosses viewers into a series of briny tempests without a life preserver. Read Keith Uhlich's #NYFF64 review. bit.ly/3TD5nKh

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

A pinnacle of film noir, OUT OF THE PAST uses its stark narrative and aesthetic to suggest vastness through insinuation and omission. Now available on 4K UHD Blu-ray from @WarnerArchive. bit.ly/3Tsk03b

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 30/09/2026

Jonathan Glazer's documentary short JOY OF JOYS feels one conspicuous brand logo away from becoming a commercial. Read Eli Friedberg's #NYFF64 review. bit.ly/4xSCBDy

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 30/09/2026

The sincerity with which Werner Herzog regards two twin sisters’ stubborn hopefulness in the face of a selfish and uncaring world gives BUCKING FASTARD a lasting emotional power. #NYFF64 bit.ly/46Uf5et

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 29/09/2026

Sandra Wollner’s shape-shifting wonder EVERYTIME, writes @marshallshaffer.bsky.social, is most perceptive when conveying the strange nature of grieving in the digital age. The film has its U.S. premiere today at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/mrx8tmye

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 29/09/2026

William and David Greaves’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM is a living, breathing time capsule that feels like a miracle. The film has its New York premiere today at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/k7bv5zzh

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 28/09/2026

In Angela Schanelec’s MY WIFE CRIES, writes Zach Lewis, the bizarre and mundane walk hand in hand. The film has its U.S. premiere today at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/bdfpbdux

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 28/09/2026

As the title of his newest feature indicates, the idea of caregiving is still at the front of Mike Leigh’s mind. TENDER LOVING CARE has its New York premiere today at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/y72hy2h7

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 27/09/2026

Andrew Haigh pulls off a balancing act of delicate precision across his almost unbearably wistful A LONG WINTER. The film has its New York premiere today at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/2yaj8cwe

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 26/09/2026

It’s no exaggeration to say that Julia Loktev’s MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE has the charge of an espionage thriller. The film has its North American premiere tomorrow at #NYFF64 tinyurl.com/mrvbkxyk

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 25/09/2026

See the 4K restoration of Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS, an audaciously blunt, fever-dream portrait of religious-inspired sexual hysteria. in all its uncut and uncensored glory at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/mtec5zbt

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 25/09/2026

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA is an overwhelming and vital work of investigative journalism, writes Eli Friedberg. The film has its North American premiere tomorrow at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/s3mamxk6

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 25/09/2026

Across his delightful shaggy-dog comedy EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE, Nicolás Pereda delights in taking the piss out of his male characters, and by extension the audience. The film has its U.S. premiere tomorrow at #NYFF64 tinyurl.com/556hp59v

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 25/09/2026

Alive to the melancholy of passing time, Hong Sang-soo’s NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES finds truths in the mundane aspects of life, writes @jakecole.bsky.social. The film has its North American premiere tomorrow at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/wctz57dd

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 25/09/2026

Freudians will have a field day with Markus Schleinzer’s 17th-century-set third feature ROSE, starring Sandra Hüller. See it at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/bdbenuw2

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 25/09/2026

The mundane and the extraordinary, writes @justinofclark.bsky.social, dance hand in hand across Louis Clichy’s sublime coming-of-age cartoon IRON BOY. See it at #NYFF64. tinyurl.com/2mddd4up

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 24/09/2026

James Gray’s astonishingly directed PAPER TIGER, a slow-burn family tragedy in which ephemeral comforts run aground on reality, kicks off this year’s New York Film Festival tomorrow. Read Keith Uhlich’s review. tinyurl.com/33nevpj7

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

18 days. 113 films. This year’s New York Film Festival lineup is so invitingly rich that you’ll actually want to see everything. tinyurl.com/4hzcefby

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 11/09/2026

If Federico Fellini’s Satyricon treats the ancient Romans as ultimately unknowable beings inhabiting the alien planet of antiquity, Marine Atlan’s LA GRADIVA finds in them a familiar pathos. #TIFF26 tinyurl.com/2s4ryrva

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 11/09/2026

Satyajit Ray’s barbed but nonjudgmental drama DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST comes to Criterion with a sparkling transfer. The 4K UHD Blu-ray release is available on 9/29. tinyurl.com/56hr9r9v

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 09/09/2026

Across THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD, director Sam Green slyly, movingly confronts us with our mortality. The film opens tomorrow at the Angelika Film Center. tinyurl.com/4nhpz26t

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 09/09/2026

Criterion’s 4K UHD Blu-ray set THREE FILMS BY LEOS CARAX, available on 9/29, is an appropriately luxe celebration of Carax’s first three features, which rank among the most exhilarating French films of the 1980s and early ’90s. tinyurl.com/5dmvzes4

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 09/09/2026

NOUVELLE VAGUE, Richard Linklater’s paean to the spirit and spontaneity of Godard and the French New Wave, is outfitted with a sparkling transfer and an impressive slate of extras. Available from Criterion on 9/22. tinyurl.com/4ymbvejx

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 08/09/2026

“I would say religious themes and subjects are an important influence in my work, particularly in this film.” Read our conversation with Na Hong-jin about HOPE, toying with genre, and what he has planned for future films in the series. tinyurl.com/yktbbz3w

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 07/09/2026

Eighteen years on from its debut, METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS remains an utterly idiosyncratic and awe-inspiring chimera of a game. tinyurl.com/5djem9pw

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 06/09/2026

Sidney Lumet’s classic has never looked better than it does on Criterion's 4K UHD Blu-ray (available Tuesday), and while the extras here aren’t new, they remain satisfyingly intellectual and entertaining. tinyurl.com/mmh8dw7n

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 03/09/2026

Criterion’s special edition Blu-ray of Claude Lanzmann’s landmark SHOAH complements a wealth of archival extras with the inclusion of Guillaume Ribot’s powerful 2025 documentary All I Had Was Nothingness. Available on 9/15. bit.ly/4gBrUQr

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 02/09/2026

Watching it now, Barbara Kopple’s AMERICAN DREAM, writes @ephender.bsky.social, plays less like history than prophecy, one that Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, and seemingly everyone after it, was only too happy to fulfill. Now available on Criterion Blu-ray. bit.ly/4x1i0fN

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 02/09/2026

Guy Maddin’s delirious third feature, CAREFUL, a parody of German mountain films of the 1920s and ’30s, receives a gorgeous new transfer and generous heaping of extras from Kino Lorber. Available on Blu-ray on 9/22. bit.ly/4yckb1a

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 02/09/2026

Criterion Collection’s 4K UHD Blu-ray release of THE SECRET AGENT, boasting a stellar presentation of a new 4K digital master and loads of extras, canonizes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Oscar-nominated feature as a new classic. Available on 9/22. bit.ly/464Vd81

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 02/09/2026

For anyone who’s ever wished that a Fukasaku Kinji yakuza film were more nihilistic and violent, Nakajima Sadao’s AESTHETICS OF A BULLET is here to oblige. Now available on Radiance Blu-ray limited edition (standard edition out next month). bit.ly/4x6cNUd

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 01/09/2026

This battle between the preservation and obfuscation of historical truth is at the heart of CHRONOVISOR, the extraordinary debut film by American writer-director duo Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. bit.ly/4cokVYG

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 31/08/2026

In less than a minute, Frantisek Vlacil’s MARKETA LAZAROVA announces itself as something unique, perhaps indefinable. See the new 4K restoration at Lincoln Center starting this Friday. bit.ly/4gGIaOK

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 31/08/2026

Read our interview with Adam Wingard about Onslaught, his fascination with the military industrial complex, conspiracy theories, and more. bit.ly/4xyMSWi

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