This Life of Mine, Visiting Hours, Winter in Sokcho | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2025
It wouldn't be a French film festival without Isabelle Huppert, and she arrives this year in Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours.
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The Empire
A half-baked and only fitfully amusing parody of Star Wars and Dune, of all things.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The kind of movie that Hollywood studios used to make in its sleep, an old-fashioned, grand-scale costume epic.
Bona
Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka’s restored 1980 drama is a blunt study of the effects of abuse.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
About one of the most important photographers many have never heard of.
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
The boisterous Italian-American Balsano family gathers for what may be their final Christmas Eve dinner in the suburban ancestral home.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
When, during the Cold War, the U.S. State Department recruited jazz luminaries as de facto ambassadors for democracy.
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Filmmaker Mark Cousins provides a master class in focusing on thematic strands in Hitchcock’s imposing body of work.
Daytime Revolution
Erik Nelson’s engaging new documentary recounts when John Lennon and Yoko Ono cohosted The Mike Douglas Show.