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By Hook or By Crook

This newly restored, San Francisco–set trans and butch buddy movie is a fresh, invigorating jolt and an intimate glimpse of marginalized, yet commanding, characters from a bygone era.

Aloïse

A biopic about Aloïse Corbaz, a self-taught Swiss artist who belonged to the outsider art movement, starring Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig.

Reunion

Rarely seen since the early 1990s, this haunting memory piece, written by Harold Pinter and directed by Jerry Schatzberg, returns to the screen.

Being Bo Widerberg

An excellent primer for those unfamiliar with the Swedish filmmaker.

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague won’t start any cinematic revolution, but it will defend the idea that making movies (and watching them) is an inspiring collective effort.

Angel’s Egg, Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars, Sholay | NYFF 2025

The Revivals section included the blueprint of the genre-blending masala movie presented in the original director’s cut, once censored and unseen for decades.

Megadoc

For those who either loved Megalopolis or simply love cinema, this is an alluring up-close-and-personal documentary about its creation.

Riefenstahl

Andres Veiel’s unsettling and persuasive documentary uncovers filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s distortions of the truth.

Rosa la Rose, Fille Publique

In a Paris-set, candy-colored—though melancholic—portrait, a young sex worker finds herself at a crossroads.