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New York Film Festival 2024: Preview and Thoughts on “The Brutalist,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” | Festivals & Awards

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For Gotham cinephiles, the New York Film Festival has its annual launch on the last Friday of September (the 2024 edition runs Sept. 27-Oct. 13). For critics, journalists and certain industry folks, though, the event begins a couple of weeks earlier, when festival press screenings commence at Lincoln Center. Those screenings don’t display films in … Read more

Cannes 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, The Most Precious of Cargoes | Festivals & Awards

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Payal Kapadia was one of the most exciting names announced for this year’s competition. Her debut feature, “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” which screened in Directors’ Fortnight three years ago, was a distinctive, politically charged hybrid film that melded documentary and archival footage with a fictitious voice-over to reflect on student protests and casteism in … Read more