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"It is a movie where you have to be careful not to rush anything because the silences are important, and the time that passes is important," editor Affonso Goncalves said of the film, which he co-edited with director Chloe Zhao. "Chloe's first tendency is toward the wide shots and the masters, and we talk about when to keep some of that silence that exists in a master, not to go in but just to keep it that way, and when to stretch silences and pauses."

This year's buffet is a well-balanced one, with options for a range of dietary preferences, and a remarkably tasty one, with Oscar bait nestled against elevated versions of more standard fare. That said, it's a remarkably Caucasian quartet of new films, each one a story about white people with problems. If you're looking for differently hued protagonists, your options are blue ( Avatar: Fire and Ash) or yellow ( The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants).

For 25 years, we've been drawn to new forms of creative expression and the artists pushing those boundaries. Today's creators are among the most inventive storytellers working in any medium. Expanding Tribeca NOW honors how audiences experience stories today - on every screen, in every form. That spirit of reinvention is what Tribeca was built on.

"Resurrection," a magnificent intoxicant of a movie from the thirty-six-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan, is no ordinary love letter to cinema. It's more like a love labyrinth-a multi-tiered maze, full of secret passages, shadowy rooms, and winding staircases, with a giant movie theatre, sculpted from candle wax, waiting at the incandescent finish. It's an ecstatic, extravagant work of artifice and imagination, and, from the start, Bi and his collaborators (they include the director of photography Dong Jingsong and the production designers Liu Qiang and Tu Nan) embrace their craft with a childlike sense of wonder and play.

Ten years ago, Star Warsstill felt like magic. Some people remember where they were for the Moon landing; I remember where I was when the first teaser for The Force Awakens launched online (at an old girlfriend's house after Black Friday brunch). Every frame was scrutinized: the cross-guarded saber, X-Wings roaring planetside, BB-8's anxious roll. The plot, shrouded in another J.J. Abrams mystery, was teased in marketing and merch, where posters and action figures of Kylo Ren doubled as conduits of hype and intrigue.

After a varied career in which he has played a psychopath, a romcom heart-throb, an intergalactic warlord and a plucky newspaper editor among others, Domhnall Gleeson has won his first Hollywood award. The US-Ireland Alliance announced that Gleeson will receive the Oscar Wilde award at the event's 20th anniversary in Los Angeles in March in the run-up to the Oscars. It honours a body of work rather than a particular performance.

The Lawrence Hall of Science's planetarium is playing Traditions of the Winter Sun, a short film about Ohlone and other cultures' traditions surrounding the cosmos, from now to Feb. 27. Photo credit: Lawrence Hall of Science Learn about Ohlone and other cultural traditions for the sun, moon, planets and stars in the 30-minute planetarium show, Traditions in the Winter Sky. Show runs from now to Feb. 27 at the Lawrence Hall of Science. $5 plus admission fee

WALKER-SILVERMAN: This is a story about a wildfire only in the most basic sense. What I mean by that is that it's a story about all the things that happen afterwards to recover and reimagine and move on. And the film tells a story of a group of people who all wind up thrown together in a FEMA camp sharing very little but that they've all lost everything.

These past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting for all of us! Prepping and planning for Christmas and also watching Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery after it dropped last week-that's what I've been doing. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I've been pretty obsessed with Josh O'Connor ever since Challengers, and after watching this film, my obsession has only peaked.

But Hamnet has a distinctive atmosphere that sets it apart from many of this year's releases. That look and feel is largely due to cinematographer Łukasz Żal. Known for collaborations with Paweł Pawlikowski on Ida and Cold War, Żal has also worked with filmmakers like Charlie Kaufman and Jonathan Glazer. He approaches each shot with meticulous care, building layers into his frames so they convey emotion as much as narrative.

At 22, deeply hungover, Lindsey Lauten lingered in her apartment in Little Rock, Arkansas, weighing a decision: whether to call in sick from her job as a server. It was a Sunday morning, and for the recent college graduate, the thought of navigating the smell of burnt coffee, the clatter of plates, and the constant demands of a packed breakfast rush felt almost unbearable. Still, she pushed herself out the door, unaware that the unremarkable act of showing up would become the starting point

"It's been quite a remarkable event in my life," says linguist Paul Frommer, recalling his first encounter with James Cameron. Searching for someone to develop a constructed language for a science-fiction film, the renowned director had sent an email to the linguistics department of the University of Southern California. In his application for the job, Frommer convincingly expressed his enthusiasm for the challenge.

Ryan Coogler's bluesy vampire thriller "Sinners," the big screen musical "Wicked: For Good" and the Netflix phenomenon "KPop Demon Hunters" are all a step closer to an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released shortlists for 12 categories Tuesday, including for best song, score, international and documentary film, cinematography and this year's new prize, casting.

Someone needs to fix a pipe at Marvel, because just a couple of days after the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday leaked onto the internet, Spider-Man: Brand New Day 's is out in the wild. After a fashion-it is the most astonishingly poor quality. It's so difficult to see, in fact, that it likely would have been dismissed as a fake, had Marvel and Sony not issued copyright strikes against every upload and wiped it from the internet.