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#woody-allen-homage

Amanda tells Kyle, 'We don't have a prenup. If you come for me, I'll come for you.' Kyle responds, 'That would be a losing battle,' to which Amanda retorts, 'Are you threatening me?'

April O'Neil comes down out of City Hall as the ace reporter and then walks into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. That secret, that the Downtown Brooklyn station is subbing in for City Hall, is at the heart of an upcoming film series at BAM.

I knew he was a legendary director and he was giving me a list of his movies like Raging Bull, Taxi Driver. Then he was like, 'You probably can't watch any of those quite yet, but there is this one movie I directed called Hugo.' A couple days later, in the mail, I received a copy of Hugo on Blu-ray from his office, which is really crazy.

"Cinematic Immunity" offers a workers'-eye view of Hollywood on the Hudson, revealing the intricate dynamics of filmmaking in New York City from 1954 to 9/11.

The production signals its interest in recreating 1970s New York at the outset of the Watergate era, but the accumulation of references feels less like texture than indulgence.

Soderbergh has become such a prolific, tirelessly resourceful, and altogether uncategorizable filmmaker that you have to wonder why the mechanics of the break-in still inspire him.

Beyond all of this, I do believe mathematics is a new form of art. It is loaded with meaning. It's not just an aesthetic or a form of abstract painting. It's loaded with poetry.

Stuart Cinema and Café made history in 2018 when it became New York's first Black Latina-owned movie theater, establishing itself in the Greenpoint neighborhood as both a creative hub and community gathering space. Founded by producer and entrepreneur Emelyn Stuart, the 50-seat venue was born out of her frustration with the barriers facing independent filmmakers-from distributor gatekeeping to outdated screening facilities and inattentive staff.

Coppola stated, 'It was scary at first for me to take on the challenge of making a documentary. It was different because there was no script, so I didn't have a map of where we were going.'

Love Story was based on Elizabeth Beller's book Once Upon a Time, which was helpful, but in a lot of ways Black Rabbit was more 'real' than Love Story because it was entirely fictional. I come from a research background so there's always a lot of research involved, whether it's photographs or books.

Set mainly in rural Burkina Faso, the director's homeland, the movie was made in the amateur format of 16-mm film, with a low budget, a small crew, and a largely nonprofessional cast, including several of the filmmaker's family members, as befits its family-centered drama: a young woman named Bintou and a young man named Issa want to marry, but another man, Tiga, aggressively pursues Bintou and threatens Issa's life.

Eyes Wide Shut was stranger than that: a meditative art film whose much-hyped orgy scene is more creepy than sexy, run by a cabal of rich and powerful men who prey on young women.

The centerpiece is Empire for Two, a date night that gives one lucky couple private access to the building's interactive exhibits and Observation Decks. The experience culminates in an intimate dinner for two on the 102nd Floor, complete with a specially decorated setting, a professional musician, vintage Dom Pérignon and a three-course chef's tasting menu by STATE Grill and Bar, paired with wines selected by the building's sommelier.

The Film Forum ranked third on the list with the outlet calling the theater "New York's premiere independent, nonprofit cinema." The Film Forum has been open for half a century and has four screens showcasing a mix of American indie premieres, foreign art films, genre works, directors' retrospectives and special programming.

The newly discovered moving image work—totaling over an hour in length—includes eight new Screen Test portraits of Warhol collaborators and unused footage shot for his films Batman Dracula, Sleep, and Couch. The most significant find is several rolls of pornographic footage that shed new light on Warhol's ambitions in the 1960s. They prove that the artist had been capturing explicit scenes on the couch of his famous Factory studio long before making Blue Movie, the salacious 1969 feature that would inspire a "porno chic" phenomenon.

The Sundance Film Festival concludes its 2026 edition this weekend, marking its final year in its iconic home of Park City, Utah, before moving on to its new host city in Boulder, Colorado next year. As we continue to look back at the hefty legacy of queer films that premiered there over the years, this week we'll revisit a landmark lesbian drama that put a beloved '80s icon back in the spotlight, and kickstarted the career of one of the most representative filmmakers of the New Queer Cinema wave.

He's a ubiquitous face, showing up regularly in all sorts of supporting parts (big ones as well as glorified cameos), but he so rarely gets the chance to carry a feature. In The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which world premiered at Sundance and is now playing at the Berlin Film Festival, he does exactly that, holding our attention with those sad, watchful eyes and his lanky determination.

"My reaction has always been the same," Allen told Variety in an interview published this week. "The situation has been investigated by ... two major investigative bodies. And both, after long detailed investigations, concluded there was no merit to these charges. ... The fact that it lingers on always makes me think that maybe people like the idea that it lingers on. You know, maybe there's something appealing to people."