Photo by: Jen May Pastores – Cast members and team of New Zealand TV series TANGATA PAI (GOOD PEOPLE) attending HIFF’s inaugural HIFILM Industry Conference, October 26, 2025 HIFF45, Shot on Film: A Photo Essay Last fall (2025), rolls of film were dedicated to documenting the people, places, and moments that brought the 45th Hawai‘i
Tribeca: Rachel Rose’s directorial debut puts a modern spin on Virginia Woolf’s classic novel, centering on two women who navigate motherhood in different — and sometimes eerily similar — ways.
By Lucy Spicer One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. While we can learn a lot about the filmmakers from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival through the art that these storytellers share with us, there’s always more we can […]
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Alex Billington at First Showing.net posted that Cannes competition choice Hope will be released in the U.S. on Sept. 9th which means it's a film that could play TFF #53...but it's cutting it very tight. TFF will conclude on Monday, Sept. 7th. The film made a minor splash at Cannes and ended that fest with a 6.15 rating on the Cannes-ratins.org website.
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It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Françoise Foucault, a key figure in the Bilan du film ethnographique, which became the Jean Rouch International Festival in 2008. For years, right up until 2010, as the Bilan du film ethnographique followed immediately after Cinéma du réel in March, Françoise would pay …
John Williams’ latest concert work ‘Bravo Gustavo!’ received its World Premiere last night, under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel and the leading trumpet of Thomas Hooten. The fanfare, a tribute to Dudamel and the musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was…
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Film Producer and Longtime New Hampshire Resident Amy Greene to Receive the Van McLeod Award New Hampshire Film Festival (NHFF) is excited to announce that passes for the 24th annual […]
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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (David Wain, 2026) 3 out of 5 stars An immensely silly film that deserves full kudos for effort, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is both beneficiary and victim of its almost overwhelming zest for fun. Starring Zoey Deutch (Nouvelle Vague) in the title role and a […]
The ICO team share some of their Cannes Film Festival ones to watch, including new work from Clio Barnard, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Cristian Mungiu. Check back for further announcements of UK distributors and release dates. Contents: Club Kid (dir. Jordan Firstman)Fjord (dir. Cristian Mungiu)I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (dir. Clio Barnard)Fatherland (dir. Paweł Pawlikowski)The […]
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The first time I saw William Friedkin’s 1980 gay crime thriller “Cruising” may have been decades ago, but I will never forget how surprised I was that a movie like that was made in the 1970s. “Cruising” stars Al Pacino as a straight New York City police officer who goes undercover in the gay leather […]