On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark honors fringe cinema in the streaming age with midnight movies from any moment in film history. First, the BAIT: a weird genre pick, and why we’re exploring its specific niche right now. Then, …
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We’re now in the thick of the fall movie season, but you wouldn’t know it from how skimpy the box office is, or how muted the chatter. Simply put: Where …
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If you’ve tried your hand at networking or been to a film-focused event, you’ve probably gotten that age-old question eventually. “What do you do?” In the past, I’ve hemmed and …
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Freaked Alex Winter and Tom Stern’s 1993 cult classic Freaked is less an example of “high” and “low” art commingling than of pop- and-sub-cultures colliding. At the precipice of marquee …
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Robert Pattinson is starring in various tentpoles, which include Dune: Part Three, and filming in the desert proved to be a unique experience for the actor. In a new interview, the Batman …
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Mixed messages are the new normal. Last week saw the Sundance Institute form a union and thousands of layoffs at Paramount and YouTube. It also brought two events that point …
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Before Chloe Zhao and Kore-eda Hirokazu sat down for their Tokyo International Film Festival conversation, they had each been crying over the other’s work. Kore-eda watched Zhao’s “Hamnet” in a …
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We open with a woman and a man running on the beach gleefully toward the ocean, taking off every article of clothing. She dives into the ocean and wades there …
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The White House Effect Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk’s The White House Effect is an intriguing all-archival trip back in time to the precise moment in US politics …
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It’s the first time since 2014 that Halloween has fell on a Friday in what is expected to be horrific for the weekend box office. For the most part, the …