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One of the first Black writers in television, Robert L. Goodwin scripted episodes of Bonanza, Love, American Style, All in the Family, and more. His sole directorial effort came in 1971 with Black Chariot, which follows a young South Central Los Angeles drifter who becomes involved with a Black militant organization and is forced to confro...

Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole has occupied a large-enough place in cinephilia these last 25 years that it’s sort of baffling to realize the film is just now getting an official stateside run. For this alone, Big World Pictures deserves credit; our thanks are issued twofold for doing so on a new 35mm print. The Hole inhabits so many forms—apocalyptic dread, rom...

Excavating her past in deeply moving ways, Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón has completed her family trilogy with Romería, following her debut Summer 1993 and Golden Bear winner Alcarràs. When a teenager visits the Atlantic coast of Spain to meet her paternal grandparents, she begins piecing together the mysteries of her past.

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A standout at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where director Andrius Blaževičius picked up Best Director in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, How to Divorce During the War has been picked up by Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films for a U.S. release. Ahead of a theatrical run beginning August 21, the first trailer and poster have now arrived.

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Locarno coverage. The film opens on June 24.

Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the excitement for that which doesn’t exist. That’s a good way of thinking about the cinema of Ben Rivers. Perched at th...