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The Berlinale Film Festival has unveiled the jury members for its main International Competition, which will be presided over by Kristin Stewart. They comprise Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani, German director Valeska Grisebach, Romanian director Radu Jude, US casting director and producer…

Matt Bolish, who has been a staff member of Film at Lincoln Center since 2011, has been promoted to the newly created position of managing director of the New York Film Festival. In his new post, Bolish will team with artistic director Dennis Lim, who oversees programming and curation, to produce the…

Dennis Lim, the artistic director of the New York Film Festival, has a confession. “I hate 'back to normal' as a phrase and as a concept,” he said with a chuckle. For the festival, however, the 60th edition kicking off tonight with White Noise “does feel kind of close to the experience we know. We’re at…

At first glance, it seems more idyllic than angsty on the island of Nantucket, a tony dollop of sand and clapboard houses 30 miles off the Massachusetts coast. Tourists have returned in force to the cobblestone streets, passing shops and restaurants nestled in the center of a centuries-old town square. Summer is here…

The New York Film Festival will close with Parallel Mothers, the Pedro Almodóvar-directed melodrama that is slated to open next month’s Venice Film Festival. Closing Night in New York will be October 8. After an online and virtual edition in 2020 due to Covid-19, the fest is returning to its Lincoln Center base with…

With some preemptive help from jury president Spike Lee, the Cannes Film Festival has announced director Julia Ducournau’s provocative Titane as the winner of the 2021 Palme d’Or. To see photos of every Palme d’Or winning film, click here or on the image above. The festival first gave out its highest honor in 1939…

Two decades in, the mission of the Tribeca Film Festival has come full circle. Launched just months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the newly rechristened Tribeca Festival kicks off its 20th edition Wednesday with New York City and the film world navigating extreme existential challenges. Normally held in…

With the green shoots of spring — and mass vaccinations — bringing continued drops in Covid-19 cases, events and venues sidelined for the past year are cultivating comeback plans. Below is a running list of theme parks and movie theaters that are reopening, movies rescheduled, and awards shows, film festivals and…

José F. Rodriguez and Karen McMullen have joined the Tribeca Film Festival programming team led by fest director and VP of programming Cara Cusumano as the New York event plans its 20th edition. Rodriguez spent a decade at the festival’s not-for-profit sibling, the Tribeca Film Institute. As director of documentary…

Organizers of the New York Film Festival, whose 58th edition faced a welter of complications due to COVID-19, said attendance across virtual and drive-in screenings rose more than 9% over 2019 levels. With drive-in theaters set up in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens and state health restrictions idling the Film at…

EXCLUSIVE: As film festivals postpone and cancel across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, independent films have taken a hit — but Seed&Spark has stepped into action to help by launching a platform specifically built for online festivals. Some high-profile actors and filmmakers have already signed on to…

Lore in my wife’s family says that her mother, a beautiful Jewish immigrant fleeing grief in the Ukraine about a century ago, ran into someone named Carl Laemmle on a ship crossing the Atlantic. As the story goes, Laemmle asked her to check in with his still-young Universal film company, as she might have a future in…