NYFF 2026: Jordan Firstman’s Queer-Positive ‘Club Kid’ Is One Of The Year’s Best, Most Stirring Films
Three years ago, I had a fun zoom chat with Jordan Firstman about his role in Sebastián Silva's wacky, meta-cine-mindfuck, ...
Three years ago, I had a fun zoom chat with Jordan Firstman about his role in Sebastián Silva's wacky, meta-cine-mindfuck, ...
Introducing her absorbing feature debut, La Gradiva, at this year’s New York Film Festival, cinematographer-turned-writer/director Marine Atlan quoted the great ...
Set in London in the late 1980s, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, David Turpin’s somber, stunning feature debut, ...
Brazilian filmmakers Victor Di Marco & Márcio Picoli's debut feature London sets out to showcase that “disabled bodies are the ...
Set in Mexico near the U.S. border, Gabriel Gutierrez Morales’s debut feature Tijuana, Todavia (Still, Tijuana), centers on two lonely, ...
Another incredibly (and lamentably) timely film is Theo Rollason’s wholly enveloping documentary, Queer Edward II, which is impressively culled together ...
Celebrated and Tony-nominated stage actor James Cusati-Moyer, in his first leading role in a feature film, makes quite the impressive ...
Brit playwright John Donnelly’s The Pass is a brutal and devastating look at internalized homophobia and the fake life that ...
Kasper Kalle’s dark and striking debut feature, No Rest for the Wicked, is based on a little-known short story, Manor, ...
Maurice – 4K-UHD/Blu-ray – Kino Lorber James Ivory’s Maurice is a milestone in gay cinema and rightly considered one of ...
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