Nick Newman

3 days ago | thefilmstage.com | Nick Newman

In a city where the rents are too high, the subways are too slow, and morale barely hovers above cope, repertory options might make such troubles worthwhile. So one thinks while looking over Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us, a career-spanning, 35mm-rich, two-cinema retrospective that began last weekend at Japan Society and will continue at Metrograph.

4 days ago | thetimes.com | Nick Newman

6 days ago | thefilmstage.com | Nick Newman

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageJohnnie To’s The Heroic Trio and To & Ching Siu-tung’s Executioners play in See It Big: Stunts!; John Waters’ Serial Mom screens on Friday and Sunday; Amir Azizi’s Two Dogs shows on Saturday. Japan SocietyA massive Mikio Naruse retrospective, featuring numerous imported 35mm prints, has begun.

1 week ago | thefilmstage.com | Nick Newman

Shakespeare adaptations are not the surest commercial prospect; asking audiences to show for a contemporary riff on one of the Bard’s lesser-known plays is another demand entirely. Nevertheless, it’s a shame how little attention was granted Michael Almereyda’s Cymbeline when it premiered in 2014 and released the next year.

1 week ago | thefilmstage.com | Nick Newman

Caught by the Tides is that much-sought, almost-never-fulfilled encounter with something one can’t be 100% certain is real. Audacious in concept (assembling a new narrative from footage shot for previous features) and with an execution to match, at its best the film suggests some kind of landmark; being a longtime admirer of Jia Zhangke and the films he’s revisited makes it no easier to process.