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September 1, 2026
“Days and Nights in the Forest” Emerges from the Shadows
This passionate melodrama by Satyajit Ray, about four middle-class men on a heedless spree in a rural village, is a teeming panorama of social divisions and inequities.
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August 28, 2026
Kacey Musgraves, Crossover Queen
Also: John David Washington plays a tech bro in “Disruption,” Samara Joy and Christian McBride perform at Central Park, Jacob Elordi’s stars in Ridley Scott’s latest movie, and more.
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August 26, 2026
Shirley Clarke Lived Her Art to the Fullest
A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously inventive activity away from public view.
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August 19, 2026
“Dreams in Nightmares” Turns the Art Life Political
Struggles for personal and creative freedom fuel Shatara Michelle Ford’s second feature, about three women’s search for a friend gone missing.
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August 14, 2026
What to Do in New York City This Fall
Culture preview: what’s coming this season in TV, movies, art, theatre, dance, and music.
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August 11, 2026
Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film?
A young auto racer brings speed and passion to small-town life in an unsung American auteur’s latest work.
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August 7, 2026
The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose
Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more.
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August 5, 2026
What Makes an Adaptation Good?
The kerfuffle over Christopher Nolan’s fidelity to Homer’s Odyssey reflects major questions in the history of cinema.
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July 31, 2026
Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play
Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more.
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July 31, 2026
In “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” Desire and Terror Meet
Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, which follows a celebrated young filmmaker tapped to reboot an old horror franchise, is a cinematic manifesto that examines how art can inspire both love and fear.
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July 24, 2026
Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island
Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and friends drop in on Brooklyn, and more.
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July 23, 2026
“Lost Chapters” Weaves Literary Mysteries Into Family Bonds
The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado’s first feature, starring her own relatives in a fictional drama, connects a young woman’s homecoming and her artistic ambitions.
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July 17, 2026
Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art
Also: Tori Amos with Bartees Strange, the French dancer Hugo Marchand, a play about the House Un-American Activities Committee, and more.
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July 15, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Leaves the Gods in the Outtakes
The director’s Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on its own terms.
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July 10, 2026
“Remake,” Reviewed: The Film Confronts a Father’s Grief and a Filmmaker’s Responsibility
The documentarian Ross McElwee’s new feature is an anguished reflection on the life and death of his son, Adrian, who was a frequent subject of his films.
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July 10, 2026
Mark Morris’s Summer Season
Also: France in Westchester at Caramoor, a taut “Henry VI,” Djo’s pop-rock spark, and more.
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July 9, 2026
Éric Rohmer’s Novel “Élisabeth” Is a Precocious Literary Triumph
Before he had any interest in movies, Rohmer was a writer, and his 1946 début is a fine-grained vision of small-town lives in prewar France.
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June 27, 2026
“Couture,” Reviewed: Angelina Jolie Faces Trouble with Style
The new melodrama, starring Jolie as a movie director, treats the Paris fashion world as a backdrop for medical and domestic crises.
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June 26, 2026
The Artistry of Tarot
Also: the modern reggae of Original Koffee, Tina Fey’s modern take on “The Four Seasons,” Hugh Jackman’s gory Robin Hood, and more.
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June 21, 2026
A Lonely Adolescent Summer, Set to “Bad Moon Rising”
To an eleven-year-old in a Long Island suburb, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 hit sounded like it came from somewhere distant, deep, and haunted.
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June 19, 2026
The Dance Legend Lucinda Childs’s “Momentary Reprise”
Also: the images of Yves Saint Laurent, “Girl, Interrupted” reviewed, the fusionist wonderland of Tortoise, and more.
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June 16, 2026
In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Steps Out from Behind the Curtain
This tale of aliens on Earth and the coverup of their presence, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is a catalogue of the director’s obsessions, and a deeply personal vision.
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June 12, 2026
A Wondrous Array of Boundary Pushers at SummerStage
Also: Lucy Sante’s poignant humor, American Ballet Theatre’s summer season, the incisive melodrama of Satyajit Ray, and more.
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June 12, 2026
“Mudville,” Reviewed: An Atlanta Filmmaker’s Expansive D.I.Y. Family Drama
Adam Pinney made his new movie for an estimated five hundred dollars, and cast his own wife and kids.
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June 5, 2026
“The Little Sister,” Reviewed: an Intellectual Yet Passionate Coming-Out Drama
Nadia Melliti, in her début role, offers a quietly spectacular performance as a French teen-ager who struggles with her forbidden attraction to women.
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June 5, 2026
Cowboy Heaven, in MOMA’s Westerns Series
Also: the third-wave emo of Jimmy Eat World, Jean Genet’s “The Maids” TikTokified, Rachel Syme’s shoe of the summer, and more.
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