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The 10th Old School Kung Fu Fest is back April 21-30, 2023 with the biggest retrospective of Taiwanese wuxia (sword fighting hero) movies ever seen in New York City. Wuxia movies have a long history in Chinese cinema, but when King Hu’s Dragon Inn  premiered in 1967, it kicked off a wuxia revival that reinvented action movies. […]

The Worst Ones captures a film within in film, following the production of a feature whose director uses local kids as his cast. Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, director Gabrielle, played by Johan Heldenbergh, aims to capture gritty authenticity as he hand-picks and casts four working class teenagers from the local […]

Short film Getaway explores what can happen to a family dynamic when escaping their everyday circumstances. Struggling with civil unrest in the United States, a Jamaican immigrant takes her young son on his first trip to her homeland. As they adjust to a quieter life away from the daily threat of gun violence, mother and […]

James Carson was a child prodigy born with perfect pitch and a gift for the piano. At age 16 he was labeled by the Edmonton Journal as “one of the most gifted rising stars” in music, going on to attend the New England Conservatory. And then, he walked away from it all. And went walkabout, […]

All photos by Chris Chase for Classic Couple Academy.

All photos by Chris Chase for Classic Couple Academy.

Classic Couple Academy Recommends Raymond & RayGala PresentationDirector: Rodrigo García Two brothers share a name and a road trip to their estranged father’s funeral. Reunited to carry out their father’s last wishes to dig his grave, they dig deep into their past traumas and uncover the history of the man they both hate. Resentments, secrets, […]

Classic Couple Academy Recommends CanaryShort Cuts Programme 05Director: PH Dallaire & Ben Therriault A touching animated short about a boy and a canary who forge a friendship while working in a Canadian turn-of-the-century coal mine. Contrasting childhood and adulthood, play with toil, and joy with sadness, Canary touches on universal themes in a story relatable […]

The documentary film Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova provides an intimate look into the life and singing career of Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha. Miúcha recorded songs with the greatest bossa nova performers of the late 1950s and early 1960s— her voice giving life to the Brazilian music genre combining jazz and […]

Classic Couple Academy Recommends The Good NurseSpecial PresentationDirector: Tobias Lindholm Single mother Amy (Jessica Chastain) is an ICU nurse struggling to keep her life on track while dealing with her own health issues. A new nurse arrives on her shift Charles Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) and the two begin a strong friendship as Amy trusts him […]