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Harlan Jacobson and guest contributors provide film reviews, festival and film industry coverage, along with interviews and which can regularly be heard on WBGO.org.

CANNES OPENER 2025

The 78th Cannes Film Festival opens next Tuesday night, the 13th, through Saturday the 24th and the awarding of the Palmes D’Or. Our film critic Harlan Jacobson will be reporting in. What are you looking forward to this year, Harlan?
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Harlan Jacobson Reports On The Oscars

The 96th Academy Awards, the Oscars, will take place next Sunday, March 10 in Hollywood, and love them, hate them, or ignore them, there never seems to be a shortage of...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports on Sundance Film Festival 2024

This year I parachuted into Sundance remotely from the greater NY-NJ metroplex to take the pulse of a festival that kicks off the acquisition year for American film companies scouting...
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Harlan Jacobson Considers the Best of 2023

Audiences have trickled back this year except for the torrent of those lined up to see big deal event films, when the mashup of Barbenheimer dominated the mediascape. Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER with...
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Harlan Jacobson reviews American Fiction and Rustin

American Fiction started under the radar at this year’s Toronto Film Festival but emerged as the festival’s People’s Choice award winner. Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious “Monk” Ellison – how’s that for...
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Harlan Jacobson on the 37th SXSW Music, Film, Interactive Media Festival

The 37th SXSW Music, Film, Interactive Media festival and trade show Conferences wrapped up this past week in Austin, Tx. That’s after plowing through 110 feature films, including some 75 world...
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Harlan Jacobson reviews Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

There’s an old maxim that you don’t go to the movies to learn history. British director Ridley Scott, who turns 86 this Nov. 30, has had a glorious career making...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports from the 2023 New York Film Festival

The New York Film Festival has in recent years expanded since the years I worked there awhile back from 20 or so films to 32 in its Main Slate and...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports from the 48th Toronto International Film Festival

The Polish veteran director Agnieszka Holland’s The Green Border plants itself in a forest where Belarus meets her native Poland, and follows a small cast of disparate people from Afghanistan, Muslim North...
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Harlan Jacobson’s 2023 Labor Day Address to the Nation

During the pre-internet days of peace and love of my hippie youth, it seemed like we had reached the end of days: social upheaval, anti-war rebellion, race riots, Richard Nixon’s...
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Harlan Jacobson Previews What’s On Deck at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival

After a decades long run at being the dominant fall film launchpad in North America, Toronto or TIFF as it’s known, has been increasingly challenged by a reinvigorated Venice, the...
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Harlan Jacobson Reviews Mission Impossible and Oppenheimer

I have checked out not just one Mission Impossible, but two, the latest Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One with Tom Cruise returning as agent Ethan Hunt in the 7th installment in the series,...
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Harlan Jacobson On the 95th Academy Awards

We’re in the final hours of Oscar chatter which began about a year ago and ends with the 95th Academy Awards this Sunday night. Oscar handicapping usually starts just after the...
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