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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.
Jurassic World: Rebirth is the seventh in the franchise that began in 1993 when book and screenplay author Michael Crichton, a native of Roslyn, Long Island, had just turned 50. Harlan also talks about the opening for Kill the Jockey.
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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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Harlan Jacobson reports from the 76th Cannes Film Festival

The most anticipated film this year at the 76th Cannes Film Festival was Killers of the Flower Moon directed by one of just about every cinema lover’s modern heroes, Martin Scorsese, adapted...
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Affleck and Damon’s SXSW hit, AIR, swishes the net

AIR had its premiere at SXSW, where I recently reported on the beefed-up selection of films. The new Ben Affleck directed film, in which he stars with his Boston buddy Matt...
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Harlan Jacobson On Sundance 2023

It’s Sundance film festival time, and this year’s edition, which closes this weekend by announcing winners in both feature and documentary competitions in the US and internationally, showed better than...
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Will Smith: Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner?

The 94th Academy Awards, which concluded last Sunday night, confounded just about everyone who watched it—whether they were in the elite crowd inside the Academy’s return to the Dolby Theatre or...
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Harlan Jacobson Reviews The Fabelmans, Empire of Light and Armageddon Time

Festival is misleading or even a misnomer. The important A-list fests are really conventions, a cross between sales conventions to introduce the new line — in the garment industry parlance...
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Harlan Jacobson Reviews Automat featuring Mel Brooks

Lisa Hurwitz’ The AUTOMAT, which came out of the Telluride Film Festival and opens this week at the Film Forum in Manhattan, is a seductive dive back through time into...
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