Sharon Van Etten’s Remind Me Tomorrow comes four years after Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present. Throughout Remind Me Tomorrow, Van Etten veers towards the driving, dark glimmer moods that have illuminated the edges of her music and pursues them full force, delivering an ambitious album that provokes our most sensitive impulses: reckless affections, spirited nurturing, and tender courage. (Jagjaguwar)

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Winner of four major prizes at Cannes Film Festival 2018 and nominated for a Golden Globe, Belgian director Lucas Dhont’s debut feature Girl is a stunning exploration of identity and society. It follows Lara, a fifteen-year-old girl born in a boy’s body, as she prepares for gender reassignment while striving to become a professional ballerina. (Netflix)

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Director Barry Jenkins follows up his multi-Oscar-winning film Moonlight (2016) with If Beale Street Could Talk, based on the 1974 novel of the same name by American writer James Baldwin. A richly layered and atmospheric work set in 1970s Harlem, the film follows wife-to-be Tish as she desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime he did not commit, while carrying their first child. (Annapurna Pictures)

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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 75th Venice Film Festival, The Favourite is a lavish, hilarious period drama film from acclaimed director by Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster (2015), The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017)). With brilliant performances from Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman (who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at Venice) the story focuses on the behind-the-scenes politics of the royal court during the reign of Queen Anne in the early 18th century. While England is at war with the French, the frail Queen’s closest friend and a new, extremely ambitious servant battle it out to be court favourites. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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During his twenty-year stint as a photographer for the National Geographic Society, 300 of Nathan Benn’s photographs were published in National Geographic magazine and numerous books. His 2013 award-winning book, Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990, was published by Powerhouse Books and praised by The Wall St Journal as “timeless and particular.” Benn’s follow up,  A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs, shows the photographer’s home state at the dawn of the 1980s, a time when Florida’s only true constant was change. Benn’s vibrant, idiosyncratic images reflect the charming—and sometimes dangerous— chaos of Florida at the time, a place that came to embody both the quintessence of suburban Americana and the depth of the melting pot, and the source of Benn’s own nostalgic longing. (PowerHouse Books)

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Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, Green Book documents the true story of a working-class Italian-American bouncer who becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is racking up major award nominations, earning five for the 2019 Golden Globes. (Universal)

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Now That I Am Gone: A Memoir Beyond Recall takes morbid self-reflection to a strangely moving new level. The purported “posthumous memoir” details an everyman’s existence as it goes on without him: his wife, his friends, his dogs—they all navigate to fill in the empty spaces he has left behind, and old rivals swoop in to claim his spoils. The result is mordantly funny, bleakly beautiful, and warmer than you’d think.

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Based on the short story “Barn Burning” by Haruki Murakami, this tense mystery-thriller won the FIPRESCI prize for best director (South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong) at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and is South Korea’s official Academy Award entry for Best Foreign Language Film. An acute observation of human paranoia, the film centres around Jong-su, a part-time worker, who rekindles a relationship with an old friend just before a mysterious—and dangerous— stranger enters their world. (Well Go)

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