The Spread
Madeline OstdickMonthly curated streaming programs.
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64th New York Film Festival Dispatch # 2
In Allen Fong’s Just Like Weather (1986), recently restored, a young working class couple from Hong Kong decide to move to the United States to try and make a better life for themselves, only to discover, as Lana Del Rey said, “It turns out...
64th New York Film Festival Dispatch #1
Turning to whisper to my neighbor “That’s the man I love,” while watching The Man I Love (2026) at the 64th New York Film Festival!
Welcome readers to another year of chaotic updates from 65th Street. Each fall, as the air crisps up to per...
September Streaming
Topless revue dancer Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon) is the shimmering star sitting atop of America’s Playground (Las Vegas) in Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls (1995).
Welcome to September streaming, accessible, as always, here.
Over Labor Day...
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and Loving the Girl at the End of the Knife
Comedian Hannah Einbinder plays a queer filmmaker who, as part of her attempt to revitalize a fictional horror franchise, acquaints herself with the reclusive star (Gillian Anderson) of the first film in the series in Teenage Sex and Death...
July / August Streaming
The Atlantic City boardwalk, captured through the reflection of a casino window in an era of heavy construction, serves as a backdrop to cult musical Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), about a fictional early 1960s rock-n-roll group from the Je...
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Freelance film critic programming monthly virtual streaming programs. Alumni, Film at Lincoln Center Critics Academy.
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