#film-recommendations

#film-recommendations

Both Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner are tales of artificial humans seeking more from their makers: Victor Frankenstein's creature has a lifetime, but no one with whom to share it; Tyrell's replicants have each other, but are running out of precious time. In both cases, the ones being hunted display perhaps the most humanity.

Back to selectionWith the 63rd edition of the New York Film Festival kicking off tomorrow (Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt is the Opening Night Film), we at Filmmaker offer a list of 20 recommendations, the majority films we've seen and reviewed out of other festivals, a list augmented with a couple of strongly anticipated titles. Find below recommendations from Vadim Rizov, Blake Williams, Natalia Keogan, Leonardo Goi, Vikram Murthi, Nicolas Rapold and Sofia Bohdanowicz, with links to their coverage. For more information and tickets, visit the NYFF site.

"If you missed the big 50th-anniversary party for Jaws, it's not too late to celebrate Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic. This film captures a Beach town's Fourth of July terror against a shark."

If you were rightfully disappointed by last year's Emilia Pérez, I'd like to point you toward Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-snagging '99 melodrama, which follows the stories of a trans sex worker, a grieving mother, and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

The question every film fan asks is, 'What should I watch next?' To avoid decision paralysis, I keep ongoing film projects, exploring directors or significant cinema eras.

With the semicentennial of Jaws upon us, we've compiled our definitive ranking of summer blockbusters that followed in its wake.