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Lily and Generoso spent an epic amount of 2025 in front of a screen, and here they review their ten favorite features, seven supplemental films, and one outstanding repertory release seen at microcinemas, archives, and festivals throughout the year.
For the eleventh straight year, Lily and Generoso absorbed all that is AFI Fest 2025, the American Film Institute’s five-day festival, and they’re back to review their eight favorite features from the large slate of films they viewed this time around!
With just a few days before his appearance at AFI Fest 2025, Lily and Generoso interview director, editor, and co-founder of the El Pampero Cine collective, Alejo Moguillansky, to discuss his virtuosic new feature, Pin de Fartie, which draws inspiration from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.
With her most ambitious feature to date, director Sofia Bohdanowicz continues her examination of history and memory through the character of Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) as she researches the legacy of acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.
Alexander Horwath’s stunning debut is a 185-minute video essay that examines the course of American social and political attitudes over multiple eras through the biography of the legendary actor, Henry Fonda.
World premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival is A Bright Future (Un Futuro Brillante), the second feature from Sundance Award–Winning Director Lucía Garibaldi. Lily and Generoso review this bold dystopian tale.
After decades of creating award-winning documentary films, director Roberto Minervini has released his first fiction feature, The Damned, an ethereal Civil War piece that garnered Minervini the Best Director prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Lily and Generoso wrap an outstanding year at the cinema, with capsule reviews of ten favorite films, eight supplemental features, and one outstanding repertory release seen at microcinemas, archives, and festivals in 2024.
Lily and Generoso review director Hernán Rosselli’s second hybrid-fiction crime film that artfully explores our perceived notions of family.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.
