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The Woodstock ’99 music festival may have been an unmitigated disaster, but that town and that year brought us something far more lasting: The Woodstock Film Festival.

Fast-forward to 2024, and we’re celebrating the film fest’s 25th year. Among the slate’s highlights this fall is Paul Schrader’s latest film “Oh, Canada,” which will screen on Saturday, October 19. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Schrader, who will be further celebrated with the Honorary Maverick Award.

The 2024 festival will take place from October 15-20 at venues across the Hudson Valley towns of Woodstock, Rosendale, Kingston, and Saugerties. The centerpiece selection is Steve McQueen’s “Blitz,” with Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” closing the festival.

“On this 25th anniversary of the film festival, and at this pivotal time in our nation and the world, I’m thrilled to welcome the many talented filmmakers who will be arriving...

Raves can be a special experience. Whether dancing in a dark warehouse, neon-lit club or a huge field somewhere in the middle of nowhere, getting shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of fellow revelers to the neverending thump of massive speakers brings people together, and sometimes even changes lives. Since the invention of mixed records in the 80s, rave culture has inspired the youth, titillated outsiders and entrenched itself as a countercultural movement that, in some spaces and times, has grown to a macroculture that bleeds into mainstream artistic mediums like film.

With that popularity and the spectacle inherent to the movement came raves in movies movies, almost immediately, and with electronic music only growing every decade around the world, there are now hundreds of films that include raves. Sometimes a moment of fun in a movie about something else, sometimes the entire focus of a film, raves and DJ sets abound in movies,...

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at several music videos from Yellow Claw, directed by Jim Taihuttu. Jim Taihuttu is a Dutch director whose new film Hardcore Never Dies is a breakout hit in Dutch cinemas, and is becoming a festival staple. The film is set in the nineties during the heyday of Gabber culture, a quintessentially Dutch style of beat heavy Electronic music that got famous worldwide. It won't be the last time we will feature Dutch Gabber Culture in this series, as several internationally famous Dutch directors rose to fame with gabber visuals. Taihuttu's first few films were semi-serious drama films, sometimes with a crime edge....

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