Well, would you look at the date? It’s the first of December, which means we’re going to start looking back on all the great stuff 2016 has brought to us at the movies. And like the considerate film lovers we are, it’s a process we’re kicking off in gentle, colorful style by running down the best in movie posters.

Since we’re not limited to films that have already opened, just to posters that have appeared since January, there are a couple of teasers for films not yet playing included below.

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On this latest episode of Adjust Your Tracking, my co-host, Joe von Appen, and myself bring down the shades, look through our telescopes and stare endlessly at the lurid, surreal and dreamy filmic universe of Brian De Palma. Of course, this is in honor of the theatrical release for “De Palma,” the new documentary by the filmmaker’s friends and colleagues Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow that features the titular director dishing out one fascinating and deeply entertaining anecdote after another on a whirlwind tour through all his filmography.

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While none of the sequels this weekend saw as dire a drop off as “Alice Through The Looking Glass” when compared to their originals, Hollywood still hasn’t escaped this year’s growing concern with lackluster follow-ups, while their franchise problem continues to persist (at least domestically). Basically, studios don’t make sequels for them to earn the same as or less than their predecessors, and this weekend’s results for two major follow-ups won’t have executives pouring out the champagne.

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The upcoming documentary “De Palma” is putting a renewed spotlight back on the work and career of Brian De Palma, which is certainly great for fans and newcomers who want to dive into his back catalog. But just as exciting, the release of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow‘s film has seen the always quotable director step up to do some interviews too, and as per usual, they are worth diving into.

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One of the many touchpoints mentioned in the course of “De Palma,” the new film from Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, is Jean-Luc Godard‘s “Weekend,” but if they’d gone for the embellishment of a subtitle in the name of their interview-based doc, it could very well have been “Brian De Palma: Breathless.” Because it is both literally and metaphorically so, a whistle-stop guided tour of De Palma’s filmography in which the legendary director talks non-stop, with one anecdote jump-cut against the next so fast that often the breaths in between sentences are snipped out.

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One of the greatest treats of the summer movie season this year for any serious cinephile is “De Palma,” the documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival last year to rave reviews, it was picked up by A24, giving it a far greater spotlight than most cinema-on-cinema docs, and it will hit theaters this Friday.

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As folks dust off their air conditioners for another hot summer, The Playlist and moviegoers alike are preparing for another kind of scorching hot intensity, the Hollywood hype machine. While we’re busy critiquing the films and analyzing the box office, we hope you good folks are able to enjoy some good nights out at the movies. But as ever, there’s an unwieldy minefield of choices that reach into and well beyond your local multiplex. Take a wrong step, and you may just end up hitting a bomb.

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Obviously the biggest event of the summer is The Playlist moving to the shiny new digs in which you’re now seeing us. But seriously, the summer movie months are packed with films both big and small guaranteed to thrill, delight and provoke you, and keep you out of the sunshine, and inside basking in air-conditioned comfort.

The time when big movies were released only in summer has long gone — this year has seen “Deadpool,” “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice,” and “The Jungle Book” among those that were smashing box office records while the temperatures were still low and the days still short.

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How do you meet a legendary director like Brian De Palma and become his pal? As Noah Baumbach explains, you go to this birthday party. “I got loaded and hit on Brian, talking about his movies. I remember Brian at one point saying to me [incredulously] ‘Get To Know Your Rabbit‘?!’ — I mean, I was really overdoing it, trying to get my bonafides out there,” he told us last fall.

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The 30 Most Anticipated Films From 2016 We've Already Seen

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Venice Review: Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow's Documentary 'De Palma'

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