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Final Trailer for Wong Kar-wai’s Blossoms Shanghai, Premiering Next Week
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
A decade after The Grandmaster, the wait for Wong Kar-wai’s next project has been lengthy, with his long-gestating Blossoms Shanghai first announced nearly five years ago. Now, after three years of filming, the series launches next week on China’s Tencent Video....
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Jean-Luc Godard: Reckoning with the Cinematic Corpus of a Medium-Defining Artist
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
With a title that invokes both the specific (cinema of Godard) and the universal (cinema is Godard), Cyril Leuthy’s Godard Cinema finds itself in conversation with another formulation: Everything is Cinema. Richard Brody’s 2008 study of the filmmaker, is beautifully...
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A Conversation with Wim Wenders (ANSELM & PERFECT DAYS)
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Wim Wenders, hailing from Germany, is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He has been making films for over 50 years and wrote and directed his first feature in 1971 called Summer in the City. In 1976, Wenders...
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The Family Plan
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous work that it makes perfect sense that he would get one of those flicks that blend the world of espionage with suburban family tropes a la the excellent “True...
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POOR THINGS
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out Matt Delman’s Poor Things movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The enjoyably eccentric Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has a growing body of work...
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2023 Le prix André Bazin: Pham Thiên Ân’s “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” Takes Unique Prize
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
It’s year two for the prix André Bazin by les Cahiers du Cinéma folks and the jury of Albert Serra, Marion Cotillard, Flora Fishbach, Jeanne Lapoirie, Fernando Ganzo, Olivia Cooper-Hadjian and one reader of the magazine have bestowed the honor...
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THE PROMISED LAND Trailer: Mads Mikkelsen Fights For Honor in Denmark’s Oscar Entry
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Whenever he’s not playing your usual villain in blockbusters, Mads Mikkelsen displays his impeccable wide range of acting in his native Denmark. He is just fresh off a Best Actor win at the European Film Awards for his performance in...
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The Taste of Things | Review
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous foodie procedural, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot au Feu). The film’s French language...
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HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS Trailer: Goran Stolevski Follows Up ‘Of An Age’ With a Tale of An Unlikely Queer Family
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Goran Stolevski is a filmmaker on the rise who’s had three strong features over the last few years. The Macedonian-Australian director made a splash at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival with his witchy horror You Won’t Be Alone. He followed...
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2023 Gan Film Foundation: Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux’s “La couleuvre noire” & Louise Hémon’s L’engloutie Land Coveted Prize
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
The Gan Film Foundation has been supporting first and second screenplays for more than three decades now and it’s no secret that the majority of these projects end up being selected for premiere film festivals and are often part of...
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