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CLEARMIND Review: Taking an Axe to Therapy
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Nora (Rebecca Creskoff) is going through a rough patch. Still reeling from the loss of her young daughter and the breakup of her marriage, she’s trying out a new form of therapy to cope. Said therapy involves the annual tradition...
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2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards: Sam Green’s 32 Sounds Lands Best Picture – Oscar Nom Next?
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Sam Green‘s 32 Sounds took the top honor of Best Feature at the 2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Will this acknowledgement help raise the film’s profile for next week’s Oscar voting? The doc which premiered at the 2022 edition of...
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INSHALLAH A BOY Review: A Situation To Crack Under
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Last year, the Cannes Film Festival crowds screened its first ever Jordanian film, and simultaneously, the debut of director Amjad Al Rasheed. Inshallah A Boy is about the hypocrisy of vultures in times of grief, the societal constraints of a...
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Song Kang-Ho Attempts to Make His Masterpiece in U.S. Trailer for Kim Jee-woon’s Cobweb
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Premiering in competition at Cannes Film Festival last year, Kim Jee-woon reunited with long-time collaborator Song Kang-Ho for Cobweb. Capturing the star as a filmmaker frantically trying to finish the movie he believes will be his masterpiece, the film was...
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2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows: Dozen Projects & 16 Participants for the Class of ’24
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Sixteen fellows with a dozen projects (out of 3,400 submissions) will be headed to the mythic bunk beds and cabin life of Utah just prior to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. Here their words on paper will be tested, tried...
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DRIVING MADELEINE (Une belle course) Review: A Life Less Ordinary
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Despite the somewhat misleading English title (the original name can be roughly translated as “a lovely ride”), Driving Madeleine by a French director Christian Carion, is not exactly what it seems and has some surprises stored. Carion, who is mostly...
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NYC Weekend Watch: To Save and Project, Michael Mann, James Baldwin & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtThe year’s great series “To Save and Project” begins its 2024 edition with a slate that includes films by Varda and Warhol. Roxy CinemaMichael Mann’s Blackhat and...
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2024 Awards Season Kickoff: Palm Springs, Variety Honorees, Golden Globes, Governors Awards
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With awards being given at the Golden Globes this past Sunday, and at the Palm Springs International Film Festival ("PSIFF") and Variety’s 10 Directors To Watch, just days before, the awards season is officially open! Voting for Oscar nominations kicked off yesterday,...
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Friday One Sheet: BUSHMAN 1971
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In the twilight of the 1960s, America was frothing with political unrests, assassinations, and racial tension. David Schickele's hangin' out movie cum documentary slash film essay from 1971, Bushman, gets a 4K restoration, and a handsome, grainy black and white poster....
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New Trailer for 4K Restoration of David Schickele’s Widely Unseen Bushman
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What’s the border between ‘unseen’ and ‘underseen’? As a canister of images and a time capsule of the eyes that saw them get into the can, David Schickele’s Bushman (1971) exists on this spectrum of availability—mostly underseen in its time,...
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