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New Trailer for Love Lies Bleeding Highlights the Lesbian Bodybuilding Neo-Noir of the Year
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One of the most purely entertaining viewing experiences at Sundance Film Festival this year was Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding, which is quite a level up in terms of ideas from her debut Saint Maud. Starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena...
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Sundance 2024 Review: A DIFFERENT MAN, Idea-Rich Genre Mash-Up Stumbles, Falls, Dissatisfies
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In Aaron Schimberg’s (Chained for Life, Go Down South) latest film, A Different Man, Edward (Sebastian Stan), a man euphemistically described as “facially different,” finds himself unmoored from the life he once had and rejected and the life he thought...
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Rotterdam Review: Toshihiko Tanaka’s Rei is an Ambitious Directorial Debut That Draws from Hamaguchi
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It was more than eight years ago that the virtually unknown Ryusuke Hamaguchi premiered Happy Hour, a five-hour narrative masterclass about four thirty-something women coming to terms with their own lives and relationship to one another. Against all odds, Hamaguchi...
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Ennio Review: A Simplistic Overview of a Towering Career
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“A director can’t understand the final result from a description. You cannot describe music; it needs to be listened to.” So says Ennio Morricone in one of many talking-head sections that comprise Giuseppe Tornatore’s documentary. But Ennio, as it’s aptly...
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The Monk and the Gun Review: Bhutan’s Oscar Entry is a Too-Gentle, Offbeat Crime Caper Meets Political Dramedy
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There is very little written in the English language about the cinema of Bhutan, with only the broadest overviews of this still-emerging industry to be found at a glance. Not producing its first feature until the 1990s––and not producing one...
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Mia Wasikowska Wants to Purify Your Body in First Trailer for Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero
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Across her five previous features, Austrian director Jessica Hausner (Amour Fou, Lourdes, Little Joe) has developed a distinctly unique tone and now she’s back with her sixth outing, Club Zero. Led by Mia Wasikowska, the dark satire follows a nutrition...
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LA CHIMERA Trailer: Josh O’Connor Searches For Love & Treasure in Alice Rohrwacher’s Mystical Drama
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Josh O’Connor is on a surreal quest in Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. The otherworldly drama had its world premiere at last year’s Cannes, as well as screened at TIFF and NYFF. In her fourth feature after 2018’s Happy As Lazzaro,...
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Hit the Road in New Trailer for Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls
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The solo (narrative) directorial debut from Ethan Coen. A cast including Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Pedro Pascal, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, and Matt Damon. Cinematography by Ari Wegner. A logline best simplified as a lesbian roadtrip crime drama....
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FRIDA
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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Frida. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) experienced great physical suffering during her time on Earth, the result...
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Interview: Tran Anh Hung – The Taste of Things
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In the Cannes Best Director-winning, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) the passage of time is measured in teaspoons, tablespoons and table manners. Three decades after his playful exploration of the senses in The Scent of Green Papaya, Tran...
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