4 months ago

Friday One Sheet: SEAGRASS
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A Japanese-Canadian woman grapples with the death of her mother as she brings her family to a remote British Colombian island in Meredith Hama-Brown's Seagrass. This distressed, lonely key art, with its almost letterhead typography and design at the top makes...
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DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS Review: Dykes on the Run
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
There are times when a movie both needs to be un-serious, and needs to hit its target of cultural critique. There are times that call for some indie b-movie wit and raunchiness, a story that finds its charm in odd...
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Berlinale Review: Direct Action Offers a Rousing, Immersive Study of Communal Living
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
There’s a stretch of land in northwestern France that’s spent the past six decades fighting prospects of total annihilation. Plans to build a new international airport began to hover above Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a rural commune a few miles from Nantes, as...
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Exclusive Trailer for Kamila Andini’s Yuni Introduces an Indonesian Coming-of-Age Tale
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
One of our favorite undistributed films of 2021 now has a home. Film Movement, who released Kamila Andini’s 2022 festival premiere Before, Now & Then in theaters last summer, has picked up the Indonesian director’s prior feature, the coming-of-age tale...
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The Internet Will Never Let Russell Crowe Forget Les Miserables
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Director Tom Hooper had just won an Oscar for “The King’s Speech” and now he had his sights set on an even more technically ambitious undertaking, a big-screen, live-singing version of the beloved musical war horse “Les Misérables.” Casting Broadway...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Honoree Martin Scorsese Honors Powell and Pressburger
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
(Pictured: Portraits of Martin Scorsese at the Berlinale Palast. As filmmakers and cast members enter the theater for screenings, they autograph the photos—a process that the audience inside watches on the big screen.) Keeping up with Martin Scorsese at the...
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The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
We’re thrilled to launch a new feature on The Film Stage highlighting our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restorations receiving a proper theatrical run. While we already provide extensive monthly new-release recommendations and weekly...
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About Dry Grasses
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Everybody lies. Whether with malice, for self-preservation, or to spare another’s heart, fabrications lubricate or erode social interactions. But it’s in the liminal space between the idea of absolute certainty — an unattainable utopia — and the most outlandish of...
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Seagrass
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
“Do you need a reason to be unhappy,” asks Carol (Sarah Gadon) in Meredith Hama-Brown’s effective character study “Seagrass,” the story of how grief often begets other repressed emotions and possibly even tragedies. There’s something fascinating in that question in...
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Ordinary Angels
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Just because we know where a movie is going does not mean we don’t enjoy getting there. That’s especially true when it has a solid script and a two-time Oscar-winner in a role with three key elements beloved by audiences:...
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