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Drive-Away Dolls Review: Ethan Coen’s Eminently Likable Queer Crime Caper Aims Low and Delivers
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
The kind of movie made to stumble upon surfing cable at 2 am in a half-awake, half-intoxicated stupor, Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls aims for a lower artistic bar than anything the director (and certainly his brother) has previously approached, which...
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Drive-Away Dolls
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Coming out of “Drive-Away Dolls,” an uproarious, sexy and deliciously feminine B-movie, the immediate thing you might realize is just how dearly this particular Coen Brothers flavor has been missed. You know, that quirky, familiarly zany essence last seen in...
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EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS
by admin|4 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Every Little Thing. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) First-time filmmaker but established artist Titus Kaphar showed Exhibiting Forgiveness at Sundance this year. Kaphar also...
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Gloria! | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Music of the Heart: Vicario Pays Symphonic Homage to Erased History Composer Margherita Vicario makes her directorial debut with Gloria!, a period piece recuperating a legion of women composers and musicians whose talents were fostered through various Italian orphanages also...
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Dune: Part Two
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” is “massive.” Expect a whole lot of variations on the words “epic” and “spectacle” too. Say what you will about how they turned out,...
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Dune: Part Two Review: Denis Villeneuve Sands Down the Strangeness of Frank Herbert’s Sci-Fi Epic
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
The best bit of dialogue from any iteration of Dune was not written by Frank Herbert, but it so perfectly distilled the absurd wonder of his magnum opus that you’d be forgiven for assuming otherwise. “The sleeper has awakened” is...
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Nostalghia Cinematographer Giuseppe Lanci on Andrei Tarkovsky’s Total Control and Overseeing the New Restoration
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
In Andrei Tarkovsky’s penultimate film Nostalghia (1983), which he co-wrote with Michelangelo Antonioni’s longtime collaborator Tonino Guerra, Russian writer Andrei (Oleg Ivanovič Jankovskij) travels to Italy in order to research the life of composer Pavel Sosnovsky, along with his interpreter...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Abiding Nowhere, Pepe, No Other Land
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Throughout the Berlin International Film Festival there has been a glaring juxtaposition between the beauty within the festival and the terror happening around it. In this festival’s resplendent theaters, gorgeous movie houses that I briefly outlined in a prior dispatch,...
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CHALLENGERS New Trailer: Zendaya Stirs Up Love & Competition in Luca Guadagnino’s Latest
by admin|4 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Zendaya is a master of tennis pulling all the strings in Luca Guadagnino’s steamy new film, Challengers. Originally slated for release last fall, as well as a Venice premiere, it was delayed due to the actors’ strike but it’s now...
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Exclusive Trailer for The Tuba Thieves Opens Up New Ways to Listen
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
One of the most singular viewing (and listening) experiences of the year, the documentary The Tuba Thieves explores what it means to listen and how sound––particularly the absence of it––figures into everyday life. A fascinating counterpart to a fellow recent...
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