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The 7-Hour Version of Abel Gance’s Napoleon, a Restoration 16 Years in the Making, Will Premiere This Summer
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
One of the long-awaited crown jewels of silent cinemas will be seen in its full glory soon. For nearly two decades work has been underway to restore Abel Gance’s 1927 epic Napoleon to as close as possible to its “Apollo...
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CONSTELLATION Review: Beyond Space and Time
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Noomi Rapace, Jonathan Banks, and James D'Arcy star in a psychological sci-fi thriller, created and written by Peter Harness, debuting globally on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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FREE TIME Trailer: Colin Burgess Tries To Find Meaning In The Modern World
by admin|4 months ago|Hammer to Nail
One of the most promising American indies of the year, writer-director Ryan Martin Brown’s comedy Free Time explores the delusions of young freedom through the eyes of a man pushing 30 (played by comedian Colin Burgess). It also features an ensemble...
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The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Agnes of God: Franz & Fiala’s Bleak Portrait of Women & Madness “A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” wrote Ray Bradbury in one of his stories from Long After Midnight (1976), as succinct a...
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Matt and Mara | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and a marriage in stasis lies at the heart of Kazik Radwanski’s beautifully messy Matt and...
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Interview: Francesca Canepa & Miguel Ángel Papalini / La Otra Orilla – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Prior to embarking on the writing journey for La Otra Orilla, a project supported by the CNC folks, Peruvian filmmaker Francesca Canepa premiered her short film “El silencio del río” at the Berlinale. This short film intertwined mythology and dreamscape...
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Movies Starring Real-Life Fathers and Daughters, Ranked
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Ewan McGregor’s new film is personal for him. The story of a father and daughter on a road trip, “Bleeding Love” examines these characters’ frayed relationship as they try to heal old wounds. But while the drama isn’t strictly autobiographical,...
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Kiss the Future
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
There is a singular image that beautifully sums up the theme of Nenad Cicin-Sain’s “Kiss the Future” as well as the siege in Sarajevo itself. I have seen this image many times: as a CD cover, a poster, a heavily...
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I Used to Hate The Phantom Menace, but I Didn’t Know How Good I Had It
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
We’re coming up on the 25th anniversary of the release of “The Phantom Menace,” the biggest disappointment of my moviegoing life.  I didn’t know how good I had it back then.  Let me explain. I wasn’t expecting an intellectually stimulating...
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The End is Near for David Krumholtz in First Trailer for Bob Byington’s Lousy Carter
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
If you haven’t been following him on Twitter, David Krumholtz has been one of the very few reasons to stay up to date on the happenings of that godforsaken site, sharing gloriously told tales of his time in Hollywood. The...
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