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Sam Mendes to Direct Four-Film Beatles Biopic Releasing in 2027
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Like a chimera of any intelligent person’s least-favorite storytelling models, we are (in the sense of a diagnosis) finally seeing the cinematic universe intersect with musical biopics. And where to start but the very biggest? Today brings the rather momentous...
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Second Trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War Imagines a Divided Near-Future America
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
After dividing audiences with Men, Alex Garland is back with what looks to be his most ambitious directorial outing yet. Civil War, which follows a divided, near-future America and a race to the White House, stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura,...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Dahomey, My Favorite Cake, A Traveler’s Needs
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
If I have another dispatch with three films of this quality, then Berlin will have been an incredible success. Each selection here is an intimate, at moments, meditative interrogation of memory and the brutal passage of time composed through a...
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Architecton | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Judgment in Stone: Kossakovsky Gazes Into the Concrete Jungle Celebrated documentarian Viktor Kossakovsky explores our complex relationship with concrete in the abstract visual feast, Architecton. For those familiar with his previous explorations, such as 2020’s Gunda, in which we follow...
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Berlinale Review: Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara Superbly Examines Paradoxes of Intimacy
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
The films of Canadian director Kazik Radwanski are freedom in its purest form, or the purest this particular medium can contain. Being the opposite of prescriptive, they sculpt themselves according to interpersonal dynamics that can otherwise be invisible, and by...
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#478 February 20, 2024
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Matt writes: Our Editor at Large Matt Zoller Seitz recently posted a very well-received essay entitled, "Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like 'Coyote vs Acme' Should Be a Crime." You can read the article in its entirety here, and...
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A Traveler’s Needs | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
The Traveler Has Come: Huppert Shines in Latest Collaboration with Sang-soo There are few directors who seem to rightly channel the comic side of Isabelle Huppert’s unique strangeness than the perennial Hong Sang-soo. Having worked together on the lovely In...
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Interview: Claire Fowler – Toad / 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Following a filmography comprising approximately eight short films just over a decade-span, with the most recent being the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival premiere “Salam,” along with television series work, British and U.S. based filmmaker Claire Fowler embarked on a project...
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Colman Domingo Delivered the Best Performance of 2023 in Rustin, Will Receive AAFCA Award on February 21st
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Colman Domingo burst onto the screen as civil rights leader Rustin Bayard in "Rustin," and his performance was so strong that I cannot stop thinking about it.  Domingo nailed Rustin's vaguely mid-Atlantic accent, his ferocious drive and aching vulnerability. When he finds himself overcome with...
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Raíz (Through Rocks and Clouds) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
A Walk in the Clouds: Becerra Mines Escapism and Innocence in Quiet Drama A dwindling group of alpaca herders find themselves on the verge of violent displacement in Franco Garcia Becerra’s sophomore film Through the Rocks and Clouds. In essence,...
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