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Lost in Translation Gets Deluxe Double LP Vinyl Release; Marie Antoinette Documentary in the Works
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
It’s a good time to be a Sofia Coppola fan. Alongside last fall’s release of one of her finest films, Priscilla, we got an expansive book detailing her career. Now we have two new updates related to other peaks of...
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My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné continues his steady, perennial output with the humanist melodrama My New Friends. Though its English language feels a bit trite, the original French language...
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Berlinale Review: With The Empire, Bruno Dumont Delivers a Slack, Soaring Space Oddity
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Playing his signature brand of rural French absurdity in stark counterpoint to the grandiose strains of a space opera, Bruno Dumont returns with The Empire: his Barbarella bourguignon, his dijionnaise Dune. The Empire is the story of two warring factions:...
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Berlinale Review: Sleep with Your Eyes Open Vividly Captures the Migrant Condition
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Tucked deep into Don DeLillo’s Underworld is an exchange between the novel’s protagonist, Nick Shay, and one of his teachers, a Jesuit priest. It concerns language. The priest, to make a point about the boy’s abysmally poor vocabulary, taunts him...
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FilmSharks Inks Deals For OLVIDO (FORGOTTEN KILLINGS) And LOBO FEROZ at EFM
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Our friends at FilmSharks continue to bust out sales for Lobo Feroz, the Spanish language remake of Big Bad Wolves. The latest comes during EFM where they sold the UK rights to BINGO FILMS. Before  that it was sold to...
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STOPMOTION Review: Beautiful, Disturbing Journey Into Creation as Self-Destruction
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, and Tom York star in Robert Morgan's cross-genre horror movie. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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THE DEVIL’S BATH: Sales at EFM Continue For Latest From Duo Behind GOODNIGHT MOMMY
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Austria in the 18th century. Forests surround villages. Killing a baby gets a woman sentenced to death. Agnes readies for married life with her beloved. But her mind and heart grow heavy. A gloomy path alone, evil thoughts arising. [Read...
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Dying (Sterben) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Family Matters: Glasner’s Sprawling Portrait of Chaotic Dysfunction Exemplifying Tolstoy’s famous Anna Karenina quote on ‘every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,’ German filmmaker Matthias Glasner makes his first narrative feature in over a decade with the cryptically...
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THE HEROIC TRIO / EXECUTIONERS 4K Review: Hong Kong Action Symphony in Two Movements
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui and Michelle Yeoh star; Johnnie To and Ching Siu-tung direct. Now in 4K from the Criterion Collection. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Some Rain Must Fall | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Mistress of Misery: Yang Explores the Turmoil of Transformation Here comes the rain again, falling on her head like a tragedy. Or so is the somewhat gloomy sentiment of Qiu Yang’s debut Some Rain Must Fall, which finds Cai, 45-year-old...
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