4 months ago

Berlinale Faces Crisis as No Other Land Director Receives Death Threats and Berlin Mayor Threatens Artists
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Reviewing No Other Land out of Berlinale, Rory O’Connor described the “disorienting and dispiriting landscape” into which it was premiering. Quite an understatement to say the city of Berlin and its major-market festival fumbled through any response to the ongoing...
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Horizon: An American Saga Trailer: The First Two Parts of Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Arrive This Summer
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis isn’t this year’s only epic around which a director has staked much of their finances to fulfill. After owning television screens for the past few years, Kevin Costner is making his major return to the big...
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Interview: Christian Moldes / Quince Kings – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Wrapping up our conversations with fellows from the 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, we met with a filmmaker who promptly reminded us that there is no singular path from point A to … the day a feature gets its first clapperboard...
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Skull and Bones Sinks Under Weight of Its Own Ambition
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Ubisoft’s “Skull and Bones” finally set sail this month after years of production woes and release delays. The game began development over a decade ago, initially starting life as an expansion of the company’s critically and commercial successful “Assassin’s Creed...
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Article 20
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
A broken system validates itself in “Article 20,” a Chinese New Year legal thriller that also happens to be a domestic farce and, oh yeah, the latest movie directed by mainland hitmaker Zhang Yimou. Only a filmmaker as hawkish, conflicted,...
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Sound And Vision: Autumn de Wilde
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at The Decemberists' Once In My Life, directed by Autumn de Wilde. Autumn de Wilde made a big impression...
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Berlinale Review: Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-Winning Dahomey Is a Fulminating Story of Restitution and Liberation
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
In 1953, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet produced Statues Also Die, one of the fiercest and most lucid indictments of white imperialism ever captured on film. Commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine, it sought to dissect Western attitudes...
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Streaming Ads Are So Much Worse Than Traditional Ad Breaks
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
I have Spectrum Wi-Fi and cable service at home, and it offers “free” on-demand movies, so I called one of them up recently: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.” Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen this 14-year-old...
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Shogun
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
With the current abysmal streaming landscape where shows are thrown onto services to collect dust like old VHS tapes, it’s impossible not to feel like TV has been in need of shows that feel like an event. The times of...
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American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found in a scene at the Sheraton Hotel in West Virginia that was so hideously bloody that one of the respondents reportedly fainted. With multiple slash wounds to his...
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