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Une Famille | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|Ioncinema

A Letter to Daddy: Angot Continues Confrontation of Incest In short, there is no way to rate a film like Une Famille, the debut documentary feature from celebrated writer Christine Angot. It is an uncomfortable confrontation with both the surviving...

They Shot the Piano Player

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|Roger Ebert

Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba, who co-directed “They Shot the Piano Player,” first encountered the work of the film’s subject, Brazilian keyboardist Francisco Tenorio Júnior, in a record store twenty years ago. Trueba was so enraptured by the music that he...

Martin Scorsese Hopes His Jesus Film Will Provide a Universal Sense of Peace, Not Answers

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|The Film Stage

After his Oscar-nominated epic Killers of the Flower Moon and a sci-fi Super Bowl ad, Martin Scorsese will return to the realm of faith for his next project. We recently learned his adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s A Life of Jesus, which...

A Conversation with Maggie Greenwald (THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO)

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|Hammer to Nail

Veteran director Maggie Greenwald made what many, including her, consider her most-celebrated work, The Ballad of Little Jo, in 1993. Now, 30 years later, courtesy of Kino Lorber, there comes a brand-new Blu-ray release featuring an HD master of the...

Shambhala | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|Ioncinema

Defending Your Life: Bham’s Captivating Quest Follows Its Own Path The journey is the destination in Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bam’s graceful sophomore film, Shambhala, a simple narrative about complex reckonings. The title is a name derived from Sanskrit, meaning...

NYC Weekend Watch: Jackie Brown and Out of Sight, Seven Samurai, Raoul Peck & More

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageA retrospective of snubbed performances brings the Ray Nicolette double-feature of Jackie Brown and Out of Sight, as well as The Heartbreak Kid, The Fugitive, and Top Hat; the...

About Dry Grasses | Review

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|Ioncinema

To Sir, With Ego: Ceylan Waltzes with Narcissism in Captivating Character Study The filmography of Nuri Bilge Ceylan is characterized by complex examinations of human nature, stretched across scenarios which have only become more dense over the past two decades....

Io Capitano | Review

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|Ioncinema

Journey to Italy: Garrone Details Arduous Migrant Odyssey It might be a rite of passage for contemporary Italian auteurs to examine the grueling adversity faced by migrants considering the ongoing crisis which began a decade ago, as timely a cinematic...

CAMP PLEASANT LAKE Review: A Crazed Jonathan Lipnicki Headlines This Summer Camp Slasher

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|Screen Anarchy

A bunch of horror LARPers meet grisly ends in the micro-budget summer camp slasher, Camp Pleasant Lake. Boasting a small selection of familiar faces from genre cinema and a mystifying lead performance from Jerry Maguire’s Jonathan Lipnicki, who hams it...

The Enduring Laughs—and Life—of Harold Ramis

by admin|4 months ago23 February 2024|Roger Ebert

My late husband Roger Ebert noted potential in Harold Ramis from the moment he awarded four stars to the first film that the "SCTV" star co-wrote, 1978's hit comedy, "National Lampoon's Animal House." "The movie is vulgar, raunchy, ribald, and occasionally scatological,"...

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