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SXSW 2024: Dandelion, A Nice Indian Boy, I Don’t Understand You, I Love You Forever
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Film festivals have long been a safe place for personal stories, usually independently produced passion projects for creators to explore their own interests and sometimes even their life journeys. Sometimes a film like this can almost feel too close to...
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SXSW 2024 Review: HOOD WITCH, Golshifteh Farahani Runs For Her Life In This Literal Witch Hunt
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A trafficker of rare animals finds herself in the crosshairs of a literal witch hunt when a young boy plummets to his death following a visit in Saïd Belktibia’s Hood Witch, celebrating its international premiere at this year’s SXSW Film...
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SXSW Review: Alex Garland’s Civil War is a Provocative, Masterfully Directed Nightmare
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
While bound to spark hundreds of think pieces, Alex Garland’s stirring Civil War will undoubtedly go down, too, as one of the most provocative films of the year. It’s also an early contender for one of the best, offering a...
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MOGWAI: IF THE STARS HAD A SOUND
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival will host nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Bears Rebecca Fonté’s Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on...
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In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most interesting music of his career. That makes over six decades of Simon’s impact on the popular music consciousness—from his earlier days as an Everly Brothers-inspired double act with...
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Criterion in June 2024: BOUND, QUERELLE, VICTIMS OF SIN, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Plus: 'Blue Velvet' and 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' get 4K upgrades. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SXSW 2024 Review: CIVIL WAR, Is Not What You Think It Is. It’s So Much More.
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
It's not an uncommon trope in action movies. In the midst of a cacophony of gunfire and explosions, the soundtrack goes silent as a character experiences a traumatic experience and the world around them fades from view. However, it has...
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Now Streaming: APPLES NEVER FALL Tries to Teach, MANHUNT Simply Thrills
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy and Alison Brie star in a family melodrama, now streaming on Peacock TV. Or, you can watch the search for Abe Lincoln's killer on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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The Criterion Collection’s June Lineup Includes Blue Velvet and the Wachowskis on 4K, The Underground Railroad & More
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
And I still can see blue velvet through my tears… in 4K! Surely Criterion will add an audio track in their upgrade of David Lynch’s beyond-seminal film, arriving this June in an otherwise-identical edition to 2019’s release. At least two...
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Queen of Good Corporate Governance, Nell Minow Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Work on Behalf of Shareholders
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
The International Corporate Governance Network, with members who oversee more than $77 trillion in investment capital on behalf of working people, presented lifetime achievement awards to governance pioneers in Washington DC on March 7. One of the awardees was RogerEbert.com...
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