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KINDS OF KINDNESS Teaser Trailer: Yorgos Lanthimos & Emma Stone Reunite for Anthology Comedy
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
“This is it. The moment of truth.” Fresh off her second Best Actress Oscar win for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, Emma Stone’s newest collaboration with the director will be arriving a lot sooner than expected. Lanthimos’ anthology...
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David Krumholtz Wants to Reintroduce Himself to You
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Over Zoom, David Krumholtz flashes a friendly, bashful smile, his demeanor several shades warmer than the character he plays in the movie he’s here to promote. Named after the depressive malcontent at its center, “Lousy Carter” is a wry, off-kilter...
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Watch: A 17-Year-Old Orson Welles Directs Shakespeare in Never-Before-Released Footage of His 1933 Production
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
A special piece of cinema history has been unveiled. Seven years before Orson Welles would embark on the production of his legendary directorial debut Citizen Kane, he shot one of his earliest short films, capturing his production of William Shakespeare’s...
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Exclusive: Terrence Malick’s Three-Hour Biblical Epic The Way of the Wind Aims for 2025 Premiere as First Story Details Arrive
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
While Martin Scorsese aims to kick off production on his Jesus film this year, Terrence Malick is going on year five of editing his, marking one of the only films to wrap production pre-pandemic that still has yet to be...
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First Teaser for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness Brings Together Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons & More
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Quickly following up last year’s Poor Things, we’ll be getting Yorgos Lanthimos’ next feature sooner than expected as Kinds of Kindness arrives this summer. Featuring a reunion with Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Joe Alwyn, with an ensemble also including Jesse...
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SXSW Review: Secret Mall Apartment Finds Artists Making a Home in the Belly of the Gentrification Beast
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Shedding light on a quirky 2007 story that made national headlines, Secret Mall Apartment takes us deep into the bowels of the Providence Place Mall, centerpiece of the renaissance of Rhode Island’s capital city developed under convict mayor Buddy Cianci....
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Titus: The Masterpiece that the Cinematic Greatness of 1999 Obscured
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
1999 was one of the very best movie years, producing masterpiece after masterpiece, and even the movies that were less than that still made viewers feel as if they were practically drowning in a sea of amazing work. Brian Raftery's...
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WATCH: Emotions Are Exorcised in an Exclusive Clip for ‘With Love and a Major Organ’
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
If one is in the mood for a melancholic sci-fi love story, the best option this season is With Love and a Major Organ. Directed by Kim Albright with a script penned by Julia Lederer, it had its world premiere...
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A Conversation with Julie Lunde Lillesæter, Marina Garrett & Hanna Senko (AN ARMY OF WOMEN)
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Set in Austin, Texas—the location of its world premiere, at SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it)—the documentary An Army of Women explores how the local police department and district attorney have failed to prosecute perpetrators of sexual assault and rape...
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Mothers’ Instinct Review: Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain Lead Sincere, Stylish Melodrama
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
It wouldn’t take much to convince an unsuspecting audience member that Mothers’ Instinct is the latest dispatch from the Don’t Worry Darling cinematic universe. The directorial debut of cinematographer Benoît Delhomme initially appears to be a surface-level rendering of a...
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