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2024 Eurimages: Tarik Saleh, Hafsia Herzi, Joachim Trier, Carla Simon & Amanda Kernell Land Coin
by admin|3 months ago|Ioncinema
The results of the first Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of European-based filmmakers to receive some much-appreciated coin we find Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic, Carla Simon’s Romería, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental...
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SXSW 2024: What We Watched, Liked and Loved
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
From March 8-16, 2024, the center of our genre-film loving world moved to Austin, Texas, US, where the SXSW Film & TV Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films and television shows. Our own J. Hurtado attended the...
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EVIL DOES NOT EXIST U.S. Trailer: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Ventures Into The Woods in His ‘Drive My Car’ Follow-Up
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Following the global success of his Oscar-winning Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi ventured to a rural village just outside Tokyo to film – in secret – his newest drama. Evil Does Not Exist is considered a return to the director’s...
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John Early Feels Trapped in First Trailer for Stress Positions
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
After delivering one of the best stand-ups of the last few years with John Early: Now More Than Ever, the comedian is now back on the big screen, this time leading his own project. Theda Hammel’s Stress Positions, which premiered...
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DOGMAN Review: Reality Literally Bites in Luc Besson’s Latest Crime Film
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
On a cinematically rainy night, a truck packed with dogs is pulled over by the cops. The driver is Marilyn Monroe in the famous getup from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The pink, the wig and the makeup ruined by blood. At...
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Five Years Later, Us is Jordan Peele’s Defining Puzzle
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
In the opening shot of Jordan Peele’s “Us” is a curious invitation: A Rubix Cube, placed on the shelf just underneath a modest movie collection, is practically a winking acknowledgment by Peele of the appetite “Get Out” stirred in critics,...
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi Returns with U.S. Trailer for Evil Does Not Exist
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
One of the best surprises in cinema this past year was the news that Ryusuke Hamaguchi, just two years after his perfect one-two punch of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car, had secretly shot and completed another...
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We Were the Lucky Ones
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Based on Georgia Hunter’s novel of the same name, a fictionalization of a true story, Hulu’s “We Were the Lucky Ones” is a harrowing tale of resilience and family in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. The improbable story concerns...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 532 – The Zone of Interest (with Natalia Winkelman)
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Natalia Winkelman to discuss Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and...
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SXSW Review: Dead Mail Provides a New Twist on the Slasher Flick
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Blending found footage and what appears to be grainy 16mm (they shot the film on an early DV as a matter of fact), Kyle McConaghy and Joe DeBoer’s Dead Mail embraces the creepiness of its concept. Like Jane Schoenbrun’s I...
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