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First Trailer for Yance Ford’s Power Examines the Police State of America
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Oscar-nominated Strong Island director Yance Ford returned to Sundance Film Festival this year with Power, a lively, detailed essay film that takes a deep look at the history of policing in the United States and unceasing expansion of its scope and scale,...
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Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise Moves to Streaming with Entertaining Knuckles
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
After two “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies that involved Hollywood court ordering the blue blur to do the same mundane story as every popular property does by shipping him to Earth and spewing pop culture references as the basis of humor,...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Rúnar Rúnarsson, Céline Sallette, Jessica Palud & Emanuel Parvu in Final Add-Ons
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
Today we’ve got a baker’s dozen thirteen added to the Cannes 2024 edition. We learned beforehand that Mohammad Rasoulof and Michel Hazanavicius we competition entries and one more title trickled in from Romanian actor/director Emanuel Parvu and his Trois kilomètres...
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MUBI’s May 2024 Lineup Features Radu Jude, Bertrand Bonello, Lee Chang-dong & More
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
MUBI’s May 2024 (streaming) lineup embraces their latest (theatrical) coup with a Radu Jude program. In addition to Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World arriving May 3, the Romanian director is highlighted with a six-film...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Hazanavicius’ “The Most Precious of Cargoes” & Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in Comp
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
Are we capping off the Palme d’Or competition at twenty-one? This might be the case as we learned this morning (looks like Variety has red phone direct access to Thierry Frémaux) that the anticipated (we briefly discussed it in our...
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Sound And Vision: Luca Guadagnino
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at several music videos by Luca Guadagnino. Luca Guadagnino's films are vibrant and lush, pulsating with life...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival Highlights Unearthed Treasures of Film History
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
For the past twenty-seven years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has unearthed treasures from the silent film era and presented them with context and curation for audiences of the City by the Bay. Over the decades the festival has...
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Humane Review: A Modest Proposal
by admin|2 months ago|Slant Magazine
Tension becomes Caitlin Cronenberg’s film. The release of it, not so much. The post <em>Humane</em> Review: A Modest Proposal appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver Review: Zack Snyder’s Ho-Hum Seven Samurai in Space
by admin|2 months ago|Slant Magazine
Snyder’s space epic plays more to his strengths, but it can’t rise above his weaknesses. The post <em>Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver</em> Review: Zack Snyder’s Ho-Hum <em>Seven Samurai</em> in Space appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Art College 1994 Review: Liu Jian’s Animated Idyll of Youth in Repose, and Revolt
by admin|2 months ago|Slant Magazine
The contrast of stasis and flux, of the sublime and the quotidian, characterizes Liu’s latest. The post <em>Art College 1994</em> Review: Liu Jian’s Animated Idyll of Youth in Repose, and Revolt appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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