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THE THREE MUSKETEERS – PART 2: MILADY
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(Check out Chris Reed’s The Three Musketeers – Part 2: Milady movie review. It’s in theaters now via Samuel Goldwyn Films.Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If you enjoyed French director Martin Bourboulon’s The Three Musketeers –...
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The 2024 Chicago Palestine Film Festival Highlights
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
For nearly a quarter century, the Chicago Palestine Film Festival has showcased film gems by or about Palestinians. One of the largest global populations of Palestinians lives in Chicago, concentrating in southwest suburban Bridgeview, also known as “Little Palestine.” After...
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David Lynch Debuts New Remix — Listen
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Though Netflix ruined our hopes for another David Lynch movie––perhaps too much to ask from the people behind Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver, now streaming™––the man more or less never stops creating. (When we did an...
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PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK 4K Review: Wow. Wow. Wow.
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Peter Weir's magical mystery tour from 1975 looks like it was released today in the incredible-looking Criterion Collection 4K edition. This is why Australia is called "Oz." [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Lynne Ramsay, Abdellatif Kechiche & Jessica Palud Among 11th Hour Film Options?
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
The films from the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections are now on firm grounds and as we anticipate the unveiling of the Cannes Short Film Competition and Cannes Classics selections, there’s also anticipation surrounding those last additions to the...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Love Streams, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ozu & More
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaOur House of Tolerance 35mm presentation returns on Friday, while a print of the James Dean-led Giant shows this Saturday alongside prints of Twilight and Half Baked; Decoder also screens. Paris...
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New Trailer for 4K Restoration of Time of the Heathen Captures a World After the Atomic Bomb
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
While Christopher Nolan recently directly explored the creation of the atomic bomb, a long-lost 1961 film explores the landscape directly after the dropping of the bomb in uniquely expressionistic fashion, set against the racial politics of the decade. Helmed by...
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Man on the Moon Is Still the Cure for the Biopic Blues
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
Andy Kaufman doesn’t want you to watch his biopic. At the start of “Man on the Moon,” Kaufman (played by Jim Carrey) appears on screen, addressing us directly, using the squiggly voice he’d wield on stage and on “Taxi.” “I...
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We Grown Now
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now” is a film masterfully tied to the emotive potential of place. A period piece centered in Cabrini-Green in the early '90s, the film is as Chicago born and bred as the characters it loves throughout...
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THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE Review: Real-Life WWII Superspies Get the Guy Ritchie Treatment
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
With three films in four years, Guy Ritchie (Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Wrath of Man) has proven himself nothing if not prolific, specifically of broadly appealing, easily digestible, ultimately forgettable entertainments. As surface-deep as...
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