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The Jinx – Part Two Continues One of the Most Fascinating True Crime Sagas of All Time
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
“What made you talk to them?” “Still kinda putting that together in my own mind.” That really is the impossible question at the center of HBO’s wildly influential “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” isn’t it? Why...
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Calgary Underground 2024: Curtain Raiser
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) opens its 21st edition today, and runs until April 28th.  Western Canada's largest showcase of genre film, offbeat documentaries, and industry events is housed in the two-screen (stacked on top of one another) Globe Cinema in the heart...
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Banel & Adama Trailer: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Cannes-Selected Debut Feature Arrives This June
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
The only debut feature to premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival last year, Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s West African love story Banel & Adama is now set for a a release this summer. I had the opportunity to catch up with...
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Eliza Hittman Sets Fourth Feature with MOTHERLOVE
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Emerging as one of the great directors of the sensitives and complexities of youth with her three features thus far, It Felt Like Love, Beach Rats, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always, we’ve been waiting to see what filmmaker Eliza Hittman...
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THE GREATEST HITS Interview: Ned Benson, Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min on Los Angeles and Everchanging Relationships with Music
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In my review of The Greatest Hits, the new sci-fi romance from The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby writer/director Ned Benson, I mention that it opens with a montage of two young lovers “generally doing things that young, hip couples do...
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Introducing Ebertfest 25’s Film Critics and Scholars
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
For the past twenty-five years, Chaz Ebert and the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have hosted the Ebertfest Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois. Roger Ebert was the first Film Critic to win a...
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Glen Powell Wears Many Guises in New Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Hit Man
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
There’s a perfect world in which Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, a through-and-through crowdpleaser suffused with wit and style, gets a theatrical release and is this summer’s runaway hit, fueling the fire for however many collaborations the director wants with Glen...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Elena López Riera, Anna Hints & Lucie Borleteau Among Lucky 13 Shorts in Critics’ Week
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
After unveiling their feature film line-up on Monday, now the spotlight is on the shorts this morning. La Semaine de la Critique aka Critics’ Week have a set of ten competition films (those filmmakers can workshop their eventual feature in...
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Kokomo City Director D. Smith Sets Next Documentary with Blvd
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Following up one of the best documentaries of 2023, Kokomo City (which we awarded with the 2023 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award), director D. Smith has set her next project with an ambitious undertaking. Blvd, backed by Media Res...
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Hard Miles
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
The fact-based “Hard Miles” begins with a failure. Social worker Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) urges a judge to allow the resident of a facility for teenage boys who have been in trouble to allow him to stay there, even though...
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