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Interview: Ken Loach on The Old Oak, His Career, and Casting Light on the Abandoned
by admin|2 months ago|Slant Magazine
Loach discusses the connection between form and content throughout his body of work. The post Interview: Ken Loach on <em>The Old Oak</em>, His Career, and Casting Light on the Abandoned appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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The End of the World is Going to be Weird on Prime Video’s Quirky, Clever Adaptation of Fallout
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
Adapting open-world games can be a great challenge for film and TV creatives because they don’t have the handy-dandy narrative skeleton to convey what made a game so successful. How do you adapt a game with such little storytelling structure...
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It’s Only Life After All
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
There's a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After All,” a documentary about the Indigo Girls. The duo (Amy Ray and Emily Saliers) have been performing together, after all, for 40 years. The phenomenon of the Indigo...
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Panic Fest 2024: Spanish Shorts APOTEMNOFILIA and FACIES Wow With Extreme Violence and Exciting Ideas
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Panic Fest offers up another fantastic selection of shorts this year, but two in particular have stuck with me. Facies and Apotemnofilia both deliver shocking, stomach-churning moments of extreme violence that are memorable enough for the bodily reactions they elicit....
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Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft Sets Theatrical Run for May
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Is Aggro Dr1ft the future of cinema? Not in any quantifiable, justifiable sense. Does it have anything to say? I admire Harmony Korine using infrared images and abstract editing to convey anxieties about growing older, being a married man, and serving as...
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Wes Anderson Teams with Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel for The Phoenician Scheme
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Outside of perhaps Steven Spielberg and Janusz Kamiński, there may be no director-cinematographer collaboration that’s more extensive in modern-day cinema than that of Wes Anderson and Robert Yeoman. Having shot all of his live-action features, along with his recent Oscar-winning...
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The Zellner Brothers Take a Walk in the Wood with Sasquatch Sunset
by admin|2 months ago|Roger Ebert
Every film from David and Nathan Zellner—the writing/directing duo behind “Damsel” and “Kumiko the Treasure Hunter”—has a moment when the laughter stops, and the grim reality their protagonists must face sets in. The brothers adore misfits, finding space to center...
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2024 Directors’ Fortnight Golden Coach Award: Andrea Arnold (and “Bird”) Honored in Cannes
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold is packing her bags for the Cannes Film Festival. She’ll need to make some space in her luggage for Directors’ Fortnight Golden Coach Award but the will she replicate the double showcase that Kelly Reichardt had...
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Anya Taylor-Joy Joins Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Following up a pair of English-language short films, Pedro Almodóvar has now embarked on shooting his English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door. Starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro, and Alessandro Nivola, a new cast member has been added...
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2024 Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival Recap
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
Yesterday, the Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival concluded its 28th edition — well technically, in terms of the physical presence portion the five-day fest wrapped up on March 24th but then they phased into their online presence onwards...
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