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Cannes Review: Universal Language is a Beguiling, Surrealist Ode to Persian Cinema
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
In Universal Language, a man makes a journey to his childhood home and meets the family now living there––these are at least the broad strokes. The director is Matthew Rankin, a Canadian filmmaker whose work usually requires less-basic terms. In...
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Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
One of the favorited Brazilian filmmakers of the Cannes film festival with Madame Satã (2002), O Céu de Suely (2006), and winner A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão having all premiered at the fest’s Un Certain Regard section. Adding Special...
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Motel Destino | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Destiny Indemnity: Ainouz Retrofits a Noir Classic “Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more, it’s hate,” wrote James M. Cain in his indelible, eternal noir 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Director Karim Aïnouz...
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Hit Man
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions of which often shift based on the generation of the speaker—when Hollywood made products that were sexier, smarter, and just generally better. Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man” is for them. ...
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Netflix’s Tires Should Have Fans of Shane Gillis Rolling
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to Shane Gillis. In 2019, the stand-up comedian was announced as a new cast member of “Saturday Night Live,” but then podcast footage surfaced in which Gillis used ethnic slurs (he...
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Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
I still recall when Miguel Gomes took over the Directors’ Fortnight section with not one, but three films for the The Arabian Nights trilogy (Volume 1: The Restless One, Volume 2: The Desolate One and Volume 3: The Enchanted One) in...
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Cannes Review: The Surfer Knows Exactly What to Do with Nicolas Cage
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
In The Surfer, an exploitation film set to pressure-cook, a mild-mannered man is pitted against a group who even Andrew Tate might find a touch extreme. It’s set in South Australia on fictional Luna Bay, the kind of place where...
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Cannes 2024 Review: THE BALCONETTES Paints a Portrait of Modern Ladies on Fire
by admin|4 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
Women get bloody man trouble in French comedy horror. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Grand Tour | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Runaway Groom: Gomes Charts a Barren Odyssey In what serves as an extremely taxing personification of cold feet, Miguel Gomes feels as if he’s going through stylistic motions with his latest feature, Grand Tour. A surprise project considering his long...
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Cannes 2024: Marcello Mio, Parthenope, Elementary
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
Chiara Mastroianni really does resemble her dad. Near the beginning of Christophe Honoré's "Marcello Mio," she has a dream in which she looks in the mirror and sees her famous father, Marcello Mastroianni, staring back. Telling her equally famous mother,...
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