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East of Noon | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Noon Gloom: Elkoussy Mounts Shadowy, Allegorical Fantasy An industrial wasteland outside of a specific time or place provides the backdrop for Hala Elkoussy’s ingenious, but somewhat languid sophomore film East of Noon (Sharq 12). The film’s relationship to music and its...
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A Conversation with John Waters (CRY-BABY)
by admin|4 weeks ago|Hammer to Nail
Baltimore-based filmmaker John Waters—aka “The Pope of Trash”—began his career in the 1960s as a provocateur, directing a series of proudly outrageous features on microscopic budgets, with drag queen Divine as his frequent star. His many early works include Pink...
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Cannes Review: Renate Reinsve Proves Brilliant In Halfdan Ullmann Tønde’s Debut Armand
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
How is a child’s life different from that of adults today? What is it like growing up around stimuli, in a world that is always-online, and with varying degrees of supervision? Is complete safeguarding even possible? These are questions contemporary...
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Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 Wastes Its Potential
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
It’s okay for stories to end, and when I rolled credits on 2017's “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice,” I thought Ninja Theory, its developer, understood that as well. Senua, a woman who hears voices and was thought cursed by those around her,...
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A Vittorio De Sica Masterwork is Restored in New Trailer for Shoeshine
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
While certainly best-known for Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica’s vast, varied body of work is worth diving into. This June, those in NYC can experience quite a taste of it with four films by the director at Film at Lincoln...
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TRYING S4 Review: So You Still Want to Be a Parent?
by admin|4 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
Rafe Spall and Esther Smith star in a warm and witty British series, now streaming on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Mystery Unfolds In First Trailer for Alain Guiraudie’s Cannes Premiere Misericordia
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
The Cannes crush can be so unforgiving. This year’s case in point: Misericordia has premiered to relatively little notice despite being the latest by the great Alain Guiraudie. This is no doubt owed to placing out of competition and into...
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MUBI’s June 2024 Lineup Features Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Abbas Kiarostami, Hirokazu Kore-eda & More
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
MUBI has unveiled next month’s streaming lineup, featuring recent releases such as Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, Tynan DeLong’s Dad & Step-Dad, and Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying. Additional highlights include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Passion, Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, Alex Thompson’s Saint...
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Living Through Words: Ethan Hawke on His Career, Poetry, and Wildcat
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
By-the-books biopics are a dime a dozen and often result in a shallow portrait of their subject. But every once in a while you'll get a filmmaker whose film's unconventional form perfectly aligns with the singular talent at its heart....
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Eat the Night | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
The Sway of the Sword: Reality Bytes in Poggi/Vinel’s Bleak Online/Offline Portrait Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel‘s sophomore feature outing pulses with the heartbeat of survival, where a side passion becomes a lifeline and a main, risky hustle can be...
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