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Cannes Review: Horizon: An American Saga – Part 1 Begins Kevin Costner’s Magnum Opus with Sweep and Grandeur
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
Scale, sweep, or schadenfreude; whatever you might be seeking in the films of Kevin Costner, you tend to walk away with the vistas. Think of the golden plains and stampeding buffalo of his directorial debut Dances with Wolves; or the...
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Always a Rebel: Alessandro Nivola on The Big Cigar
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
In 1974, film producer Bert Schneider – the producer behind such industry shifting New Hollywood hits as "Easy Rider, "Five Easy Pieces, and "The Last Picture Show" – put together a fake film production in order to help Huey P....
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Yorgos Lanthimos on the Caligula-Inspired Kinds of Kindness and Finding Hope in Humanity
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
Oh, to be one of the chosen. I guarantee this thought washes over every single person attending the Cannes Film Festival, at least at some point. It is a realization laden with ambivalence, as both an exclamation and a lament;...
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Cannes Review: Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez is an Audaciously Bad Dud
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
There’s a lot to look forward to in what has been branded a Mexican comedy-thriller musical from the Palme d’Or winner that brought us Dheepan, A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and, more recently, the underseen Western delight that marked his...
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The Garfield Movie
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and apparently, the people who made this couldn't, either. It reminds me of the legendary comment about “Nancy,” which, like “Garfield,” was originally a comic strip known for the...
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Hayao Miyazaki Crafts The Boy and the Heron in First Trailer for Two-Hour Behind-the-Scenes Documentary
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
While much of the Cannes Classics lineup this year look far back in cinema history, a new documentary in the lineup captures a behind-the-scenes look at a recent masterpiece. Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron is an expanded version of Kaku...
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Cannes 2024: The Weirdo Films of Cannes
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
With so many films playing in Cannes, from the competition to the sidebars like UCR and Fortnight, right through to the special presentations and other premieres, it’s often a point of amazement to ponder the sheer diversity that you get...
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La Pampa (Block Pass) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Will You Be My Ride or Die?: Chevrollier Ramps Up the Chaos in Portrait of Sons & Missing Fathers Exploring themes of rebellion, shame, and unresolved anguish, La Pampa (aka Block Pass) delves into the profound challenges of articulating inner...
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The Other Way Around | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Trueba Reinvents Couple Goals Gloriously reminding us that we are doomed to repeat the same existential mundane experiences, in an amuse bouche format with winks to Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaard and relationship woe cinema...
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Eephus | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Diamonds Are Not Forever: Lund Looks Beyond America’s Favorite Pastime Even with a full count of three balls and two strikes, it may seem like the stakes are low, but the never-mentioned patriarchal foundations are rife with uncertainty in filmmaker...
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