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Cannes 2024: Megalopolis
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
Immediately upon exiting “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s wine-backed passion project, I had a single, inescapable thought: I’m glad I got to watch Coppolla’s “Chi-raq.” For some, that admittedly jarring comparison will be a total turnoff. After all, for Spike Lee,...
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Cannes 2024: Kinds of Kindness; Oh, Canada; Scénarios
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
For anyone who complained that Yorgos Lanthimos went soft with "Poor Things" and "The Favourite," "Kinds of Kindness" revives the malicious tendencies that have run through even some of his best films. The movie reunites him with his early and frequent...
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Kinds of Kindness | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Bounds of Boundaries: Lanthimos Entertains Himself with Bizarre Triptych It’s safe to say Yorgos Lanthimos has undoubtedly entered the oblivious, self-indulgent era of his career with his latest, Kinds of Kindness, recycling a large number of his Poor Things (2023)...
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Three Kilometres To The End Of The World | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
It Can’t Happen Here: Parvu’s Agonizing Procedural on Small Town Homophobia For his third feature, Three Kilometers to the End of the World, Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu once again tackles a scenario of strained relations between children and their parents....
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THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1 Review: Why Are You Doing This?
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Those lamenting the dearth of originality in films in this epoch of remakes/reboots/reimaginings/requels, etc find no challenge to their despair in Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 1. The first of a planned – and already completed – trilogy of films...
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Cannes Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a Garish Wonder to Behold
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
If you dove head first into Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, you would get a concussion. The filmmaker’s supposed opus––a glitzy, gargantuan, long-gestating project that he conceived of in the late ‘70s, attempted to make more than once in the ‘80s,...
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Friday One Sheet: IN A VIOLENT NATURE
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
This gritty poster for Chris Nash's original and disturbing slasher film was designed by The Boland Design Company, and unironically features the word "gnarly" in the top pull quote.  When designing a poster for a slasher (or for that matter,...
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Francis Ford Coppola on Having No Regrets with Megalopolis and the Films He’d Never Re-Edit
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
After batting around the mind of Francis Ford Coppola for nearly half-a-century, Megalopolis was bestowed upon the world yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival. While reactions were expectedly divisive, and our review will be arriving shortly, we’ve now gleaned more...
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Cannes 2024 Review: HOLY COW, French Cheese-Making Dramedy Is a Finely Crafted Debut Feature
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Louise Courvoisier directed. A brash young man is humbled by provincial life. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Smells Like Entrepreneurial Spirit!: Courvoisier Climbs Up the Totone Poll In her directorial debut, Louise Courvoisier delves into themes of altruism and resilience, navigating a narrative that straddles the line between a troubled past and an uncertain future. It’s got...
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