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Two More Weeks in the Midday Sun
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
I was fortunate enough to meet Roger and Chaz Ebert in 2010 as they interviewed directors to pilot their upcoming public television review program. But as I mentioned to Roger, even though we were meeting for the first time, I...
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Criterion in August 2024: Albert Brooks, Albert Brooks, Martha Coolidge, THE LAST EMPEROR in 4K
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Plus: two long-suppressed features by Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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The Damned | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
The Damned Do Cry: Minervini Details a Doomed Mission For his first narrative feature, Roberto Minervini tackles another aspect of the evolving American identity with The Damned. A period piece depicting a company of volunteer soldiers charged with patrolling and protecting...
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The B-Side – In Conversation with Eric Bana
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. And sometimes if we’re lucky we talk...
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Cannes 2024: Table of Contents
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
The following table of contents contains Chaz Ebert's video dispatches from Cannes 2024, produced by herself and Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, and written dispatches by Robert Daniels, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber, Isaac Feldberg, Scott Dummler, and Lisa Nesselson.  Video Dispatches: A...
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Cannes 2024 Review: IT DOESN’T MATTER, A Black Man Comes of Age in Modern America
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Jay Will and Christopher Abbott star as best friends in Josh Mond's second feature film after his 2015 debut, 'James White.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as a backdrop for a pseudo gangland thriller and romantic drama in Locust. Much like its...
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Netflix’s Bridgerton Makes Some Improvements to its Popular Formula
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
The Shondaland/Netflix juggernaut that is “Bridgerton” is back for a third season, after taking a fruitful detour via its “Queen Charlotte” prequel. This new season, focusing on the love story of Nicola Coughlan’s Penelope Featherington and Luke Newton’s Colin Bridgerton,...
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Alexandre Aja Sets Halle Berry in Psychological Thriller in First Trailer for Never Let Go
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
After crafting some of the most entertaining B-movies in recent years with Crawl and Oxygen, Alexandre Aja is returning with a new one-location psychological thriller this year. Never Let Go, not to be confused with Kazuo Ishiguro’s book and Mark...
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Kathryn Bigelow, Pietro Marcello, Juliette Binoche & More Set Next Films
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
At long last, Kathryn Bigelow is returning to filmmaking. After 2017’s Detroit, she was developing the David Koepp-scripted thriller Aurora for Netflix but has now moved on to another project for the company. The untitled thriller will unfold in real-time...
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