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Death Proof: Stepanyan Certifies Camille Cottin & Zar Amir Ebrahimi for Fiction Debut
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Earlier today, Cineuropa’s Fabien Lemercier revealed an alluring-sounding project that we’ll be keeping a close eye on. Heading into production this week, Armenia-born, Lebanese documentary filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan has lassoed Camille Cottin and Zar Amir Ebrahimi for a complex, perhaps...
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KILL: Check Out This Violent Clip And The Official Poster
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Hey. Do you want to get a sense of how holy-fuck-violent Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's action movie Kill is? Then watch this clip!   If I remember correctly, since it's been a while since I caught the world premiere at TIFF,...
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die Review: Boys to Men
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Ride or Die plays out like it might be preparing us to let go of its big-name legacy leads. The post <em>Bad Boys: Ride or Die</em> Review: Boys to Men appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die
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I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” of using A.I., a touchy subject in Hollywood these days. But if a computer had written this blockbuster sequel, it wouldn’t turn out much different.  Serving as...
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The Small Back Room Restoration Trailer: An Underseen Powell & Pressburger Gem Returns to Theaters
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It’s been decades since they’ve passed, but this summer is shaping up to be the season of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Alongside MoMA’s massive retrospective of their work, Annie Baker will introduce The Tales of Hoffmann at Film at...
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Japan Cuts 2024 Includes Films by Hideaki Anno, Takeshi Kitano, Shinya Tsukamoto, Shinji Somai & More
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Comprising international premieres, short programs, and some of the country’s finest-ever films in new restorations, 2024’s Japan Cuts––running July 10-21 at New York’s Japan Society––has been unveiled. It’s in the festival’s nature that numerous works and directors are lesser-known on...
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LYNNE SACHS: FROM THE OUTSIDE IN (A RETROSPECTIVE)
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Lynne Sachs’ latest film, Contractions, exists, like much of her work, at the intersection of experimental and documentary film practices. In the 12-minute work, superimposition, narration, and choreography are intermingled–all captured using a graceful and haunting camera language that lends...
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Exclusive Trailer Debut for America: Everything You’ve Ever Dreamed Of Introduces the Films of Rhody Streeter and Tony Ganz
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Continuing their streak of restorations seemingly nobody would even think to undertake, The Film Desk will soon premiere a program of ten shorts directed by Rhody Streeter and Tony Ganz. Titled America: Everything You’ve Ever Dreamed Of, it’ll start a...
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ChiFilm Fest’s 60th Anniversary Cinema Soirée
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It was a celebration that, in some sense, had been sixty years in the making. It was also necessary. It’s been a rough year for festivals: the Berlinale witnessed deep political divides around its response to Gaza, Toronto International Film...
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ALIEN: ROMULUS: New Trailer And a Poster That Goes For The Throat
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Back in the day I was with my parents and brother in one of our local malls and we were thinking about going to see a movie. This was when James Cameron's Aliens was playing and I kid you not,...
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