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Jeanne du Barry Review: Maïwenn’s Hollow Portrait of a Courtesan Turned Comtesse
by admin|15 hours ago|Slant Magazine
The film is eventually caught up in the very pomp and splendor that it initially lampoons. The post <em>Jeanne du Barry</em> Review: Maïwenn’s Hollow Portrait of a Courtesan Turned Comtesse appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Lost Soulz Review: Katherine Propper’s Joyful, Rap-Infused Road-Trip Movie
by admin|16 hours ago|Slant Magazine
Lost Soulz is a road-trip movie driven by good vibrations and the joy of making music. The post <em>Lost Soulz</em> Review: Katherine Propper’s Joyful, Rap-Infused Road-Trip Movie appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Slow Review: Marija Kavtaradzė’s Complex Exploration of Communication and Intimacy
by admin|16 hours ago|Slant Magazine
Beyond its exquisitely granular precision, Kavtaradzė’s film is notable for its levity. The post <em>Slow</em> Review: Marija Kavtaradzė’s Complex Exploration of Communication and Intimacy appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Wildcat Review: A Prickly and Uncompromising Biopic, Just Like Flannery O’Connor Herself
by admin|16 hours ago|Slant Magazine
The O’Connor of Wildcat is a contentious outsider who seems ill at ease in her own skin. The post <em>Wildcat</em> Review: A Prickly and Uncompromising Biopic, Just Like Flannery O’Connor Herself appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Calgary Underground 2024 Review: CUCKOO, Delightfully Analog Sensory Overload
by admin|16 hours ago|Screen Anarchy
Two characters, having barely survived a traumatic and violent ordeal at a hospital, try to leave, only to find the doors locked. But wait, it is one of those situations where one door is locked but the other one works...
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Udine 2024 Review: THEIR LAST LOVE AFFAIR, Lee Myung-se’s Daring and Dazzling Tale of Illicit Romance
by admin|2 days ago|Screen Anarchy
This year's Far East Film Festival is screening a large number of South Korean classics, including a full program dedicated to the country's fascinating 1950s output, such as Park Nam-ok's progressive drama The Widow, the first Korean film ever directed...
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Udine 2024 Review: 12.12: THE DAY, Riveting Drama Brings Dark Episode of Korean History Into the Light
by admin|2 days ago|Screen Anarchy
One of the final dark closets of modern Korean history gets thrown wide open in Kim Sung-soo's riveting historical drama 12.12: The Day. The film dramatises the coup d'état that took place in the wake of the assassination of President...
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Udine 2024 Review: THE ROUNDUP: PUNISHMENT Wins One More Round in a Franchise Clinging to the Ropes
by admin|2 days ago|Screen Anarchy
It’s Beast Cop vs Bitcoin in the fourth instalment of Ma Dong-seok’s enduringly popular Roundup action franchise, as his hulking detective goes toe-to-toe with a tech-savvy crime syndicate looking to expand into crypto. Helmed by action director Heo Myeong-haeng, Ma’s...
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Speed Kills: On the 25th Anniversary of Go
by admin|2 days ago|Roger Ebert
The unexpected global success of “Pulp Fiction” in 1994 spawned a wave of wannabes and cash-ins, many of them mixing and matching elements that they thought made Quentin Tarantino’s movie a success: Violence, drugs, ostentatiously declamatory dialogue and monologues, time-shifting...
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Exclusive Trailer Debut for Hiroshi Shimizu Retrospective, Starting May 4, Sheds Light on a Japanese Master
by admin|3 days ago|The Film Stage
However hard it is to expand the canon, legwork must always be done. In my own time I’ve seen the understanding of mid-century Japanese cinema expand, however marginally, from Kurosawa alone to Ozu and Mizoguchi; it may be now that...
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