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Kinds of Kindness | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Pablo Larraín: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Films Make “Me Feel Less Lonely”
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Launched last year by Wes Anderson’s producing partners at Indian Paintbrush, GALERIE has emerged as a well-curated film club publishing unique selections of films from artists with their personal annotations. With past lists from the likes of James Gray, Ed...
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BACKSPOT
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(Check our Chris Reed’s movie review of Backspot, in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In Backspot, the feature debut of Canadian director D.W. Waterson, the competition may be fierce, but at the end...
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