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Cannes Review: In Bird, Andrea Arnold’s Experiment in Magical Realism Rarely Takes Off
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
This year’s Cannes competition began with a film set in a working-class environment where a young woman with a single mother dreamed of escaping it all through dance. It was Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond, but squint the eyes and forget...
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Watch Martin Scorsese’s Bleu de Chanel Ad Starring Timothée Chalamet
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Martin Scorsese’s latest directorial effort and first collaboration with Timothée Chalamet is upon us––it just happens to clock at 1/206th Killers of the Flower Moon‘s length and point us towards a product. But this Bleu de Chanel ad features nearly...
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BACK TO BLACK Review: Amy Winehouse Gets the Conventional Biopic Treatment
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Marisa Abela stars in the music-themed drama, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Cannes Review: Josh Mond Returns With Vibey Down-and-Out Road Movie It Doesn’t Matter
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
The best festivals point to the future, capture the zeitgeist, or honor the past. At Locarno in 2015, you could have had all three: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Happy Hour (his first time premiering in a major competition), Chantal Akerman’s No Home...
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Bird | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Dole Days: Arnold Flutters About with Strange Bedfellows There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and themes tying it all together are about as wispy and freewheeling as scattered feathers drifting...
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IF Review: John Krasinski’s Muddled, Moving Fantasy-Drama
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Ryan Reynolds stars in writer/director John Krasinski's latest film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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New to Streaming: Challengers, Chime, Sasquatch Sunset, Power & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. American Fiction (Cord Jefferson) Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is in a rut. He’s still trying...
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Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Winner of two Palme d’Ors, Francis Ford Coppola‘s makes a huge return to Cannes with a film that will not go unnoticed in Megalopolis. With the price tag of about 120 Sean Baker features, this Julius Caesar salad (forgive the...
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Olivier Assayas Will Direct Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Zach Galifianakis & More in The Wizard of the Kremlin
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
After his epic undertaking of rethinking Irma Vep for a new generation, Olivier Assayas premiered the small-scale Suspended Time at Berlinale earlier this year, but now the French director is back to working on a bigger canvas. He’s unveiled his...
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Les Fantômes (Ghost Trail) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
The Executioner’s Song: Millet’s Stabbing Debut Looks at How Control Moves Beyond Borders If a Syrian doesn’t find himself in Syria does he still make a sound? In Jonathan Millet’s feature debut, those who are far, far away from their...
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