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2024 Eurimages: Maryam Touzani, Emily Atef, May el-Toukhy & Kaouther Ben Hania Land Coin
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The results of the third Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of filmmakers we find the likes of Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters) who firmly moved back into fiction with Tu...
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Criterion Releases Gorgeous Box Set for Their 40th Anniversary
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Here's the gift idea for the film lover in your family.
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Gaucho Gaucho Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw on Mythology, Compositions, and Community
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Three gauchos on horseback gallop across an Argentine landscape, their connection to their animals and their surroundings palpable. In a crumbling church, an elderly gaucho confers with a parish priest, worried that his life has lost its meaning. A young...
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The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)
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Happy Thanksgiving from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today, for our 150th (!) episode, we are thankful for...
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Sujo Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry From Identifying Features Team Arrives Next Week
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One of the more formally impressive features I saw at Sundance earlier this year was the latest from Identifying Features team Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez. Sujo, which picked up a Sundance Grand Jury Prize and was named Mexico’s Oscar entry,...
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Maria | Review
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Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy recuperation of her last week of life in Maria, the third in a series of...
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SUJO Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry Explores the Life of a Young Man in Cartel Land
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Sujo, the latest visceral drama from directing duo Vernanda Faladez & Astrid Rondero (Identifying Features), spans decades in the life of a boy growing into a man in the shadow of the cartel. It premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film...
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‘Moana 2’ Review: Treading Water
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Moana’s great voyage winds up taking her around in circles. The post ‘Moana 2’ Review: Treading Water appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Jacques Demy’s Masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Gets New Trailer for 4K Restoration
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A heavy influence on major recent Hollywood musicals such as La La Land, Barbie, and even, perhaps most blatantly, Joker: Folie à Deux, Jacques Demy’s musical masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg has been restored in 4K for its 60th anniversary....
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Camerimage 2024 Review: RUST, Haunted By Death
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Alec Baldwin, Travis Fimmel, Frances Fisher, Josh Hopkins, and Patrick Mcdermott star in Joel Souza's film, marred by cinematographer Halyna Hutchins's tragic death during production. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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