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7 Films to See at New Directors/New Films
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many prolific filmmakers today, including Steven Spielberg, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo del Toro, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Christopher Nolan – just to name a...
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SUGAR Review: Sweet, Spicy, Stylish Hollywood Noir
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Colin Farrell, Kirby, Amy Ryan, and James Cromwell star in the cool new detective story, debuting on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Nick Newman and the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research Present Amnesiascope, a New Screening Series, on April 12
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Complementing recent work with the Roxy Cinema and BAM, I’ve begun a monthly screening series at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. It’s called Amnesiascope and somewhat unique: a “blindfold” program wherein I pick the (rare, out-of-print) film and you...
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THE PEOPLE’S JOKER Review: Maniacally Magical
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
It makes perfect sense that writer/director/effects artist/star Vera Drew doesn't want to rewatch The People’s Joker anymore. Drew has spent more than three years with the film now, since its beginning as a re-edit of the 2019 film Joker, through the...
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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Set in 1980s Tuscany, the ethereal romantic drama "La chimera" from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher follows the plights of Arthur (Josh O'Connor), a heartbroken British archaeologist who uses a divining rod to locate Etruscan artifacts, which he, along with a band...
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The Beast
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”) is a 1903 short story by Henry James called “The Beast in the Jungle.” Seen by some James scholars as an autobiographical expression of rue for a life...
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Palestinian Voices Speak In Exclusive Trailer for Sci-Fi Documentary Lyd
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Safe to assume the ongoing atrocities in Gaza will engender cinema, fiction and documentary alike, further into the future than we can imagine. Decades of aggression have yielded, in just this last year, the TIFF selection Alam and Berlinale winner...
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Coup de chance | Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Bad Luck Banging: Luck is a Fickle Mistress in Allen’s Amusing Gallic Debut For his fiftieth (and rumored to be last) film, Woody Allen’s French language debut, Coup de chance (Stroke of Luck) also happens to be one of his...
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Park Chan-wook Lines Up Next Film The Ax with Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin Attached
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Following up his noir melodrama Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook ventured into the world of American television with the forthcoming Max series The Sympathizer, adapting Viet Thanh Nguyen’s acclaimed novel and teaming with Robert Downey Jr. With the limited series...
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Ken Loach on The Old Oak, Why Every Film is a Documentary, and Artistic Solidarity
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
An expectation of finality has followed Ken Loach’s The Old Oak since its premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. “When you’re doing it, you’re doing it, you just have to get a move on and get on with it,”...
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