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Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon
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Kicking off November 8 in Estonia, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) is a strong showcase for independent voices in international cinema. One premiere on our radar is Lina Lužytė and Nerijus Milerius’ Jōhatsu, which explores the Japanese...
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Lausanne 2024 Interview: SCALA!!!, Jane Giles and Ali Catterall on Cult Cinema, Counterculture Icons, London’s Underground Legacy
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Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss the transformation of London's Scala cinema from an underground movie theater into an icon of cult film and counterculture. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT Review: Invigorating, Infuriating Documentary Epic
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Like much of the jazz that soundtracks it, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat doesn't hold your hand. From the start, the film unleashes a frenetic, almost overwhelming, visual language. It's a visual language that, along with the phenomenal titular soundtrack,...
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Youth (Hard Times) | Review
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Make the Best of Us: Bing’s ‘Youth’ Cycle Expands Into the Gloom The middle part of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) perhaps more properly addresses the bleak realities of his observational endeavor, cobbled together into a cohesive structure...
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THE EDGE OF NATURE
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“I guess you could call that instinct – or insanity,” states the director-writer-environmental activist Josh Fox about his compulsion to build a high platform in the middle of the Pennsylvania forest where he’d gone to convalesce from long Covid. Later,...
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F MARRY KILL Official Trailer: Lucy Hale Might be Dating a Serial Killer, or Three, in Comedy Thriller
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Laucy Hale stars in Laura Murphy's (Awkwafina is Nora From Queens) upcoming comedy thriller, F Marry Kill.   Released by Lionsgate and produced by BuzzFeed Studios you can catch the flick in select theaters and on VOD/digital on December 6th....
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‘Juror #2’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Old-Fashioned and Morally Ambiguous Courtroom Drama
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Eastwood’s film casts a morally inquiring side-eye at the American legal system. The post ‘Juror #2’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Old-Fashioned and Morally Ambiguous Courtroom Drama appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Lausanne 2024 Review: MAKAMISA: PHANTASM OF REVENGE Confronts the Ghosts of Colonial Power through Subversive Silent Cinema
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Filipino provocateur Khavn de la Cruz reimagines colonial-era Philippines through a fractured cinematic lens, blending experimental visuals with silent cinema aesthetics to unravel a surreal and haunting exploration of history, violence, and national trauma. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Lausanne 2024 Interview: MAKAMISA: PHANTASM OF REVENGE Director Khavn de la Cruz on Punk-Surrealism and Total Cinema
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In the interview with Screen Anarchy, Khavn de la Cruz—a boundary-pushing Filipino filmmaker known for his avant-garde approach—opens up about his latest cinematic venture, Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge. Screened at the Lausanne Underground Film Festival, whre the film won the...
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“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions
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Among the most inspired choices for a 4K restoration this year would have to be Alan Rudolph’s Breakfast of Champions. Despite coming out in the middle of Bruce Willis’ Armageddon/The Sixth Sense heyday, the 1999 Kurt Vonnegut adaptation died a...
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