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Berlinale Review: Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-Winning Dahomey Is a Fulminating Story of Restitution and Liberation
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
In 1953, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet produced Statues Also Die, one of the fiercest and most lucid indictments of white imperialism ever captured on film. Commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine, it sought to dissect Western attitudes...
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Streaming Ads Are So Much Worse Than Traditional Ad Breaks
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
I have Spectrum Wi-Fi and cable service at home, and it offers “free” on-demand movies, so I called one of them up recently: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.” Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen this 14-year-old...
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American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found in a scene at the Sheraton Hotel in West Virginia that was so hideously bloody that one of the respondents reportedly fainted. With multiple slash wounds to his...
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Shogun
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
With the current abysmal streaming landscape where shows are thrown onto services to collect dust like old VHS tapes, it’s impossible not to feel like TV has been in need of shows that feel like an event. The times of...
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A Farewell from Our Literary Editor, Matt Fagerholm
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Matt Fagerholm has been a gem to work with at RogerEbert.com, and I am simultaneously sad to see him go, while overjoyed for him about the project he is undertaking. This Farewell Article contains some of his best work. Onward...
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Interview: Sara Crow & David Rafailedes / Satoshi – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
On the day that this conversation took place, Sara Crow and David Rafailedes were on their way to a reception to accept one of the Sloan Development Fellowships—an artist grant supporting projects in development involving technology. However, as we spoke,...
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Rotterdam 2024: What The Audiences Liked Best
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Three weeks ago, Rotterdam was about to wrap up its International Film Festival, and a few days after that they published the final results of their audience rating ballots. These, to me, are always at least as interesting as the...
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2024 Independent Spirit Award Winners: ‘Past Lives’ Wins Best Feature & Best Director (Full List)
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
The blue carpet rolled out on Saturday and many of the year’s best independent films were recognized at the 39th Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Barbara, California. A24’s Past Lives took home Best Feature just moments after its writer-director Celine...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Who Do I Belong To, Memories Of A Burning Body, Sons
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
In Berlin’s Main Competition and its Panorama section are three films centering mothers: the worries they have about their children, the memories of their lived experiences, and the ache they feel when they lose a child. These maternal stories are...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Demba, The Strangers’ Case, Black Tea
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Syria and Turkey, the Ivory Coast and China, Senegal, and a smidge of America are the countries these three films take place in. With this globetrotting dispatch is a story about a husband grieving the memory of his wife, Middle...
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