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The Monk and the Gun Review: Bhutan’s Oscar Entry is a Too-Gentle, Offbeat Crime Caper Meets Political Dramedy
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There is very little written in the English language about the cinema of Bhutan, with only the broadest overviews of this still-emerging industry to be found at a glance. Not producing its first feature until the 1990s––and not producing one...
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Mia Wasikowska Wants to Purify Your Body in First Trailer for Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero
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Across her five previous features, Austrian director Jessica Hausner (Amour Fou, Lourdes, Little Joe) has developed a distinctly unique tone and now she’s back with her sixth outing, Club Zero. Led by Mia Wasikowska, the dark satire follows a nutrition...
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LA CHIMERA Trailer: Josh O’Connor Searches For Love & Treasure in Alice Rohrwacher’s Mystical Drama
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Josh O’Connor is on a surreal quest in Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. The otherworldly drama had its world premiere at last year’s Cannes, as well as screened at TIFF and NYFF. In her fourth feature after 2018’s Happy As Lazzaro,...
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Hit the Road in New Trailer for Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls
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The solo (narrative) directorial debut from Ethan Coen. A cast including Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Pedro Pascal, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, and Matt Damon. Cinematography by Ari Wegner. A logline best simplified as a lesbian roadtrip crime drama....
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FRIDA
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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Frida. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) experienced great physical suffering during her time on Earth, the result...
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Interview: Tran Anh Hung – The Taste of Things
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In the Cannes Best Director-winning, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) the passage of time is measured in teaspoons, tablespoons and table manners. Three decades after his playful exploration of the senses in The Scent of Green Papaya, Tran...
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DISCO BOY Review: Decidedly Human, Nuanced and Stunning
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Disco Boy, directed by Giacomo Abbruzzese, is about the search for independence and its subsequent consequences.  Aleksei/Alex (Franz Rogowski) is an illegal Belarusian immigrant in Paris, who enlists in the French Foreign Legion to legalize his stay. This trade has...
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Juliette Binoche on How to Be Original and the Connection Between Cooking and Acting
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Juliette Binoche has impeccable taste. The French actress, who has been gracing the screen for over four decades, continues to work with directors that push the envelope regardless of budget, recognition, or box office. From Claire Denis to Olivier Assayas,...
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U.S. Trailer for Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera Finds Josh O’Connor Digging for Treasure
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While Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny perhaps garnered more press out of Cannes Film Festival last year, it was another selection involving archaeologists and tomb raiders that will have a longer shelf life. Alice Rohrwacher’s latest feature La...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 527 – All of Us Strangers (with Jason LeRoy)
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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! On a new episode, Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by special guest Jason LeRoy to discuss Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, now in theaters and coming to...
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