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Locarno 2024 Interview: Denis Côté on Defying Filmmaking Norms, Upcoming Simp Movie, Embracing Artistic Freedom, Navigating Life After a Kidney Transplant
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
The Canadian filmmaker talks embracing DIY approach, refusing the Hollywood road, three new projects and another kind of cinephilia. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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The Becomers
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don't think too deeply about. Science fiction movies can do the same, but in a more exaggerated fashion, revealing the surreal eeriness of the "normal."  You can see this dynamic...
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C. Mason Wells on the Complex Creation of Between the Temples
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Those who’ve followed Nathan Silver and Chris “C. Mason” Wells’ careers might find themselves bewildered in recent months. Compelling enough that their latest collaboration, Between the Temples, premiered at Sundance with at least three major figures (Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane,...
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Apple TV+’s Pachinko Expands Its Narrative Palate For An Emotional Season Two
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
One of the shining jewels of Apple TV+'s lavish yet underseen output—"Ted Lasso" and "Severance" aside—"Pachinko" stood out in 2022 as one of the most layered, complex shows on the streamer. An epic, novelistic tapestry woven through generations of a...
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BLINK TWICE Review: The Gift? Of Laughter and Forgetting
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
The ritual of Catholic confession has never felt quite right to me; to each their own, but the idea that you can simply say some words that apparently mean you repent for some sins and that gets you into your...
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The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its first hour, Tina Mabry’s “The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat” is a bubbly, melodramatic story about the multi-decade friendship shared by three Black women. Based on Edward Kelsey Moore’s...
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NYC Weekend Watch: The Spook Who Sat By the Door, Greed, The Holy Girl, Vertigo on 70mm & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMThe controversial, remarkable The Spook Who Sat By the Door plays in a new restoration. Roxy CinemaFidelio, our four-film program with Chapo Trap House’s Movie Mindset, has an encore with Eyes...
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Hell Hole
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother Toby Poser, and daughter Lulu Adams—are some of the most fascinating horror filmmakers on the scene. Get thee to a streaming service and watch “The Deeper You Dig”...
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THE CROW Review: Don’t Call It a Reboot, Call It a Reimagining
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
After spending the better part of two decades parked in development purgatory, the long-mooted remake, reboot, and/or reimagining of James O’Barr’s comic-book series/comic strip, The Crow, makes a belated, somewhat anticipated appearance in the nation’s multiplexes just as the summer...
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Between the Temples
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from the shofar. If you haven’t heard it before, imagine the sound of someone slumped forward in the driver’s seat, face pressed against the steering wheel, and you’ll be...
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