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THE CROW: SDCC Poster And Clip
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Soulmates Eric (Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on...
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Interview: Sean Wang on Applying Cinematic Language to the Internet in ‘Dìdi’
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
Wang discusses what the Sundance Directors’ Lab taught him about the film’s toughest scene. The post Interview: Sean Wang on Applying Cinematic Language to the Internet in ‘Dìdi’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Claude Schmitz’s The Other Laurens Plunges Into Seedy Neo-Noir
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Likely the world doesn’t have enough neon-tinged, French-Belgian neo-noirs, making welcome the arrival of The Other Laurens. Claude Schmitz’s 2023 Directors’ Fortnight premiere has been acquired by Yellow Veil Pictures for a U.S. release, and ahead of the film’s August...
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Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is 215 Minutes, Presented in 70mm Across 26 Reels
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Six years after Vox Lux, Brady Corbet is finally returning with his next feature The Brutalist. Led by Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola, it’s shaping up to...
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Friday One Sheet: THE SECOND
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
This beautiful watercolour poster for Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos's The Second is hiding a subtle secret in plain sight. The short film centres around a pistols-at-dawn kind of duel, and the underlying complexity of motivations across two generations. The lead...
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Only the River Flows Review: A Small Town Neo-Noir that Balances Empathy and Melancholy
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Wei Shujun’s detective noir Only the River Flows (based on a story of the same name by Chinese author Yu Hua) is set in a small town along a river in China’s Jiangdong province where it seems the sun never...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Mexican Popular Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville, Playtime on 70mm, Bresson & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA retrospective of Mexican popular cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s is underway. Film ForumA career-spanning Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective has begun; restorations of Ann Hui’s July Rhapsody (watch our...
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The Fabulous Four
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
If you're a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you're typically cast as Batman’s sidekick or a WWII veteran who escapes from assisted living (Michael Caine), God or a grieving father (Morgan Freeman), a brilliant psychotherapist or Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford),...
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The Last Breath
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And “The Last Breath” is a cheesy new thriller that is even dumber than a real shark. Not that it features any real sharks — the predatory creatures here...
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The Girl in the Pool
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The suburbs are hell. That's what the movies keep telling us. Perfect nuclear families living in their McMansions are often anything but perfect. It's not exactly new cinematic territory, but it's a well that gets tapped often because it's just...
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