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Teodora Ana Mihai’s ‘Heysel 85’ – Everything We Know So Far…
by admin|2 weeks ago|Ioncinema
We first became aware of Romanian-born filmmaker Teodora Ana Mihai through her 2021 film La Civil, which screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and earned a specially created Prize of Courage. Blending documentary and fiction, she most recently explored...
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Tribeca 2025 Review: THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN, A Compassionate Portrait of a Complex Man
by admin|2 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
There is no filmmaker quite like Andy Milligan. A connoisseur of the depraved and debaucherous, Milligan’s lot in life was troubled, but out of the pain he suffered beginning in his youth he managed to create a unique oeuvre that...
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A Conversation with Fawzia Mirza (THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS)
by admin|2 weeks ago|Hammer to Nail
Filmmaker Fawzia Mirza’s feature directorial debut, The Queen of My Dreams (which I reviewed back at SXSW 2024), opens June 20, 2025, after a long and successful festival run. A charming meditation on identity and culture—queer, Pakistani, and Muslim—the film...
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The B-Side Ep. 164 – Mike Leigh (with Alex Heeney)
by admin|2 weeks ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss Mike Leigh, one of our greatest living filmmakers....
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A Conversation with Kathleen Chalfant & Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
by admin|2 weeks ago|Hammer to Nail
Familiar Touch represents a unique entry in cinema’s exploration of aging and dementia, offering a perspective rarely seen on screen: that of the person living with the condition rather than the family members watching from the sidelines. Director Sarah Friedland’s...
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ASH Review: Bloody Nightmare in Space
by admin|2 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais, Kate Elliott, and Beulah Koale star in the latest from Flying Lotus. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Interview: Sarah Friedland & Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch
by admin|2 weeks ago|Ioncinema
A work-in-progress participant at the 2023 American Film Festival in Wroclaw (which turned out to be a vintage edition with Indie Donaldson’s Good One and Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point also being selected) Sarah Friedland was putting the...
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Interview: Eva Victor on Finding Joy in Control While Making ‘Sorry, Baby’
by admin|2 weeks ago|Slant Magazine
The writer-director-actor discusses how the film is in conversation with other depictions of sexual assault. The post Interview: Eva Victor on Finding Joy in Control While Making ‘Sorry, Baby’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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F1: THE MOVIE Review: Brad Pitt’s Star Vehicle Revs Up Hyperkinetic, Hyper-Stylized Action
by admin|2 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
On a fundamental level, a glossy, big-budget, star-driven film centered on Formula One racing like Joseph Kosinski’s (Top Gun: Maverick, Oblivion, Tron: Legacy) latest film, F1: The Movie (hereinafter “F1”), falls broadly into a modern-day version of the “cinema of...
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J. Hoberman on 1960s New York, Protests, Alternative Press, and Sinners
by admin|2 weeks ago|The Film Stage
To paraphrase Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis: Wasn’t I lucky to come of age in my favorite city? For one thing, my impressionable undergraduate years fell during J. Hoberman’s tenure as lead film critic of the Village...
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