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A Traveler’s Needs | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|Ioncinema

The Traveler Has Come: Huppert Shines in Latest Collaboration with Sang-soo There are few directors who seem to rightly channel the comic side of Isabelle Huppert’s unique strangeness than the perennial Hong Sang-soo. Having worked together on the lovely In...

Interview: Claire Fowler – Toad / 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|Ioncinema

Following a filmography comprising approximately eight short films just over a decade-span, with the most recent being the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival premiere “Salam,” along with television series work, British and U.S. based filmmaker Claire Fowler embarked on a project...

Colman Domingo Delivered the Best Performance of 2023 in Rustin, Will Receive AAFCA Award on February 21st

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|Roger Ebert

Colman Domingo burst onto the screen as civil rights leader Rustin Bayard in "Rustin," and his performance was so strong that I cannot stop thinking about it. Domingo nailed Rustin's vaguely mid-Atlantic accent, his ferocious drive and aching vulnerability. When he finds himself overcome with...

Raíz (Through Rocks and Clouds) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|Ioncinema

A Walk in the Clouds: Becerra Mines Escapism and Innocence in Quiet Drama A dwindling group of alpaca herders find themselves on the verge of violent displacement in Franco Garcia Becerra’s sophomore film Through the Rocks and Clouds. In essence,...

Lost in Translation Gets Deluxe Double LP Vinyl Release; Marie Antoinette Documentary in the Works

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|The Film Stage

It’s a good time to be a Sofia Coppola fan. Alongside last fall’s release of one of her finest films, Priscilla, we got an expansive book detailing her career. Now we have two new updates related to other peaks of...

My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|Ioncinema

Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné continues his steady, perennial output with the humanist melodrama My New Friends. Though its English language feels a bit trite, the original French language...

Berlinale Review: With The Empire, Bruno Dumont Delivers a Slack, Soaring Space Oddity

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|The Film Stage

Playing his signature brand of rural French absurdity in stark counterpoint to the grandiose strains of a space opera, Bruno Dumont returns with The Empire: his Barbarella bourguignon, his dijionnaise Dune. The Empire is the story of two warring factions:...

Berlinale Review: Sleep with Your Eyes Open Vividly Captures the Migrant Condition

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|The Film Stage

Tucked deep into Don DeLillo’s Underworld is an exchange between the novel’s protagonist, Nick Shay, and one of his teachers, a Jesuit priest. It concerns language. The priest, to make a point about the boy’s abysmally poor vocabulary, taunts him...

FilmSharks Inks Deals For OLVIDO (FORGOTTEN KILLINGS) And LOBO FEROZ at EFM

by admin|3 months ago19 February 2024|Screen Anarchy

Our friends at FilmSharks continue to bust out sales for Lobo Feroz, the Spanish language remake of Big Bad Wolves. The latest comes during EFM where they sold the UK rights to BINGO FILMS. Before that it was sold to...