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The Novelist’s Films: Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
If Ceylan's previous films gave you the impression that he's making wordy filmed plays in a spectacular setting, 'About Dry Grasses' will surprise you. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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CRUST: Revitalized Anchor Bay Acquires Sean Whalen’s Debut Horror Comedy
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A depressed has-been child actor and owner of a dingy laundromat, becomes powerfully vengeful when his collection of lone socks transforms into a protective, cute, murderous monster named Crust. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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STOPMOTION Interview: Director Robert Morgan on His First Feature, Jan Švankmajer, Sleeping 24 Hours
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Robert Morgan is entering his fourth decade as a filmmaker and stop motion animator. In that time, he’s made some fantastically disturbing and multi-award-winning short films, most of them stop motion, and some live action. As someone who loves horror...
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Free Time Trailer: Colin Burgess, Rajat Suresh, Jessie Pinnick & More Search for Meaning in the Modern World
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
One of the most promising American indies of the year, Ryan Martin Brown’s Free Time brings together Colin Burgess, Rajat Suresh, Holmes, James Webb, Eric Yates, Jessie Pinnick, and Rebecca Bulnes for a story about a man rethinking his life’s...
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Foreign Language (Langue étrangère) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|3 months ago|Ioncinema
Tongues Untied: Love Lies Easy in Burger’s Cross Culture Coming of Age Drama There’s a lot going on in Claire Burger’s third film, Foreign Tongue (though the original French language title, Langue Étrangère, more simply means ‘foreign language’). It’s an...
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FilmSharks Signs Deals For NINE QUEENS 4K, BOOGEYMAN: THE ORIGIN OF THE MYTH, And THE RESTLESS WATERS, SHIVERING LIGHTS
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
With a couple more days left in this year's EFM our friends at FilmSharks have let us know about more deals they've secured in their time there. Two titles we've spoken about in recent months the other is the return...
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CONCRETE VALLEY Review: The Quiet Lives of Those Trying to Fit In
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Urban parkland can bring both solace and anonymity. For someone who is new to a place, connecting with their environment can be at once daunting and daring - the constructed landscape being one against which an immigrant is often antagonized,...
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Pepe | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|3 months ago|Ioncinema
Cocaine Hippo: de Los Santos Arias Explores an Assassination To say Pepe, the second narrative feature from Dominican director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias, is unclassifiable will likely be as much of a reason to dismiss it as it...
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Berlinale Review: A Traveler’s Needs is Hong Sangsoo’s Funniest Film in Years
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Two things can be true at once. The old debate over whether Hong Sangsoo’s cinema is overly earnest or self-aware was always a bit reductive––when the most light-hearted of the director’s films transcend, it is usually a result of both....
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Sam Mendes to Direct Four-Film Beatles Biopic Releasing in 2027
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Like a chimera of any intelligent person’s least-favorite storytelling models, we are (in the sense of a diagnosis) finally seeing the cinematic universe intersect with musical biopics. And where to start but the very biggest? Today brings the rather momentous...
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