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Architecton | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|3 months ago|Ioncinema
Judgment in Stone: Kossakovsky Gazes Into the Concrete Jungle Celebrated documentarian Viktor Kossakovsky explores our complex relationship with concrete in the abstract visual feast, Architecton. For those familiar with his previous explorations, such as 2020’s Gunda, in which we follow...
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Berlinale Review: Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara Superbly Examines Paradoxes of Intimacy
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
The films of Canadian director Kazik Radwanski are freedom in its purest form, or the purest this particular medium can contain. Being the opposite of prescriptive, they sculpt themselves according to interpersonal dynamics that can otherwise be invisible, and by...
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#478 February 20, 2024
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Matt writes: Our Editor at Large Matt Zoller Seitz recently posted a very well-received essay entitled, "Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like 'Coyote vs Acme' Should Be a Crime." You can read the article in its entirety here, and...
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A Traveler’s Needs | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|3 months ago|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...
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Interview: Claire Fowler – Toad / 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
by admin|3 months ago|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...
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Colman Domingo Delivered the Best Performance of 2023 in Rustin, Will Receive AAFCA Award on February 21st
by admin|3 months ago|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...
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Raíz (Through Rocks and Clouds) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|3 months ago|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,...
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Lost in Translation Gets Deluxe Double LP Vinyl Release; Marie Antoinette Documentary in the Works
by admin|3 months ago|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...
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My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|3 months ago|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...
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Berlinale Review: With The Empire, Bruno Dumont Delivers a Slack, Soaring Space Oddity
by admin|3 months ago|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:...
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