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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Demba, The Strangers’ Case, Black Tea
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
Syria and Turkey, the Ivory Coast and China, Senegal, and a smidge of America are the countries these three films take place in. With this globetrotting dispatch is a story about a husband grieving the memory of his wife, Middle...
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2024 Berlin Film Festival Winners: Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” Wins The Golden Bear (Full List)
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
After two weeks of new cinema, the Berlin International Film Festival came to a close with its annual awards ceremony. This year’s festival created buzz with many exciting new titles, among them being Tim Mielants’ opener Small Things Like These...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: The Roundup: Punishment, Last Swim, Through The Rocks And Clouds
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
Not every dispatch has a unifying theme; this one is more of a hodgepodge. Among the three films is the latest installment of a highly successful Korean action franchise, a coming-of-age character study of a British-Iranian girl battling suicidal ideations,...
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: 13 BOMBS Brings Fire And Noise
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
The International Film Festival Rotterdam is know for its slant towards new talent, often featuring low-budget arthouse cinema from all over the world. But the festival sometimes also shows the big-budget blockbusters from countries of which the output almost never...
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Interview: Kristine Gerolaga / Lamok – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
by admin|3 years ago|Ioncinema
Further proof that the Sundance Institute’s Labs have made a firm commitment to include projects that fall in just about every genre, one of the filmmakers to find a sweet spot with the group is Kristine Gerolaga and her forthcoming...
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Une Famille | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|3 years ago|Ioncinema
A Letter to Daddy: Angot Continues Confrontation of Incest In short, there is no way to rate a film like Une Famille, the debut documentary feature from celebrated writer Christine Angot. It is an uncomfortable confrontation with both the surviving...
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They Shot the Piano Player
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba, who co-directed “They Shot the Piano Player,” first encountered the work of the film’s subject, Brazilian keyboardist Francisco Tenorio Júnior, in a record store twenty years ago. Trueba was so enraptured by the music that he...
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Martin Scorsese Hopes His Jesus Film Will Provide a Universal Sense of Peace, Not Answers
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
After his Oscar-nominated epic Killers of the Flower Moon and a sci-fi Super Bowl ad, Martin Scorsese will return to the realm of faith for his next project. We recently learned his adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s A Life of Jesus, which...
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A Conversation with Maggie Greenwald (THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO)
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Veteran director Maggie Greenwald made what many, including her, consider her most-celebrated work, The Ballad of Little Jo, in 1993. Now, 30 years later, courtesy of Kino Lorber, there comes a brand-new Blu-ray release featuring an HD master of the...
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Shambhala | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|3 years ago|Ioncinema
Defending Your Life: Bham’s Captivating Quest Follows Its Own Path The journey is the destination in Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bam’s graceful sophomore film, Shambhala, a simple narrative about complex reckonings. The title is a name derived from Sanskrit, meaning...
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