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Laceno D’Oro Review: Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari Entrancingly Explores the Histories of Science, Cinema, and War
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If you played Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari at 20-times speed it would be like watching complex organisms dissolve into blunter forms of matter. As it moves glacially but decisively through nearly three-and-a-half hours of footage––some soothing, some shocking, some otherworldly––it starts...
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The Great Craft of 2024
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Incredible achievements of 2024 in cinematography, editing, art direction, original music, and more.
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Sony’s “Frank Capra at Columbia” 4K Box Set Encapsulates One of America’s Great Filmmakers
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A review of Sony's sprawling new box set of 21 films from the Golden Age master's time at Columbia Pictuers.
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The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)
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Happy Holidays from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss the incomparable Al Pacino with the returning...
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Ankit Jhunjhunwala’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. The best film I saw in 2024, Alain Guiradie’s new masterpiece Misericordia, will sadly not...
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“Squid Game” Returns with Sharp Filmmaking, New Ideas in a Transitional Season
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"Squid Game" is back and ready for some new games.
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Interview: Philippe Lesage – Comme le feu (Who By Fire)
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The adults in the room may be battling for dominance, but in the end, it’s the one who considers the long-term consequences and deeper implications who truly claims the last word. Comme le feu (aka Who by Fire) delves into...
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Guy Pearce on the Egoism of The Brutalist and Why Brady Corbet’s Epic Earns Its Runtime
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A benefactor to Adrien Brody’s architect character László Tóth, the patronage of Guy Pearce’s wealthy Harrison Lee Van Buren eventually metastasizes into something far darker as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist examines balances of power and privilege. Giving one of the...
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NOSFERATU Review: Robert Eggers’s Vision Of The Vampire Falls Flat
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An undead fiend lusts after a distraught waif in Nosferatu, Robert Eggers’s languid retelling of one of horror cinema’s most influential texts. Thomas (Nicolas Hoult) is an ambitious and newly married real estate agent eager for promotion when his boss,...
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Lucia Senesi’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. It is almost impossible, or so it seems to me, to have a conversation about...
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