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by admin|5 months ago27 November 2024|Hammer to Nail

(DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, runs November 13 through December 1 (in-person and online) for its 15th edition. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Yalla Parkour. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)...

MOANA 2 Review: Stellar Animation, Wobbly Storytelling, Middling Outcome

by admin|5 months ago27 November 2024|Screen Anarchy

Repurposed from a limited series initially intended for Disney’s streaming platform, Moana 2, an eight-years-in-the-making sequel, arrives in movie theaters with the usual expectations associated with big-screen Disney fare: vividly realized, sometimes stellar animation, relatively well-drawn, well-rounded, arc-driven characters, and...

2024 Eurimages: Maryam Touzani, Emily Atef, May el-Toukhy & Kaouther Ben Hania Land Coin

by admin|5 months ago27 November 2024|Ioncinema

The results of the third Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of filmmakers we find the likes of Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters) who firmly moved back into fiction with Tu...

Criterion Releases Gorgeous Box Set for Their 40th Anniversary

by admin|5 months ago27 November 2024|Roger Ebert

Here's the gift idea for the film lover in your family.

Gaucho Gaucho Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw on Mythology, Compositions, and Community

by admin|5 months ago27 November 2024|The Film Stage

Three gauchos on horseback gallop across an Argentine landscape, their connection to their animals and their surroundings palpable. In a crumbling church, an elderly gaucho confers with a parish priest, worried that his life has lost its meaning. A young...

The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)

by admin|5 months ago27 November 2024|The Film Stage

Happy Thanksgiving from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today, for our 150th (!) episode, we are thankful for...

Sujo Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry From Identifying Features Team Arrives Next Week

by admin|5 months ago27 November 2024|The Film Stage

One of the more formally impressive features I saw at Sundance earlier this year was the latest from Identifying Features team Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez. Sujo, which picked up a Sundance Grand Jury Prize and was named Mexico’s Oscar entry,...

Maria | Review

by admin|5 months ago26 November 2024|Ioncinema

Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy recuperation of her last week of life in Maria, the third in a series of...

SUJO Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry Explores the Life of a Young Man in Cartel Land

by admin|5 months ago26 November 2024|Hammer to Nail

Sujo, the latest visceral drama from directing duo Vernanda Faladez & Astrid Rondero (Identifying Features), spans decades in the life of a boy growing into a man in the shadow of the cartel. It premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film...