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GHOST ELEPHANTS Interview: Werner Herzog and Dr. Steve Boyes Speak of Dreams, Ritual, and the Vast Mondo Wilderness
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Werner Herzog needs no introduction. He has been one of cinema's most fascinating and deliberate risk-takers for over five decades of extraordinary cinema. The enlightenments he discovers through his pursuit of the "ecstatic truth" are often intense and absurd in...
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10 Films to See in March
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The exhaustively extended awards season finally being over isn’t the only reason to celebrate this month. Led by my current frontrunner for the best film of 2026, there’s plenty of new releases to look forward to, also including a bold...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Our Immediate Reactions To The 2026 Actor Award Winners
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Last night, the Actor Awards (SAG-AFTRA) held their 32nd annual ceremony, honoring the best acting in film and television for 2025. For the fourth year in a row, the ceremony was streamed through Netflix. There were some heartfelt tributes and montages,...
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Berlinale 2026 Interview: IN A WHISPER Director-Writer Leyla Bouzid on Queerness and Her Narrative Approach as a Tunisian Filmmaker
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As a Tunisian queer filmmaker, one must exercise particular care when addressing an issue that remains deeply taboo in society to this day. Yet this does not prevent Leyla Bouzid from boldly portraying the increasingly precarious reality faced by homosexual...
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The 2025 Actor (SAG-AFTRA) Award Winners
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The Actor Awards (ACTOR), presented by SAG-AFTRA (and formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards – SAG) have announced their winners for the best in film and television acting for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY...
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Rotterdam 2026 Review: NO HIT WONDER Scores Quite A Few Hits
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Crack jokes all you want about the concept of German comedy films, but they exists and are often quite good. Case in point: Florian Dietrich's comedy No Hit Wonder, which played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year and...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast: Episode 481 – Actor Award Predictions, The PGA Winner, BAFTA Fallout, Paramount Buys Warner Bros. Discovery, “The Christophers, “Hamlet” & “Mortal Kombat II” Trailers
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For Episode 481, Amy Kim, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, and Ben Langford join me for a jam-packed episode two weeks before the 98th Academy Awards. We discuss the fallout from the BAFTA Awards, including the John Davidson controversy, the seismic news of Paramount purchasing Warner Bros. Discovery, the Producers...
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MICRO BUDGET Review: Taking Down Filmmaking From the Inside
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Most movies that go behind the scenes on a set to showcase the blood, sweat and tears that go into making movies treat filmmaking as a badge of honor.   Whether it's a documentary -- see Mark Borchardt in American...
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‘Heel’ Review: Jan Komasa’s Funny and Disturbing Thriller About the Fixing of a Bad Bloke
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The film basically imagines what My Fair Lady would look like if it had teeth. The post ‘Heel’ Review: Jan Komasa’s Funny and Disturbing Thriller About the Fixing of a Bad Bloke appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Salvation’ Review: A Multifaceted, If Sluggish, Exploration of Inter-Ethnic Conflict
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The weight of symbolism eventually drags the story down and stalls the characterizations. The post ‘Salvation’ Review: A Multifaceted, If Sluggish, Exploration of Inter-Ethnic Conflict appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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