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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Eye The Devil in the White City as Next Collaboration
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Martin Scorsese’s schedule has been uncertain of late. When we talked to Rodrigo Prieto in November he revealed they were supposed to be at work on a new project––not Home or Life of Jesus, which had both generated much heat...
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SXSW 2025 First Wave Lineup: New Films From Jay Duplass, Matt Johnson, Chad Hartigan, and More to Premiere in Austin
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The first round of the lineup for the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally here! The festival is scheduled to run in Austin, Texas from March 7 through 14. It will have 96 features in total, including 82...
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SXSW 2025 Announces Film & TV Festival Slate, Led By THE STUDIO
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"You're gonna need a bigger boat." Roy Scheider's quiet words when he first sees the shark in Steven Spielberg's Jaws came back to me when I opened my email and saw the film and television slate announced by SXSW for...
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Sundance 2025 Preview: Another Year of Exciting Films
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It's been a bit of a weird start to 2025, but festival season is kicking off in earnest with the traditional chilly celebration of indie film that is the Sundance Film Festival. The fest includes 88 feature films in this...
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Companion Review: Smug Sexbot Horror Feature is Low on Thrills
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In the fall of 2017 I worked at a media startup that covered the tech world. Having attended many tech conferences in that span of time, the panel that retains all these years later is one where I saw a...
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SEVEN VEILS Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Takes on the Opera in Atom Egoyan’s Psychological Drama
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Following its TIFF premiere in 2023, writer-director Atom Egoyan’s new film Seven Veils will finally be released in U.S. theaters. Reuniting with his Chloe star Amanda Seyfried, the psychological drama follows a theater director whose newest undertaking of the opera...
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Claude Lanzmann’s Monumental, Essential Shoah Returns with New Trailer and Poster Ahead of Berlinale Showcase
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As Berlinale contends and, even worse, complies with the German government’s censorship against expressing Palestinian liberation, the festival programmers are spotlighting perhaps the greatest cinematic work when it comes to illuminating historical persecution and genocide. Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour 1985 masterwork...
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Exclusive Trailer for Japan Society’s Nobuhiko Obayashi Series Highlights Six ’80s Films
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With a filmography both so vast as to be barely comprehensible and often reduced to the cult favorite House, Nobuhiko Obayashi remains a perpetual object for further study. Even my own familiarity with his corpus doesn’t leave room for everything...
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‘Inheritance’ Review: Neil Burger’s Vérité-Style Thriller Starring Phoebe Dynevor Falls Flat
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Inheritance’s bizarre mismatch of form and content mostly saps it of life. The post ‘Inheritance’ Review: Neil Burger’s Vérité-Style Thriller Starring Phoebe Dynevor Falls Flat appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum on Selling His DVD Collection, Championing Raúl Ruiz, and the Role of a Critic
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Widely considered one of the most important and prolific film critics in America, Jonathan Rosenbaum began his career in the 1970s writing film criticism for Sight and Sound, Film Comment, and the Village Voice before becoming chief critic of the...
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