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‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ Review: Matt Johnson Catches Lightning in a Bottle
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The film offers a joyous throwback to the optimistic feeling of the early internet creator era. The post ‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ Review: Matt Johnson Catches Lightning in a Bottle appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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A Conversation with David Shadrack Smith & Jake Fogelnest (PUBLIC ACCESS)
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Director David Shadrack Smith just premiered his feature-documentary debut, Public Access, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival where I reviewed it. The film showcases all the wild, vibrant, and very weird content that proliferated on New York City’s Manhattan Cable...
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Wuthering Heights Review: A Highly Sexualized But Oddly Square Adaptation
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Is the sight of the human tongue really so shocking? Were 1996 audiences ducking in their seats à la L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat when Matthew Lillard kept jutting his out like a jackass in Scream? Judging...
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Rotterdam Review: The Misconceived is an Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life
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Seven years after collaborating on The Plagiarists, writers James N. Kienitz and Robin Schavoir return with The Misconceived—another incisive, inventive movie about the anxieties faced by the never-quite-made-it creative class. Directed by Peter Parlow, that earlier film played with the...
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Exclusive Trailer for Micro Budget Finds Bobby Moynihan, Chris Parnell, Maria Bamford, Jon Gabrus & More Making a Disaster
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We’re pleased to exclusively announce that Factory 25, the celebrated Brooklyn-based independent film distribution company, has acquired world rights to distribute writer/director Morgan Evans’ feature directorial debut Micro Budget. With a notable cast of comedians, including Bobby Moynihan, Chris Parnell,...
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I Will See You In Dreams: Akinola Davies Jr. on “My Father’s Shadow”
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The filmmaker discusses the visual language of dreams, collaborating with his brother, and the difficulty of transporting film in and out of Lagos.
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Rotterdam 2026: BAZAAR (MURDER IN THE BUILDING), On Lions in the Highlands, Or, The Eternal Life of Alfred Hitchcock
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With Bazaar (Murder in the Building), Rémi Bezançon delivered the intended closing film of IFFR: a playful homage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. One of Hitchcock's finest films, Rear Window, is about watching, listening, and cinema itself. Photojournalist Jeff, accustomed to...
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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: Alice Rohrwacher on Cinema as Future Archaeology and the Politics of Experimentation
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Alice Rohrwacher reflects on her collaborative practice, myth-infused realism and the production realities shaping contemporary European auteur cinema. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Rotterdam 2026 Review: I SWEAR Is The Ultimate Crowd Favorite
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This year's winner of the Audience Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam is I Swear, Kirk Jones' biopic about John Davidson. To say it is a crowdpleaser is an understatement: from hundreds of votes, the film got a mean...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Pillion” Stars Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård & Filmmaker Harry Lighton
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“Pillion” is an erotic comedy drama film written and directed by Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novel “Box Hill” by Adam Mars-Jones. The film stars Harry Melling as a timid gay man and Alexander Skarsgård as an enigmatic biker...
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