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New York 2024 Review: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, Striking Tale of Violence and Moral Compromises
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Iman (Misagh Zare) has just gotten the much-desired promotion, but asks his family to keep quiet about his new job: he is now an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. So, while the very real protests against the...
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NEW WAVE Review: Vietnamese-American Music Ripples Close to Home
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Like waves that come crashing on the seashore, except they keep crashing. New Wave The film enjoyed its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. The film opens Friday, October 4, at DCTV in New York, and October 25 at Laemmle...
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DAAAAAAL! Review: Dancing Between the Real and the Imagined
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Quentin Dupieux directed. Anaïs Demoustier, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, Didier Flamand, and Romain Duris star. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Conversation with Sinéad O’Shea (BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY)
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Irish documentarian Sinéad O’Shea (Pray for Our Sinners) has a new film out, Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, which just premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival—aka TIFF—where I reviewed it. As per the title, it offers a...
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FRANKIE FREAKO Review: Gooey, Chaotic, Freaky Family Film With a Twist
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A painfully bland office worker gets his world turned upside down by a trio of tiny cosmic weirdos in Steven Kostanski’s latest gonzo comedy, Frankie Freako. After he hit cult comedy gold with 2021’s Psycho Goreman, Kostanski and his usual...
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THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT Review: Engaging and Confusing, In Equal Measure
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A pair of siblings on the run after a robbery take refuge in a house with mysterious time-warping qualities, only to find that the law isn’t the only thing they have to fear. Things Will Be Different, the latest from...
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New York 2024 Review: NO OTHER LAND Chronicles Living Under Occupation
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The suffering of people in this film is staggering, but so is their resilience. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Lingering Influence: Meryem Benm’Barek Filming ‘Behind the Palm Trees’
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A project initially scheduled for a 2023 shoot has finally been greenlit, with Cineuropa confirming that Meryem Benm’Barek has been filming her sophomore feature since midway point last month. Behind the Palm Trees stars Sara Giraudeau and Driss Ramdi in...
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Fantastic Fest 2024 Review: MADS, Wide-Eyed Descent Into Apocalypse
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One of my favorite films of Fantastic Fest 2024 was this taut piece of single-take cinema from France. An already high teen visits his dealer hoping to score the latest designer drug. But before he can get to the ,...
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V/H/S/BEYOND Interview: Director Kate Siegel And Their Star Alanah Pearce
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With the streaming premiere of V/H/S/Beyond coming up this Friday we were fortunate to spend a moment speaking Kate Siegel, director of the segment, the sci-fi horror short Stowaway. We were joined by their lead actress and a multi-hyphanite herself, Alanah...
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