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SENTIMENTAL VALUE Trailer: Renate Reinsve is at Odds with Stellan Skarsgård in Joachim Trier’s Cannes Sensation
by admin|2 days ago|Hammer to Nail
Four years after stunning the world with her Cannes-winning, breakout performance in The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve and director Joachim Trier reunite for their newest collaboration, Sentimental Value. The film made waves at the Cannes Film Festival,...
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Videoheaven Review: Alex Ross Perry’s Whirlwind Tour Through the Golden Age of the Video Store
by admin|2 days ago|The Film Stage
In Videoheaven, Blockbuster––to take after Thom Andersen––plays itself. Now deep in a pop-cultural-scholarship phase inaugurated by his last feature Pavements, Alex Ross Perry has made a generous, absorbing three-hour essay film-cum-documentary on nothing else but video-rental stores, those fabled and...
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The Running Man Trailer: Glen Powell is Hunted in Edgar Wright’s Stephen King Adaptation
by admin|2 days ago|The Film Stage
After a busy last summer with Hit Man and Twisters, Glen Powell is back this fall with Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man. With a cast also including Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee...
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The Unloved, Part 138: Rebel Moon
by admin|2 days ago|Roger Ebert
Reclaiming Zack Snyder's gargantuan sci-fi epic after it was abandoned on Netflix.
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Short Films in Focus: Q&A with “Living Reality” Director Philip Thompson
by admin|2 days ago|Roger Ebert
An interview with the director and star of the meta-sitcom short.
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A Dispatch From the Bentonville Film Festival
by admin|2 days ago|Roger Ebert
Looking in at the Geena Davis-founded film festival.
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Sentimental Value Trailer: Joachim Trier’s Cannes Winner Arrives This November
by admin|2 days ago|The Film Stage
Following the sensation that was The Worst Person in the World, Danish-Norwegian director Joachim Trier returned to Cannes Film Festival with Sentimental Value, a story of family and filmmaking that earned him the Cannes Grand Prix. Led by Renate Reinsve,...
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APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS Trailer: Petra Costa Documents Evangelicalism’s Rise in Brazilian Politics
by admin|3 days ago|Hammer to Nail
Following her 2019 Oscar-nominated documentary The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa continues to examine Brazil’s rocky politics in her newest film, Apocalypse in the Tropics. Having premiered on the festival circuit last year before America entered its second term...
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING
by admin|3 days ago|Hammer to Nail
(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week Brad Cook pops in...
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Evangelicalism Pervades Politics in First Trailer for Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics
by admin|3 days ago|The Film Stage
Even more frighteningly relevant than when I first saw it at the New York Film Festival last fall, prior to the new wave of Trump-fronted fascism, Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics lucidly explores how evangelical Christianity is inseparable from Brazil’s far-right...
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