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Hey UK and Ireland! Go See MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO in Cinemas Now!
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Here in the States, we are very much enjoying your raucous Northern Irish film Kneecap, which our own Olga Artemyeva described as "bold, entertaining and boisterous - both as a cinematic piece and as a statement. It is also genuinely...
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2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate
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We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d’Or winner Anora) items with a Golden Lion Venice quintet in Dea Kulumbegashvili‘s April, Brady Corbet‘s The Brutalist, Athina Rachel Tsangari‘s Harvest,...
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NYFF62 Main Slate Lineup: New Titles From Mike Leigh, Brady Corbet, David Cronenberg, and More
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After announcing its Opening Night, Centerpiece, and Closing Night selections, the New York Film Festival has announced the full Main Slate lineup for its 62nd edition. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, this year’s Main Slate sections will screen the...
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62nd New York Film Festival Main Slate Features Mike Leigh, Julia Loktev, Sean Baker, David Cronenberg, Brady Corbet & More
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The best-curated film festival of the year has unveiled its first complete section. The 62nd New York Film Festival has dropped its Main Slate lineup, featuring surprise world premieres from Julia Loktev and Robinson Devor, along with the latest from...
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2024 TIFF: Kulumbegashvili, Zilbalodis, Lojkine, Soderbergh, Rankin & Sofia Bohdanowicz in Centrepiece Programme
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It’s year two for the Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s Centrepiece programme – the place where we find films from the film festival circuit as old as this year’s Sundance and as fresh as the future film premieres to be found...
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‘Daughters’ Review: A Quietly Devastating Portrait of Girls and Their Incarcerated Fathers
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The importance of touch between a parent and child looms large over nearly every scene. The post ‘Daughters’ Review: A Quietly Devastating Portrait of Girls and Their Incarcerated Fathers appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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SDCC 2024: Activations, Apes and Other Animals
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San Diego Comic-Con is known for its activations, and the best of 2024 were, by far, presentations by Paramount+ and 20th Century Fox. Outside the San Diego Convention Center, for the second year in a row, Paramount+ used Happy Does...
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Popcorn Frights 2024 Kicks Off Thursday: Macabre Delights Abound
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Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Popcorn Frights Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with the world premiere of Beezel and the Florida premiere of Strange Darling. The festival will be a hybrid experience, presenting both in-theater and virtual film offerings, running...
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Short Films in Focus: Welcome to the Enclave
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Sarah Lasley’s sneaky and unsettling “Welcome to the Enclave” starts out looking like an overly corporate and sterile intro video for a virtual suburban neighborhood one can visit online. The music sounds like it’s straight out of an iMovie effects...
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I Saw the Sixth Sense Knowing the Big Twist, and Loved It Anyway
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"The Sixth Sense" is the movie that made its writer-director M. Night Shyamalan a cultural force, and he's been one ever since. It's also the movie that stereotyped him as a filmmaker whose work is dependent on plot twists. If you reading...
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