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‘Dandelion’ Review: Words Don’t Always Sing in Nicole Riegel’s Sophomore Feature
by admin|3 weeks ago|Slant Magazine
Around the edges of the central relationship, Dandelion is disappointingly diffused. The post ‘Dandelion’ Review: Words Don’t Always Sing in Nicole Riegel’s Sophomore Feature appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger’ Review: To the Archers, with Love
by admin|3 weeks ago|Slant Magazine
The film is a loving, personal tribute to the filmmaking duo known as the Archers. The post ‘Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger’ Review: To the Archers, with Love appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Sing Sing’ Review: A Humane, If Self-Aware, Look at Healing Through Art and Collaboration
by admin|3 weeks ago|Slant Magazine
This is a film of noble intentions, and it boasts vulnerable performances from its cast. The post ‘Sing Sing’ Review: A Humane, If Self-Aware, Look at Healing Through Art and Collaboration appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘The Convert’ Review: New Zealand Period Drama Nearly Succumbs to White Savior Syndrome
by admin|3 weeks ago|Slant Magazine
The film isn’t well served by centering the perspective of Guy Pearce’s white British preacher. The post ‘The Convert’ Review: New Zealand Period Drama Nearly Succumbs to White Savior Syndrome appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2024: Leos Carax’s ‘It’s Not Me’ and Abdellah Taïa’s ‘Cabo Negro’
by admin|3 weeks ago|Slant Magazine
It’s Not Me begins with a modest “I don’t know” as a riposte to a proposed riddle. The post Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2024: Leos Carax’s ‘It’s Not Me’ and Abdellah Taïa’s ‘Cabo Negro’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Fantasia 2024: Who Wears Short Shorts? We Wear Short Shorts! Wait. What? Shorts Programs Revealed
by admin|3 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
Ah shorts. Little bit and bites, snippets of genius, hunks of horror, stabs of action, and blips of wonder. They're just the perfect size for quick cinemantic digestion.    When Fantasia announced the final wave of feature film titles for...
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2024 Venice Classics Lineup Features New Restorations of Films by Antonioni, Wiseman, Hawks, Ōshima & More
by admin|3 weeks ago|The Film Stage
While its often the world premieres that get the most buzz out of any major film festival, look to their restorations lineup (if they are smart enough to have one), and a treasure trove of classics sure to be better...
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Friday One Sheet: FAYE
by admin|3 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
Lounging by the pool in a silk robe and stiletto heels at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1977, actress and style icon, Faye Dunaway is shown in a kind of Sunset Boulevard-esque tableaux the morning after she won the Academy Award...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Sergei Parajanov, Seven Samurai, Bruce Baille & More
by admin|3 weeks ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageA Sergei Parajanov retrospective has begun, while “See It Big at the ’90s Multiplex” includes Speed and Strange Days on 35mm. Anthology Film ArchivesA Bruce Baille...
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The Nature of Love
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into longing, self-searching, and passion. Sophia (a magnetic Magalie Lépine Blondeau), is a philosophy professor who is stably, but stagnantly in-like with her wealthy partner of 10 years, Xavier...
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