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Fantasia 2024 Review: TATSUMI, A Gritty Yakuza Street Drama With A Broken Heart
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I am happy that these kinds of gritty, but emotionally tragic crime films are still being made. Hiroshi Shôji’s Tatsumi is one of those skuzzy neighborhood dramas, the kind soaked in poverty, spit, blood, and tears. Where the crime feels...
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Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: GRAND TOUR, A Cinematic Travelogue Blending Past and Present
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The Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes merges genres, time periods, and cinematic techniques to create a post-modern exploration of cinema's fluid nature, offering a sophisticated and reflective homage to the art form that challenges conventional narrative boundaries. [Read the whole post...
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Elijah Wood and Ant Timpson on the Childlike Charms of Bookworm
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Looking back at their last collaboration, 2019's bloody cult horror hit "Come to Daddy," you'd be surprised to see New Zealand writer-director Ant Timpson and actor-producer Elijah Wood turn their attention to a charming family-adventure flick. But "Bookworm," which just premiered as...
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2024 NYFF: RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” Selected as Opening Night Film…Heading to Telluride/Venice?
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London BFI have Steve McQueen’s Blitz and San Sebastian Film Festival tied up Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle, we now have the NYFF folks pitching their tent naming RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys as Opening Night Film. This is not the film’s world...
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TIFF 2024 Adds Films by Mike Leigh, Joshua Oppenheimer, Gia Coppola, Justin Kurzel & More
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The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled their lineup of 63 films from the Gala and Special Presentations programs. Notable titles include the world premieres of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and The Last Showgirl, the North American premieres...
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THE DEAD THING: New Poster Debuts Ahead of World Premiere at Fantasia
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A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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62nd New York Film Festival Will Open With RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys
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One of our most-anticipated films of the year is set to open the 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival. Film at Lincoln Center announced today that RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys will kick off the festival on September 27....
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2024 Venice: Aude Léa Rapin & Lawrence Valin Bookend + Bernhard Wenger, Alexandra Simpson & Muhammed Hamdy in Venice Intl. Critics’ Week Comp
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While tomorrow is the big daddy of announcements for the fall film festival season, this morning, we learn the identity of the nine feature films that will populate the Settimana Internazionale della Critica section which, much like the Critics’ Week...
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Fantasia Review: Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks is an Uninspired Horror Mishmash
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There’s been a bit of mystery surrounding Shelby Oaks, the directorial debut of Chris Stuckmann. A YouTuber who got his start reviewing films and has now amassed over two-million subscribers, Stuckmann pursued his goal of becoming a full-fledged filmmaker, got...
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Fantasia 2024: ESCAPE ATTEMPT, Short Film Short Review
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In the future Saul hitches a ride with Anna and Vadim, a young couple on their way off planet for a vacation. Saul requests that they simply drop him off at the nearest uninhibited planet. He says he's done with...
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