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A Conversation with Ramona Diaz (AND SO IT BEGINS)
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Director Ramona Diaz (A Thousand Cuts) premiered her latest documentary about the Philippines, And So It Begins, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival (where I reviewed it). In the movie, Diaz covers the 2022 presidential election in that country, embedding...
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THE NATURE OF LOVE Review: A Tale of Romance, Philosophy and the Power of Classic Love Ballads
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Magalie Lépine-Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal star in French-Canadian writer-director-actor Monia Chokri's sexy new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sound And Vision: Ti West
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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Justin Timberlake's No Angels, directed by Ti West. Ti West is obsessed with several themes, among them hedonism and the hive-mind...
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Longlegs Review: Frigid Serial Killer Procedural Plays Too Clean
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As FBI agents mention the final book of the Bible, one calls it “Revelations.” Then “semi-psychic” Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) corrects them. “Revelation. Singular,” she says, eyes glued to the ground as she pivots past, but not toward, the camera....
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Ride Again with Criterion’s 50th Anniversary Release
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Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” has about it an air of abeyance, of incompletion spurred by decades of mythology and rumor about its troubled production, contentious post-production, and the personal demons plaguing a director whose prickliness and...
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​Time to Bloom: KiKi Layne on Dandelion
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In “Dandelion,” a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter (KiKi Layne, “If Beale Street Could Talk”) is looking for a way to make music for a living when, while performing at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota, she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a...
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KVIFF 2024: Wrap-up and Awards
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I love film festivals. It’s as simple as that. You go, usually to a far-flung location, a place on a map that appears unreal at first, to see movies before anyone else. Some are big titles starring glitzy names made...
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KVIFF: A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, Stranger, Rude to Love
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No matter how many films I see at a festival, I almost always miss the big prize winner. It’s almost as if the jury is purposefully picking the one film I either haven’t seen or had never heard until their...
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The Secret Art of Human Flight
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Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah (Reina Hardesty) died suddenly, leaving him in a state of shock. He forgets to eat, he forgets to sleep. Stuck in a neverending stupor, he forgets to take...
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THE SECRET ART OF HUMAN FLIGHT Review: Indie Dramedy About Grief, Hope and Effective Techniques for Alienating Neighbours
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Directed by H.P. Mendoza, the film stars Grant Rosenmeyer, Paul Raci, Maggie Grace, Lucy DeVito, and Sendhil Ramamurthy. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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