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Cannes Review: Sean Baker’s Anora is a Devastating, Gut-Busting Beauty
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Up to this point, Mikey Madison––the fearless, explosive 27-year-old lead of Sean Baker’s Anora––is best-known for her chilling turn as the deranged killer in the 2022 Scream reboot. Before that she was the shrieking Manson girl in the finale of...
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Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Having sprinkled his films in the competition section twice before with Les chansons d’amour (2007) and Sorry Angel (2018), Christophe Honoré has also populated the fest with Un Certain Regard, Out of Comp and Directors’ Fortnight offerings. With Marcello Mio,...
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Cannes 2024 Review: In THE SECOND ACT, Quentin Dupieux Continues to Amuse
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Quentin Dupieux’s new film The Second Act (Le deuxième acte) opened the 77th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival. It’s noteworthy that it’s a Netflix co-production and, although this could mean that Dupieux eventually reaches many more people, there’s...
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Fantastic Start to Fourth Season of Evil Maintains Creepy Quality
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
“Doesn’t it seem like these assignments are getting weirder?” There’s no program on television more wonderfully weird than “Evil.” Even the journey of this show’s broadcast has been incredibly weird: It started on CBS, moved to Paramount+, recently dropped two...
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A Conversation with Bertrand Bonello (THE BEAST)
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Bertrand Bonello is a multi-hyphenate talent in the film industry. The acclaimed filmmaker is also a producer, composer and actor. His films have been associated with the movement known as New French Extremity. Bonello actually got his start in music...
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An Anime Landmark Returns In Trailer for Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence‘s 4K Restoration
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
It’s opportune timing for a 4K restoration of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, the only anime feature to debut in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The 20 years since that premiere have been kind to Mamoru Oshii’s film,...
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First Footage From Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me Reflects on a Visionary Career
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Aside from Jean-Luc Godard’s last film, one of the shortest premieres at Cannes Film Festival that was among our most-anticipated is Leos Carax’s 40-minute cine-memoir It’s Not Me. While our review of the latest work from the Holy Motors and...
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SOLO Review: Love that Elevates, Love that Destroys
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
How can we know what makes us happy? More importantly, how can we trust the people around us to make us happy, support us in our happiness, provide us with the love and care we deserve? And how can we...
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Cannes Review: The Hyperboreans is Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s Warning Against Political Amnesia
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
“We humans are capable of greatness,” reads the first line in Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s The Hyperboreans as the narrator’s voice beams from an old TV set. On the screen, a hypno wheel spins and spins; the voice speaks...
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West Side Oratory: Judas and the Black Messiah
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
As I type this essay, students across the country are encamped in university quads. Protesting American Imperialism, by way of protesting their universities’ investments in war profiteers. They are most vocal about the final obliterations of Gaza. As a longtime...
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