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‘The Nature of Love’ Review: A Funny, Nonjudgmental Look at Sexual Exploration
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Monia Chokri’s film engages with the stylings and bubbly tonality of the classic rom-com in ironic fashion. The post ‘The Nature of Love’ Review: A Funny, Nonjudgmental Look at Sexual Exploration appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Chattanooga 2024 Review: BLIND COP 2 Parodies ’80s Action Flicks to Diminishing Returns
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During VHS’s all-too-brief Golden Age (roughly the ‘80s through the ‘90s), you could step into any neighborhood video store, peruse the stacks of new releases, and leave an hour later with any number of low-budget, straight-to-video action titles of varying...
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CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT Interview: Director Tomás Gómez Bustillo Talks His Magical Ghost Story
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Tomás Gómez Bustillo wears glasses and a warm but reserved smile. The second this young director realizes he is speaking to another Argentine, we switch to Spanish, and his sentences become longer, peppered with curses, as we like to do....
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Chattanooga 2024 Review: THE VOURDALAK Delivers a Different Kind of Vampire Tale
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Long considered the ur-text for the depiction of vampirism in fiction, Bram Stoker’s Dracula may be the most influential (the “trope-creator”), but it was far from the first. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel, Carmilla, preceded Stoker’s by more than two decades,...
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Interview: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on the Feminism of ‘The Devil’s Bath’
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Franz and Fiala discuss how their main character’s struggles relate to the present world. The post Interview: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on the Feminism of ‘The Devil’s Bath’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Listen to Eiko Ishibashi’s Score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist
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Likely many reading this have already seen Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, which is more than a month into a theatrical run. It’s only now that Eiko Ishibashi’s magnificent score’s been released, but timeliness is not much issue when,...
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A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE Review: A Bold Step Forward In A Solid Series
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The marauding aliens with the very keen hearing are back in the third installment of the A Quiet Place film series. A Quiet Place: Day One takes us back to the beginning of the crisis that became a surprise hit...
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DELICATE ARCH Exclusive Clip: This Person Sees Only One Way Out
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Matt Warren's supernatural thriller, Delicate Arch, is having its world premiere at Dances With Films tonight.   We have an exclusive clip to share with you today. The clip features a sole man wandering through the desert until they come...
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“Who Let Me Film That?”: Catherine Breillat on Last Summer, Philosophy of Love, and Legacy
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New York audiences might be the luckiest cinephiles this summer: French legend Catherine Breillat’s newest gem of a film Last Summer not only opens theatrically this weekend, but they were treated to a retrospective of the director’s work at Film...
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Interview: Catherine Breillat on the Layers and Transgressions of ‘Last Summer’
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Breillat discusses image-making and intimacy, scandal and subversion, denial and desire. The post Interview: Catherine Breillat on the Layers and Transgressions of ‘Last Summer’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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