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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Lynne Ramsay, Abdellatif Kechiche & Jessica Palud Among 11th Hour Film Options?
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
The films from the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections are now on firm grounds and as we anticipate the unveiling of the Cannes Short Film Competition and Cannes Classics selections, there’s also anticipation surrounding those last additions to the...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Love Streams, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ozu & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaOur House of Tolerance 35mm presentation returns on Friday, while a print of the James Dean-led Giant shows this Saturday alongside prints of Twilight and Half Baked; Decoder also screens. Paris...
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New Trailer for 4K Restoration of Time of the Heathen Captures a World After the Atomic Bomb
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
While Christopher Nolan recently directly explored the creation of the atomic bomb, a long-lost 1961 film explores the landscape directly after the dropping of the bomb in uniquely expressionistic fashion, set against the racial politics of the decade. Helmed by...
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Man on the Moon Is Still the Cure for the Biopic Blues
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Andy Kaufman doesn’t want you to watch his biopic. At the start of “Man on the Moon,” Kaufman (played by Jim Carrey) appears on screen, addressing us directly, using the squiggly voice he’d wield on stage and on “Taxi.” “I...
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We Grown Now
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now” is a film masterfully tied to the emotive potential of place. A period piece centered in Cabrini-Green in the early '90s, the film is as Chicago born and bred as the characters it loves throughout...
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THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE Review: Real-Life WWII Superspies Get the Guy Ritchie Treatment
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
With three films in four years, Guy Ritchie (Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Wrath of Man) has proven himself nothing if not prolific, specifically of broadly appealing, easily digestible, ultimately forgettable entertainments. As surface-deep as...
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Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver” that makes the movie and its franchise seem essential? Director and co-writer Zack Snyder has already tried to whip up his fanbase by teasing “R-rated” versions of the...
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Jia Zhangke and Bi Gan Voice a Coming-of-Age Tale In Exclusive Trailer Debut for Liu Jian’s Art College 1994
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
If you see one animated Chinese film this year, we suggest it’s Art College 1994. Liu Jian’s feature, featuring the voices of Jia Zhangke and Bi Gan, will make its theatrical debut next week at Metrograph, which will also screen...
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Blood for Dust
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs and guns over the border with Canada, "Blood for Dust" is a hard, nasty crime thriller about hard, nasty men. Directed by Rod Blackhurst from a script by David Ebeltoft,...
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Dusk for a Hitman
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director Raymond St-Jean has a sturdy central character—though the crime drama is based on the real life of Montreal fixer Donald Lavoie, much of it is fictional—made stronger through...
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