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A Plea for Someone to Save Megalopolis
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Dear France, Our culture is failing. It’s always failing. We worship the wrong things and ignore great stuff that’s right under our noses.  You know this about us. And you’ve often been there to say, “Hey, buddy—look down for a...
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First Footage from Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and Guy Maddin’s Rumours Arrive
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Rarely do we make note of single-digit seconds’ footage, but when it’s two films that ranked among our 50 most-anticipated films of 2024––one landing very high on that list––exceptions can be made. Just to say Bleecker Street Films have posted...
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Feminist May: Sebastián Lelio Rides “The Wave” with #MeToo Musical
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Some cool international film news dropping before Cannes unveils their line-up, Variety gets the exclusive scoop on a new Sebastián Lelio project flying off our radar. Production is now complete on The Wave — a musical inspired by the mass...
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IN FLAMES Review: The Supernatural Meets Patriarchal Conditioning
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The term 'gaslighting' is now quite ubiquitous, and one which still remains scoffed at by many (usually those who hold power). But if you're a member of a marginalized group, that gaslighting could come not just from one person, but...
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Explore the Sweet West in Trailer for the Ross Brothers’ Acclaimed Gasoline Rainbow
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
After rounding out a fruitful festival run that spanned Venice to last month’s First Look, Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross’s seventh feature Gasoline Rainbow opens on May 10, courtesy MUBI. Ahead of the road-trip movie’s theatrical debut, there is a...
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Arcadian Review: A Subdued Nicolas Cage Anchors Strikingly Effective Creature Feature
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
The film rockets toward an action-packed finale filled with inventive touches and effects work. The post <em>Arcadian</em> Review: A Subdued Nicolas Cage Anchors Strikingly Effective Creature Feature appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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The Sympathizer
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The unnamed narrator (Hoa Xuande) of “The Sympathizer” flees the fall of Saigon as a refugee and lands up in sunny Los Angeles in the late ‘70s. Like many immigrants in America, he suffers racist insults, works jobs he doesn’t...
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Interview: Ken Loach on The Old Oak, His Career, and Casting Light on the Abandoned
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
Loach discusses the connection between form and content throughout his body of work. The post Interview: Ken Loach on <em>The Old Oak</em>, His Career, and Casting Light on the Abandoned appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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The End of the World is Going to be Weird on Prime Video’s Quirky, Clever Adaptation of Fallout
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Adapting open-world games can be a great challenge for film and TV creatives because they don’t have the handy-dandy narrative skeleton to convey what made a game so successful. How do you adapt a game with such little storytelling structure...
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It’s Only Life After All
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
There's a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After All,” a documentary about the Indigo Girls. The duo (Amy Ray and Emily Saliers) have been performing together, after all, for 40 years. The phenomenon of the Indigo...
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