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Pioneering Actor-Producer Terry Carter Dies
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Actor and producer Terry Carter has died in New York City. The former co-star of TV's “McCloud” and “Battlestar Galactica” was 95. Carter's death follows on the heels of Black male stars Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, Carl Weathers, Lou Gossett,...
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Cinema Femme Short Film Festival Preview
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The sixth annual Cinema Femme Short Film Festival will celebrate its second year of in-person events and screenings from April 25th to May 2nd. The festival’s ethos centers on uplifting up-and-coming female and non-binary filmmakers by platforming their work and...
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Andrew Ahn to Remake Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet with Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Following up Driveways and Fire Island, Andrew Ahn is nearing production on his next feature, a remake of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet. First confirmed to kick off production this May in Vancouver, The Cinemaholic reports the cast features Lily...
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Joanna Arnow on the Misconceptions of BDSM, Filming Comedy, and Conveying the Passage of Time
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
“Do you think people can change?” Ann (Joanna Arnow) asks her long-term dominant Allen (Scott Cohen) toward the beginning of Joanna Arnow’s second feature, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed. Told through a series of comic...
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Nowhere Special Review: Uberto Pasolini Crafts an Understated, Joyful Tearjerker
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
There’s not a lot of time left, but the adoption agency working with John (James Norton) is doing their best to maintain his belief that they will find the right place for his four-year-old son Michael (Daniel Lamont). Why is...
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25 Years Later, Alexander Payne’s Election Remains as Relevant as Ever
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
There’s an ongoing theme in Alexander Payne’s films -- the people we think are the antagonists aren’t actually bad people; we simply force ourselves into the corner of seeing them that way. From the simple-minded and unfortunately coiffed future in-laws in...
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Pieces of a Another Woman: Kornel Mundruczó Sets Up “At the Sea” with Amy Adams
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
In our second piece of news concerning a Hungarian filmmaker (and producer Alexander Rodnyansky), we’ve learned via the Deadline that Kornel Mundruczó has still got the Bostonian vibes and will boat out to At the Sea – a drama with...
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Jia Zhang-ke on Caught by the Tides, Personal Filmmaking, and Pop Music
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Jia Zhang-ke could fairly claim to be the most important filmmaker of his generation; he’d probably be the last person to do so. Audiences tend to scan Jia’s work for political sentiment, but the director has always attested that his...
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Divided Against Themselves: László Nemes Begins Production on Broken Family Drama “Orphan”
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
For his third feature (in a row), László Nemes is going back into the history books for his next project set to month into production this June. Set in 1957’s Budapest, Orphan follows a young Jewish boy whose mother has...
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ROBOT DREAMS Trailer: Pablo Berger’s Oscar-Nominated Ode To Friendship Arrives in May
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
One year after its Cannes premiere, the Oscar-nominee for Best Animated Feature Robot Dreams is finally making its way to U.S. theaters. The film had an awards-qualifying run way back in December (solidifying it as a 2023 film), and will...
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