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S. Craig Zahler’s 10 Favorite Films of 2023
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
We recently learned that five years after Dragged Across Concrete, S. Craig Zahler will soon announce his next feature. In the meantime, the director has unveiled his favorite music, books, and––most pertinent to this site––films he watched in the past...
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Death and Other Details Wastes Potential on Neverending Cruise
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
One of the biggest problems of the “my TV show is really just a long movie” era of television is that it has created a common problem wherein a script’s worth of plotting is stretched out to the length of...
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We’re So Short on Time: John Sayles on Lone Star
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
John Sayles’ films are indicated by the quality of his listening. His scripts are dialogue-dense and populated by people of character and intelligence, representing every social strata, every race, every creed. He puts them in conversation with one another, and...
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Sound And Vision: Jane Schoenbrun
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Lucy Dacus' Night Shift, directed by Jane Schoenbrun. It is no secret I identify as queer. This part...
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Driving Madeleine Review: One Last Pleasant Drive Through the City of Light
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
And so the “life-changing cab ride” sub-genre expands with Driving Madeleine, directed by Christian Carion and starring Line Renaud and Dany Boon. One likes to imagine this new film exists in the same universe as all of the rest. Somewhere...
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CLEARMIND Review: Taking an Axe to Therapy
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Nora (Rebecca Creskoff) is going through a rough patch. Still reeling from the loss of her young daughter and the breakup of her marriage, she’s trying out a new form of therapy to cope. Said therapy involves the annual tradition...
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2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards: Sam Green’s 32 Sounds Lands Best Picture – Oscar Nom Next?
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Sam Green‘s 32 Sounds took the top honor of Best Feature at the 2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Will this acknowledgement help raise the film’s profile for next week’s Oscar voting? The doc which premiered at the 2022 edition of...
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INSHALLAH A BOY Review: A Situation To Crack Under
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Last year, the Cannes Film Festival crowds screened its first ever Jordanian film, and simultaneously, the debut of director Amjad Al Rasheed. Inshallah A Boy is about the hypocrisy of vultures in times of grief, the societal constraints of a...
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Song Kang-Ho Attempts to Make His Masterpiece in U.S. Trailer for Kim Jee-woon’s Cobweb
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Premiering in competition at Cannes Film Festival last year, Kim Jee-woon reunited with long-time collaborator Song Kang-Ho for Cobweb. Capturing the star as a filmmaker frantically trying to finish the movie he believes will be his masterpiece, the film was...
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2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows: Dozen Projects & 16 Participants for the Class of ’24
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Sixteen fellows with a dozen projects (out of 3,400 submissions) will be headed to the mythic bunk beds and cabin life of Utah just prior to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. Here their words on paper will be tested, tried...
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