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The B-Side Ep. 164 – Mike Leigh (with Alex Heeney)
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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss Mike Leigh, one of our greatest living filmmakers....
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A Conversation with Kathleen Chalfant & Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
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Familiar Touch represents a unique entry in cinema’s exploration of aging and dementia, offering a perspective rarely seen on screen: that of the person living with the condition rather than the family members watching from the sidelines. Director Sarah Friedland’s...
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ASH Review: Bloody Nightmare in Space
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Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais, Kate Elliott, and Beulah Koale star in the latest from Flying Lotus. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Interview: Sarah Friedland & Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch
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A work-in-progress participant at the 2023 American Film Festival in Wroclaw (which turned out to be a vintage edition with Indie Donaldson’s Good One and Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point also being selected) Sarah Friedland was putting the...
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Interview: Eva Victor on Finding Joy in Control While Making ‘Sorry, Baby’
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The writer-director-actor discusses how the film is in conversation with other depictions of sexual assault. The post Interview: Eva Victor on Finding Joy in Control While Making ‘Sorry, Baby’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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F1: THE MOVIE Review: Brad Pitt’s Star Vehicle Revs Up Hyperkinetic, Hyper-Stylized Action
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On a fundamental level, a glossy, big-budget, star-driven film centered on Formula One racing like Joseph Kosinski’s (Top Gun: Maverick, Oblivion, Tron: Legacy) latest film, F1: The Movie (hereinafter “F1”), falls broadly into a modern-day version of the “cinema of...
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J. Hoberman on 1960s New York, Protests, Alternative Press, and Sinners
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To paraphrase Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis: Wasn’t I lucky to come of age in my favorite city? For one thing, my impressionable undergraduate years fell during J. Hoberman’s tenure as lead film critic of the Village...
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ELIO Review: Pixar’s Latest Stirs Heart and Senses in Equal Measure
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For moviegoers of a certain vintage, Elio, Pixar’s latest addition to its stellar-level animated output, will feel comfortably, nostalgically familiar.   Centering as it does on a starry-eyed preteen dreamer, Elio pays respectful homage to family-oriented 70s and 80s Amblin...
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New to Streaming: Friendship, Final Destination Bloodlines, An Unfinished Film, and More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. The Annihilation of Fish (Charles Burnett) Essentially a lost film, legendary director Charles Burnett’s...
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Emulsion Episode Eight: The Jag and Familiar Touch
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I’ve spent my offline hours producing The Jag, a new play that runs from June 21 to July 6 at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. Even without some of my fingerprints, this makes a curiously cinema-centered creative team: directed...
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