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Meeting with Pol Pot Review: Rithy Panh’s Languid, Incendiary Cautionary Tale

by admin|1 year ago11 June 2025|The Film Stage

In 1978, journalist Elizabeth Becker was one of three westerners granted permission to enter Cambodia while under the communist rule of the Khmer Rouge. “We were all conscious of our role as singular witnesses of the revolution,” she writes in...

‘Sham’ Review: Miike Takashi’s True-Crime Drama Puts the Truth Itself on Trial

by admin|1 year ago11 June 2025|Slant Magazine

The film is a human drama that skirts topicality to ruminate on the nature of truth itself. The post ‘Sham’ Review: Miike Takashi’s True-Crime Drama Puts the Truth Itself on Trial appeared first on Slant Magazine.

EDDINGTON Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal Face Off in Ari Aster’s Pandemic Paranoia Western

by admin|1 year ago10 June 2025|Hammer to Nail

After working together on the polarizing, yet mindblowing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix are back together for the former’s fourth feature. Eddington, fresh off its world premiere at Cannes, is a Western set in 2020 during the...

BACKSIDE

by admin|1 year ago10 June 2025|Hammer to Nail

(The Tribeca Festival runs June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out Chris Reeds’s Backside movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For...

A Ring to Herself: Lila Pinell Begins Filming on ‘Shana’ with Eva Huault and Noémie Lvovsky

by admin|1 year ago10 June 2025|Ioncinema

It’s a debut solo feature debut film we’ve been tracking after French filmmaker Lila Pinell claimed the Grand Prix prize at the Prix du Scénario 2025 back in February, and managed to snag producers in Ecce Films’ Emmanuel Chaumet and...

Tribeca 2025 Review: CUERPO CELESTE, Highs and Lows, Amplified By Shifting Tides

by admin|1 year ago10 June 2025|Screen Anarchy

Helen Mrugalski comes of age in Nayra Ilic Garcia's Chilean drama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Tribeca 2025 Review: PEOPLE AND MEAT, Korean GOING IN STYLE Goes Dine and Dash

by admin|1 year ago10 June 2025|Screen Anarchy

Park Keun Hyong, Jang Yong, Ye Su Jeong star in director Yang Jong-hyun's lighthearted, occasionally meaty tale. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Tribeca Review: Holding Liat Tells the Story of One Family Through a Mosaic of Political Views

by admin|1 year ago10 June 2025|The Film Stage

The first words we hear in Brandon Kramer’s Holding Liat are spoken, over the phone, by a person named in the subtitles as “Israeli Army liaison.” In this short call the male voice tells a perturbed 70-ish man that his...

A Conversation with Alex Mallis & Travis Wood (THE TRAVEL COMPANION)

by admin|1 year ago10 June 2025|Hammer to Nail

We’ve all seen a bad Q and A after a film screening. They’re awkward, often they overstay their welcome, and inevitably someone has to ask, “what camera did you use?” If you go to a lot of film screenings they...