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Awards Calendar: The 2025 – 2026 Awards Season
by admin|1 year ago|Next Best Picture
Here we go! It’s that time of the year again! With the announcement of the Gotham Award nominations yesterday, and as we start the month of November, we are embarking on the most exciting phase of awards season: the precursors!...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interviews With “Ballad Of A Small Player” Stars Colin Farrell, Fala Chen & Director Edward Berger
by admin|1 year ago|Next Best Picture
“Ballad Of A Small Player” is a British psychological thriller directed by Edward Berger and written by Rowan Joffé, adapted from Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel of the same name. The film stars Academy Award-nominee Colin Farrell as Lord Doyle, a...
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Playback: Yorgos Lanthimos, Disorder and Discomfort, from KINETTA to BUGONIA
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Yorgos Lanthimos delights in discomfort. Lanthimos built a career on ritualized absurdity and moral distortion, spinning stories where love, control, and social order are pushed to the brink of the surreal. From Dogtooth's domestic isolation to Poor Things's sexually-charged, Frankensteinian...
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Two Decades, Dozens Of Oscars, But Still No Best Picture Win: Will “Hamnet” Be The First For Focus Features?
by admin|1 year ago|Next Best Picture
While Netflix gets the most attention for never having won a Best Picture Oscar, Focus Features is by far the most decorated studio never to win one. Yet after 20+ years of many more near misses than Netflix, and after...
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COEXISTENCE, MY ASS!
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Check out Chris Reed’s Coexistence, My Ass! movie review, it’s in theaters now! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Noam Shuster-Eliassi is an Israeli comedian and politically progressive activist. A self-described “brown Jew,” she is the daughter...
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Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
I participated in a virtual roundtable for the film this past weekend just before yesterday’s Gothams nominations announcement where Bugonia (read our Venice review) was nominated for Best Feature category yet omitted Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for Outstanding Lead...
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The 2025 Camerimage International Film Festival Lineup
by admin|1 year ago|Next Best Picture
The 33rd EnergaCamerimage Film Festival has announced the lineup for its prestigious Golden Frog competition, celebrating excellence in cinematography. This year’s festival will run from November 15th to 22nd in Toruń, Poland. Among the high-profile contenders are Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners“ starring Michael B. Jordan, Joseph Kosinski’s “F1: The Movie“ starring Brad Pitt and Damson...
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Apple TV Sends Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson “Down Cemetery Road” in Stylish Fashion
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
This is powerfully entertaining stuff, filled with satisfying twists and turns.
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Soi Cheang on Directing Action, Twilight of the Warriors Sequel, and the Future of Hong Kong Cinema
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
If not quite so known as many of his Hong Kong contemporaries, Soi Cheang has mastered nearly every genre and style for which the national cinema is so beloved. While early cult favorites New Blood or the Johnnie To-produced Accident...
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STAR WARS: VISIONS, Volume 3 Review: Ronin, Rebels, and Rebellion- Star Wars: Visions Returns in Style
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
When the first volume of Star Wars: Visions came out in 2021, the collaboration with Japanese anime studios just made sense. The first movie from 1977 was heavily influenced by Japanese cinema, and with a deep history of animation in...
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