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2025 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
The 2025 Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 2, and as always, 15 short films compete across 3 categories—animation, documentary, and live action—for the golden statuette in their respective areas. Every year, I watch all of them and then...
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Berlinale Review: Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail Takes a Lively Journey Down the Amazon River
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The Blue Trail, the lively new film from Gabriel Mascaro, takes its name from the secretions of a mythical snail. Azure and oozing, the substance, when dropped on the iris, is rumored to grant a vision of things to come....
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Errol Morris Untangles a Web of Conspiracy in First Trailer for CHAOS: The Manson Murders
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
After watching Zodiac Killer Project, it’ll be hard to view any true-crime mystery documentary the same way again. But if there’s one filmmaker who could pull it off, it’s Errol Morris. Just a few months after this last documentary Separated,...
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‘The Blue Trail’ Review: In Gabriel Mascaro’s Vivid Road Movie, It’s No Country for Old Women
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
The film is an empowering narrative of one woman who refuses to see age as a ceiling. The post ‘The Blue Trail’ Review: In Gabriel Mascaro’s Vivid Road Movie, It’s No Country for Old Women appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Ebertfest Adds Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award Winner “Harlan County U.S.A.”
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Three more films have been added to the Ebertfest line-up.
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Now Streaming: Takeshi Kitano’s BROKEN RAGE, Robert De Niro’s ZERO DAY
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Plus: 'Reacher' and 'Surface' return, 'Watchmen: Chapter II' comes home again. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Berlinale 2025 Review: HOT MILK, Angry Daughter, Flighty Lover, Manipulative Mother on Vacation
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez, and Patsy Ferran star in director Rebecca Lenkiewicz's film about a daughter who uncovers secrets about both her lover and her mother. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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‘Compensation’ Review: A Century-Spanning Celebration of Black Self-Expression
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
The film is a startling vision of two eras shaped in literal and cultural ways by Black people. The post ‘Compensation’ Review: A Century-Spanning Celebration of Black Self-Expression appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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LOUDER THAN YOU THINK: A LO-FI HISTORY OF GARY YOUNG AND PAVEMENT
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
(Check out Don Lewis’s movie review of Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary and Pavement Jed I. Rosenberg’s doc on the early days of the band Pavement. It’s available now to own or stream via Factory 25. Seen it?...
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GRAND TOUR Trailer: Miguel Gomes’ Cannes-Winning Odyssey Arrives in March
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Miguel Gomes, the Portuguese filmmaker behind Tabu, Arabian Nights, and The Tsugua Diaries, is back with a black-and-white-shot odyssey that toggles eras, cultures, and styles. Grand Tour, billed by MUBI as a “melodrama and screwball comedy with a cat-and-mouse chase...
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